Foreign banks need to be in joint ventures to access much of the trading in China, while in Singapore, for instance, they dominate more than 50% of the market's trade.
Executives in New York would enroll in a program in New York, while those in London or Singapore would attend a school there.
"I am not thinking about all the different scenarios, I am just going out to race and to win if I can, " pledged Hamilton, who played it safe last time out by picking up six points in Singapore while Massa failed to score.
Yale has a campus in Singapore, while Carnegie-Mellon has one in Silicon Valley.
The Indosuez fund manager has slightly increased his Malaysian holdings, while keeping his heavy investment in Singapore.
But while SPH holds the monopoly in Singapore's newspaper market, it's finding that AsiaOne faces fierce competition from other portals operating there.
Eng-Siong Tan, 36, Thai-Wey Then, 28, and Vui-Chiap Lam, 27, started it as a pet project in 1997 while working for Singapore's government.
Chinese buyers slipped to the No. 2 spot last year, representing 22% of foreigners buying homes in Singapore, while Malaysians reclaimed the top spot with 26%.
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Norway already requires that financial services firms record calls and Spain is apt to be next in Europe, while Switzerland and Singapore are looking at introducing mobile recording regulation.
Merrill analyst Dave Anders cited a comprehensive growth plan from Harrah's Entertainment, which is vying to break into the gaming markets in Singapore and Macau while incrementally drawing more customers to Vegas though its highly regarded rewards program.
Merrill analyst Dave Anders cited a comprehensive growth plan from Harrah's Entertainment (nyse: HET - news - people ), which is vying to break into the gaming markets in Singapore and Macau while incrementally drawing more customers to Vegas though its highly regarded rewards program.
Ironically, while Singapore's restraints fostered creativity in the trio's early years, the less inhospitable political climate at present has contributed to their artistic flowering too.
This means that while the worst might be over for banks in Singapore, things are only now starting to get bad for some of the Hong Kong banks.
Southeast Asia is home to 600 million people and has a growing middle class, while Singapore has the highest concentration of millionaire households in the world and a burgeoning pool of private high-net-worth investors.
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While the Las Vegas market is saturated resulting in lower profitability, Singapore continues to battle slow economic growth and tighter administrative restrictions on gambling.
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Valencia and Singapore will hold races for the first time in 2008, while Abu Dhabi will enter the fray in 2009 followed by South Korea a year later.
While Sands China reported close to 40% growth in revenues for the first quarter, Singapore revenues declined despite a 40% increase in rolling chip volumes.
Instead they would look at countries like China, Singapore, Hong Kong, while the more daring ones may put money in Vietnam, even if they may be worried about the macroeconomic situation there.
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Meanwhile, scientists from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have invented a new toilet that turns human waste into electricity while reducing the amount of water needed for flushing by up to 90 percent.
The first BNP Paribas hedge fund center, opened at the London Business School (LBS) in 2001, examines investment strategies, while a second institution, opened at the Singapore Management University last year, looks at Asian funds.
While Singapore's official government residential-property indexes show that prices edged up in the city-state last quarter from the quarter before, property consulting company CBRE Group Inc.
In Singapore, clients of the country's three largest banks use smart cards, while commuters pass the plastic through electronic readers to get on buses or commuter trains.
While the damaging effects of "crash-gate" were discussed extensively under Singapore's darkening skies, many in F1 were unwilling to comment publicly on the punishment doled out by the FIA in Paris on Monday.
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