Singapore - The entertainment and media (E&M) market in the Asia-Pacific region is forecast to grow quickly over the next five years particularly in China and India, a published study said Mond

Singapore based GIC Special Investment has bought 25.4% equity stake in Reid & Taylor.

Singapore - Hopes dimmed Saturday for finding a sailing trainee alive who fell off his vessel without a life jacket into choppy seas off Singapore.

Singapore - Renovations to a research institute will turn the facility into Singapore's first zero-energy building, news reports said on Saturday.

Singapore - Game development school DigiPen opened a campus in Singapore Friday, its first outside the United States.

Singapore - Average investors will soon have a new index providing more information on which to base decisions regarding 700 companies on the Singapore Exchange, organizers said Thursday.

The index will be compiled by the centre for investor and corporate responsibility, one of four centres within the new Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics.

It will provide a ranking similar to credit ratings, said Associate Professor Jeremy Goh, one of the centre's co-directors.

Using publicly available information, Goh said, "We will evaluate companies on components such as disclosure and transparency, role of stakeholders, treatment of minority shareholders and the rights of such shareholders."