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MPA Academy Relaunches Flagship Port Management Programme Virtually For 29 Maritime And Port Officials
The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA)’s Academy welcomes 29 senior maritime and port officials, including port masters, harbour masters and middle management personnel from maritime and port authorities from 23 countries and the International Maritime Organization, to participate in the seventh Port Management Programme (PMP) from 30 August to 2 September 2021. The …
Cainiao Enters Partnership With FairPrice Group Supply Chain Business Unit To Strengthen Logistics Services In Singapore
Cainiao Network, (“Cainiao”), the logistics arm of Alibaba Group, announced today its partnership with Grocery Logistics of Singapore (“GLS”), an entity of FairPrice Group Supply Chain business unit, with the aim of strengthening its logistics services in the market. This partnership entails a two-phase roll-out, namely providing a full-suite local logistics service from customs clearance to last-mile …
ST Engineering Makes Senior Position Hire
ST Engineering today announced that it has appointed Tan Lee Chew as President Commercial and also as a member of the Group Executive Committee, effective 1 September 2021. Reporting to Group President & CEO Vincent Chong, Lee Chew will oversee and drive growth for the Commercial cluster, which comprises three business areas: Commercial Aerospace, Urban …
Changi Airport In focus As East Coast GRC Grassroots Organisations And Advisors Acknowledge Aviation Frontliners
Changi Airport Group and Changi General Hospital also ink Memorandum of Understanding Advisers to East Coast GRC GROs, Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat, Minister Dr Maliki Osman, Minister of State Tan Kiat How, Ms Jessica Tan and Miss Cheryl Chan showed their appreciation for aviation industry frontliners during a visit to Changi Airport today. The …
Sembcorp Industries Launches Singapore’s First Sustainable Financing Framework For The Energy Sector
Sembcorp Industries (Sembcorp) today announces the launch of Singapore’s first sustainable financing framework for sustainability-linked transactions for the energy sector. The Sembcorp Sustainable Financing Framework (Framework) lays out Sembcorp’s strategic approach, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Sustainability Performance Targets (SPTs) for its sustainability-linked transactions. Sembcorp may now issue sustainability-linked bonds, sustainability-linked loans or any other …
Skills-Based Volunteerism To Grow Through Partnerships In The Medical Sector With Singapore Medical Association
The Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth (MCCY)’s Singapore Cares Office (SG Cares Office) will further grow skills-based volunteerism, through a new partnership with the Singapore Medical Association (SMA). Skills-based volunteerism refers to utilising one’s profession skills and expertise to serving the community. To achieve a greater reach, the SG Cares Office has inked a …
NParks Opens Singapore’s First Centre For Wildlife Forensics
Today, the National Parks Board (NParks) opened Singapore’s first Centre for Wildlife Forensics (CWF). The Centre will strengthen NParks’ detection and diagnostic capabilities by drawing upon expertise across NParks to identify and analyse specimens involved in the illegal wildlife trade. A new K9 Unit that will help to uncover illegal wildlife and wildlife products at …
Behind The Scenes | CapitaLand INSIDE Visits The Tesla Showroom 🔌 🚗
Raffles City Singapore hosts a new electric showcase. A couple of years ago, if you had mentioned the word ‘electricity’ and ask someone to think of a name beginning with the letter T, the answer might probably be Thor. These days, there’s a new T in town. We’re talking about Tesla. The famous electric car …
Cashiers Need To Be Compensated With Wage Premium To Handle Cash Payments: NUS Study
New research has shown that cashiers would need higher wages for handling cash, as compared to card, to compensate for the stress of counting the wrong sum. This trade-off between wages and stress has implications for future job design. The research by the National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School was published in the peer-reviewed …
Digital Plan Introduced To Help Process Construction & Maintenance Industry Build New Capabilities
More than 500 businesses and 30,000 employees can now leverage the Process Construction & Maintenance (PCM) Industry[1] Digital Plan (IDP) to build digital capabilities and mitigate some of the current challenges faced by the industry. Jointly led by Enterprise Singapore (ESG) and the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), in partnership with the Association of Process Industry (ASPRI), the …