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Data scientists see largest pay growth in tech: Report

The pay of software engineers dipped 0.99% in 2023 compared with an 11.3% surge for data scientists.

Credit Suisse takes fight over $1 billion awarded to billionaire to Singapore’s top court

S’pore, Hong Kong woo family offices with different game plans

Firms in South-east Asia looking to grow face funding gap as late-stage capital dwindles

askST Jobs: What is needed for career progression besides performing well?

When high-earning women take on ex-husbands in court

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When high-earning women take on ex-husbands in court

As the women were the main breadwinners and children's caregivers, they kept the lion's share of the families' assets

Why spouses who work harder will get more in divorces

Europe’s Granolas stocks may offer a healthy alternative to US Big Tech

Tenants may find lower rents for condo units as vacancies rise

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Property

Shophouse tenants left $400,000 poorer after ending lease unilaterally

How tenants can end their leases legally

Why using ‘loopholes’ to invest in property doesn’t pay

How two parents planned to evade ABSD but ended up losing their properties

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Geopolitics, data flows cast long shadows over investor sentiment

Europe’s Granolas stocks may offer a healthy alternative to US Big Tech

The US dollar poised to be stronger for longer

Europe is now ‘clear-eyed on China’

In Good Company

Johnson Controls’ US$15m CEO does his own laundry, and dishes

Watching his mother fight with adversity helped prepare Mr George R. Oliver for his own challenges.

Forget Fomo – it’s all about Fobo now, says Egon Zehnder chairman

Cold logic and warm sense of humour: How Carl Hess powers Willis Towers Watson

How does a man who’s never been to college run US$18b Accenture Song?

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S'pore Companies

High Court orders Falcon Energy to wind up after multiple failed restructuring attempts

Falcon Energy suspended the trading of its shares more than five years ago on the back of a debt overhaul.

Quarz, ESR reach resolution over alleged defamation during Sabana internalisation bid

Singapore shares end in the red as regional markets slide; STI falls 0.5%

Singapore stocks rise on positive sentiment amid regional rally; STI up 0.4%

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