DBS Vickers is offering a brokerage fee of only 0.18% or a minimum sum of $18 for buying local stocks. This is significantly cheaper than the next cheapest brokerage fee which is offered by Citibank at $22. Apart from that, brokerages usually charge $25 as the minimum sum for each transaction and the DBS Vickers is offering a good deal indeed.
The only catch here is that you must put cash upfront in your brokerage account first before making any purchase of stocks. This will mainly affect people who do trade on contra but it will not affect investors who take a long term view on their purchase of stocks.
Personally, I am quite tempted by this offer indeed and I may open an account with DBS Vickers. After all, there are no charges involved in opening a brokerage account but I'm wondering if other brokerages will respond with a similiar offer soon.
The link to the official webpage can be found here.
SINGAPORE: Singapore’s Casino Regulatory Authority says it is reviewing " more than a handful’’ of junket operators to see if they can be given licences to work with the casinos here.
Junket operators usually have strong connections and bring in high rollers.
They act as middlemen and provide credit as well, usually earning a commission based on the amount gambled by the high rollers.
Reports say that in Macau alone, high rollers brought in by junket operators account for almost 70 percent of the industry’s total revenue.
In 2009, Las Vegas Sands chairman Sheldon Adelson said he did not think the Singapore government would allow any junkets.
However, the CRA has never had an outright ban.
Keeping information on such operators close to its chest, CRA refused to say if any licences would be given out by the end of this year.
Speaking to the media at the CRA’s change of command on Wednesday, its outgoing chief Mr T Raja Kumar said checks have to be stringent to prevent organised crime.
He said: " When we do probity checks, we are checking for suitability in terms of the individuals who are involved in the industry as well as check the source of funds to make sure they are legitimate. And when we are satisfied that they meet the requisite requirements then we will proceed to issue licences."
SINGAPORE: Singapore’s Casino Regulatory Authority says it is reviewing " more than a handful’’ of junket operators to see if they can be given licences to work with the casinos here.
Junket operators usually have strong connections and bring in high rollers.
They act as middlemen and provide credit as well, usually earning a commission based on the amount gambled by the high rollers.
Reports say that in Macau alone, high rollers brought in by junket operators account for almost 70 percent of the industry’s total revenue.
In 2009, Las Vegas Sands chairman Sheldon Adelson said he did not think the Singapore government would allow any junkets.
However, the CRA has never had an outright ban.
Keeping information on such operators close to its chest, CRA refused to say if any licences would be given out by the end of this year.
Speaking to the media at the CRA’s change of command on Wednesday, its outgoing chief Mr T Raja Kumar said checks have to be stringent to prevent organised crime.
He said: " When we do probity checks, we are checking for suitability in terms of the individuals who are involved in the industry as well as check the source of funds to make sure they are legitimate. And when we are satisfied that they meet the requisite requirements then we will proceed to issue licences."
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Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said yesterday that an inquiry will be held, adding that it will also include the police.
“It is not just an internal inquiry, it will also involve the police.
The inquiry is to be done immediately,” he told reporters.
“This is the first time I’ve seen this this is not common practice,” Mr Hishammuddin explained when asked whether nude squats were standard procedure adopted by the Immigration department.
“It is wrong to say that immigration (department) frontline did this ... this involved the detention centre,” said the minister.
Reports said the incident occurred at about 1.30am last Thursday.
The two women had driven to Johor Baru for supper but failed to get their passports stamped when they drove through an unnamed immigration lane.
They made a U-turn after realising their mistake but were allegedly detained for several hours by Malaysian immigration officials and were taken to the Pekan Nenas detention centre.
Defending the immigration officers at the Causeway, Mr Hishammuddin said the incident had taken place under the purview of a separate unit. “It is wrong to say that the immigration (department) frontline did this ... this involved the detention centre,” said the minister.
Meanwhile, Malaysia’s immigration director-general Mr Alias Ahmad said on Tuesday that the arrest of the two Singaporean women was done according to law, reported
Responding to claims that the detention of the two women was unlawful, Mr Alias said in a statement:
“They were detained by immigration officers on duty at the check-out counter for not having any visit pass or valid entry stamp on their passports.”
Mr Alias also refuted the two women’s claim that there were no supervising officers at the check-in counter they had driven through.
— Malaysia’s Home Ministry will conduct an investigation into reports that the Johor immigration department forced two Singaporean women to strip naked and perform squats last Thursday.Bernama.
RHB Investment Bank (RHB) is the first investment bank in Malaysia to be certified by Bursa Malaysia to offer Direct Market Access Equity (DMA Equity) services to clients. RHB utilize the system that was provided by US-based software maker, SunGuard.
Direct Market Access (DMA) infrastructure for the equity market was put up by the Bursa Malaysia last year. With the DMA platform, clients would be able to react quickly to information flows and to self-manage limit orders in the market. The system will allows large transaction to be executed cheaper and faster.
Previously, investors from hedge fund managers to retail investors will have to contact a stockbroker who will then place the order through the computer system. However, with DMA that no longer necessary as they are connected directly to the Stock Exchange.
DMA also allows the use of complex trading strategies, which is only possible with the high speed of sending an order to the exchange in a matter of miliseconds – the duration of an eye blink.
The facility is currently available to only institutional investors and RHB will roll it out to retail investors later this year.
Bursa Malaysia has confirmed that at least three to four more stockbrokers may switch to DMA for equity this year.
DMA is already the norm in advanced markets in the US and Europe, driven by the needs of the large hedge funds.
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WHICH country is WORLD No. 1 in PROSTITUTION now ?
In terms of total number of prostitutes ?
In terms of % of prostitutes to the country's population ?
?
Is there a RANKING LIST ?
niuyear ( Date: 16-Jun-2011 11:08) Posted:
" ..........Is PROSTITUTION an ORGANIZED CRIME ? ..............."
Its a MUST to organise this crime than to be sorry.
Singapore is " bertter off" to be overtaking Las Vegas in casino gaming, than having overtaking some countires being the world no. 1 prostitution country .
The late Cantopop diva’s mother Tam Mei-Kam exposes her daughter’s love life through her book
Eight years ago, Hong Kong Cantopop singer Anita Mui passed away due to cervical cancer. She was 40 years old.
After her death, Anita's mother Tam Mei-Kam had been trying to gain legal claim to Anita's estate, which is estimated to be worth about HK$100 million (approximately S$16 million). However, the older woman's appeal was dismissed by the federal court last month.
In order to raise funds for the lawsuit, the 80-year-old planned to release a book about Anita's private life.
Tam revealed, " Amongst all her boyfriends, Anita loved Andy Lau the most. She really wanted to be with him. One day, she came to me and said, 'Mom, I give up. Andy already has a steady girlfriend.' She even went to Malaysia personally to verify the information."
The " steady girlfriend" was Andy's current wife Carol Zhu.
Commenting on Anita's dispute with her co-star Sandra Ng on the set of Dance of a Dream, Tam claimed that the diva came crying home because the latter was chosen to play Andy's girlfriend in the movie.
Tam let on that other than revealing Anita's love life, she would also tell her daughter's experience of meeting members of a triad in a pub, which caused the singer to go into hiding for several months.
Other major events in Anita's life would also be found in the yet-to-be-released book.
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