Selected Asian Business Information Sources

Singapore

Print Resources | Internet Resources

Print Resources

• Doing Business in Singapore : Information Guide. Singapore : Price, Waterhouse. 1996. 230 pp.

  LC Call Number:	KPP97.75.A13 D65
  Available in:	Asian Reading Room: South Asia Reference Business Reading Room: Uncataloged copy: Current Periodical Shelves (1994 edition)

  A source of information about local practice, customs, law and business conditions in Singapore for foreigners contemplating setting up business there.

  91-650359

• Key Business Directory of Singapore. Singapore : Dun & Bradstreet Information Services, 1996/97.

  LC Call Number:	HG4244.67.Z65 K49
  Available in:	Business Reading Room: Foreign Industrial Directories Alcove

  Lists approximately 3,200 medium to large sized companies in Singapore, with sales of at least S$12 million or at least 50 employees. The listings are cross-referenced alphabetically, by line of business and by name of directors. Includes a special section which ranks companies by sales and employees.

  95-657413

• Kompass Directory of American Business in Singapore. [Singapore : Kompass South East Asia Ltd. in co-operation with the US Foreign Commercial Service, American Embassy in Singapore.] 1997.

  LC Call Number:	HF3800.67.A48 D57
  Available in:	Asian Reading Room: South Asia Reference Business Reading Room: Foreign Industrial Directories Alcove

  Provides brief information on American companies in Singapore, including office hours, top executive(s), parent companies, and activities and services. Includes indexes of agents and distributors, brand names, products and services.

  88-648177

• Kompass Singapore : The Trade Register of Singapore Companies. Singapore : Kompass. 19th edition. 1996-1997. 939 pp.

  LC Call Number:	HF3800.6.Z8 S52
  Available in:	Asian Reading Room: South Asia Reference

  This edition of Kompass Singapore lists the services and products of over 19,800 local and international companies.

  93-640506

• Singapore 1997. Singapore : Ministry of Information and the Arts, 1997. 369 pp.

  LC Call Number:	DS598.S7 S6
  Available in:	Asian Reading Room: South Asia Reference Main Reading Room

  Singapore has always according a high priority to the development of its economic infrastructure, in the belief that good infrastructure is one of the key factors that determines the competitiveness of the economy. This government publication presents an excellent study of the economic prowess of this island nation.

  73-640267

• Singapore Financial Sourcebook . Tan Chwee Huat. Singapore : Singapore University Press, National University of Singapore, 1997.

  LC Call Number:	HG187.S55 T38 1997
  Available in:	Business Reading Room

  Includes an overview of the financial system of Singapore as of 1996, including financial development and policies, financial markets, and government financial assistance programs for business. In addition, the volume includes a section of statistical tables, generally for the period 1974 to 1996, with some tables dating back to 1970, which cover commercial and merchant banks and financial companies, their assets, liabilities, deposits, and loans along with tables on the Asian currency unit and the Asian dollar market. This section is followed by a directory of financial institutions in Singapore, and a lexicon of financial terms used in Singapore and the Asia Pacific region.

  97-945600

• Singapore Industrial Directory : the Green Book. Singapore : Promedia International Pte Ltd.. 1996/1997.

  LC Call Number:	HF3800.67 A48 S585
  Available in:	Asian Reading Room : South Asia Reference

  One of the most authoritative and up-to-date directories of industrial products and services available in Singapore, published exclusively for industrial buyers and sellers.

  95-948175 Online edition available via the Internet: http://sidgreenbook.com/

• Times Business Directory of Singapore. Singapore : Times Trade directories Pte Ltd. 117th edition, 1997/1998.

  LC Call Number:	HF3800.6.Z8 S577
  Available in:	Asian Reading Room : South Asia Reference Business Reading Room: Foreign Industrial Directories Alcove

  A business directory of Singapore.

  84-941265

Internet Resources

• ieSingapore
  URL: http://www.iesingapore.com/
  Publisher: Singapore Trade Development Board

  Contains much business information, including a listing of business opportunities, "doing business" guides, export monitors, organization listings, company directories, and trade show listings.

• Statistics Singapore
  URL: http://www.singstat.gov.sg/
  Publisher: Singapore. National Statistical Office.

  The site offers links to a vast amount of statistical and business information on Singapore. It contains current economic indicators, facts and figures, SingStat datashop, Singapore Business Directory, as well as press releases from this agency.

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