MORE boardroom huddles over whether to sell off assets considered less crucial to growth could be on the calendar as companies seek to improve valuations and bolster their balance sheets amid the economic gloom that has cast a pall over markets.

REBUILDING and consolidation were the themes of 1986 as Singapore pulled itself out of the rubble of a historic recession and unprecedented market turmoil.

SINGAPORE Democratic Party (SDP) chief Chee Soon Juan has hinted that he may be his party's candidate for the upcoming by-election in Bukit Batok.

ANGEL investors (known also as angels or seed investors, who buy into fledgling companies) are split on an expected government pullback in funding for seed-stage startups. While some deem the likely cutback hasty given a still nascent angel investor market, others welcome it as a sign of a more private-led, sophisticated ecosystem.

STRAITS Real Estate (SRE), the investment unit of The Straits Trading Company, is looking to deploy the remaining one-third of its dry powder in markets such as Australia, Japan, South Korea and China.

A NEW proposal drawn up for a re-tender of the anchor production structure for BP's US$10 billion Mad Dog 2 field development in the US Gulf of Mexico is understood to include a call for the contest to be opened up to yards in China and Singapore.