Ann Williams

Assistant Business Editor

Ann is assistant business editor at The Straits Times. She has many years of experience writing and editing business news stories. She values accuracy and clarity and thrives on engaging readers in her job.

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Indonesia’s Chandra Asri to buy ExxonMobil’s Esso petrol stations in Singapore

The deal includes nearly 60 petrol stations and associated supply agreements.

Seatrium shares hit after customer terminates $616m contract for almost completed wind vessel

Seatrium said the vessel is already 98.9 per cent completed.

CICT to acquire remaining 55% of CapitaSpring, finance deal via $500m private placement

The agreed property value for CapitaSpring, a 51-storey office tower in Raffles Place, is $1.9 billion.

HPL shares rebound as lawyers for Ong Beng Seng ask for fine, no jail time

Ong Beng Seng, who founded HPL and remains its controlling shareholder, arriving at the State Courts on Aug 4, 2025.

Ong Beng Seng to step down as managing director of Hotel Properties

Ong is set to plead guilty in a court case linked to former transport minister S. Iswaran.

Tycoon Gordon Tang and wife raise their offer for Suntec Reit to $1.19 per unit

The closing date of the offer has been extended to 5.30pm on Feb 5, from Jan 20 previously.

SingPost appoints Neo Su Yin as group COO in newly created role amid executive overhaul

The newly created role will see Ms Neo overseeing the group’s Singapore and international business units and property.

Singtel shareholders to get 35% higher dividend after rise in first-half underlying profit

Singtel's first-half net profit was down 42 per cent to $1.23 billion, hurt by the absence of a $1.2 billion one-off gain a year-ago.

Cord blood storage ‘not impacted’ by global body’s suspension of accreditation: Cordlife Singapore

Cordlife's storage lapses damaged thousands of clients’ cord blood units.

CEO of Singtel-owned Optus resigns following Australia-wide outage

Kelly Bayer Rosmarin stepped down after a nationwide outage that left about 10 million Australians without phone or Internet access for 12 hours.

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