Singapore shares opened lower on Thursday, with the benchmark Straits Times Index at 3,443.27 in early trade, down 0.32 per cent, or 11.10 points.
Exporters in Singapore shipped 12.5 per cent fewer goods overseas in the first quarter of the year compared with the same period a year ago, trade agency IE Singapore said on Thursday.
Singapore's economy grew 0.2 per cent in the first three months of this year compared with the same period a year ago, defying earlier estimates of a 0.6 per cent contraction.
BEIJING (REUTERS) - European aid groups said their banks in Europe had stopped sending money to North Korea in the wake of United States (US) sanctions on Pyongyang's main foreign exchange bank, leaving them scrambling for a solution short of hand-carrying cash into the impoverished country.
LONDON (REUTERS) - Nearly half of the money that multinationals and wealthy investors poured into emerging markets in 2011 came via tax havens, resulting in revenue losses for poor countries, anti-poverty campaigners ActionAid said in a report.
