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Mingtiandi Username OUE Bayfront on Collyer Quay After a sharp rebound in the first quarter of 2021, Singapore’s property investment volume is set to recapture pre-COVID levels in the coming periods, according to research by Colliers. The global consultancy said total investment sales in the first quarter rose 25.8 percent from the previous quarter and 47.9 percent from a year earlier to S$3.8 billion ($2.9 billion) as sentiment improved amid the reopening of the city-state’s economy. In the commercial segment, investment sales surged 377 percent from the previous quarter and 43.8 percent...

April 06, 2021 The skyline of Singapore's Central Business District. The Straits Times file Singapore’s office rents have a long way to go before matching Hong Kong’s, even after half a dozen of mainland China’s largest technology behemoths piled into the city state in recent months to set up their regional hubs, analysts said. The average monthly rent for Singapore’s grade A office space may drop by 6 per cent this year to $9.01 (US$6.72) per square foot, following the 10 per cent plunge in 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic crimped businesses and forced many to postpone their expansi...

Apr 1, 2021 The wall of Clinton Correctional Facility looms over the community of Dannemora in June 2015. (Enterprise photo — Matthew Turner) ALBANY (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed legislation to end long-term solitary confinement in state prisons and jails, he announced Thursday. Under the new law, prisons and jails will not be allowed to hold inmates in solitary confinement for more than 15 consecutive days. Solitary confinement will be banned entirely for several categories of prisoners including minors, people over 55, pregnant inmates and those with disabilities. “G...

Following a yearslong push, New York is limiting the use of solitary confinement in state and local correctional facilities and banning the practice

ALBANY (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed legislation to end long-term solitary confinement in state prisons and jails, he announced Thursday. U