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Why is talent management becoming so important for companies, cities and countries, and what is the level of awareness globally?

Singapore (CNN)President Donald Trump touched down in this Southeast Asian city-state Sunday evening, 36 hours before his highly anticipated summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is set to kick off.

Pera Museum's spring exhibition "Singapore Unseen" presents an in-depth study into Singapore's rather unknown face solely visible from a local perspective. 

Singapore's Temasek and Britain's Metric Capital have bought into Nusr-Et steakhouse owner D.ream in a deal valuing the Turkish firm at $1.2 billion.

 Singapore is hoping to deploy autonomous buses on public roads in three different districts of the city-state from 2022 to provide better connectivity, the country's Ministry of Transport said in a statement on Wednesday, reported Reuters. 

Turkey and Singapore want to reach $2 billion in trade volume by the end of 2018, said Turkish Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci on Aug. 21.

A free-trade agreement between Turkey and Singapore will come into force by Oct. 1, Zeybekci said in a speech to the Turkey-Singapore Business Forum.

Serbian Finance Minister will attend the traditional spring meetings of the IMF and the World Bank in Washington DC, the Serbian government has announced.

According to a statement, the April 20-23 gathering will bring together the world's financial elite - governors of central banks, finance ministers and representatives of major financial institutions.

A top official at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Tuesday there had been progress on Greece and the Fund would like to get to a situation where it could help Greece.

"Some progress has been made," David Lipton, first deputy managing director of the IMF, told reporters in Berlin. "We would like to be in a position to help Greece," he added.

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Bulgaria has to do more than overhaul school curricula and to talk about changing methods of teaching, the country's national coordinator for the PISA study has said.

Her comments follow the publication of last year's figures for the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a worldwide study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

For the second year in a row, Singapore has taken the top spot in HSBC's Expat Explorer country league table, while Switzerland offers the best wages and Sweden is the best for families. 

New Zealand and Canada followed close behind, taking second and third place, respectively, in the overall Expat Explorer country league table.