[citation needed] It is part of the SPH Media group which also publishes The Straits Times, Berita Harian and The New Paper.
[4] The staff was first headed by Tsai Tan, who became the first female editor of a daily newspaper in Singapore.
[5] In 1989, the newspaper won the Media Philanthropic Appeals category of the International Advertising Festival in New York.
[6] The Business Times Budding Artists Fund was initiated in 2004 and adopted by The Business Times in 2005, with the aim to level the playing field and reach out to children and youths from financially disadvantaged backgrounds, ages six to 19.
The Fund provides opportunities and access to the arts, it seeks to enable beneficiaries to learn, discover and nurture their talents so that they may grow in confidence and become resilient in overcoming their personal circumstances.