South-east Asia's leading financial news site.
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Created
Between 1 March 2018 and 31 July 2021 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated.
National news — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 9 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 83% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and the other topics.
Growth
63 measurements spanning 95 days, net +387. Dots are measurements; the straight line between them is drawn to join them, not to claim we know the path taken in between — snapshots are recorded only when a count changes, so gaps mean “no change observed”, never “interpolated”. The vertical axis spans 46,146–46,659 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded, most recent 20 of 63
Measured (UTC)
Subscribers
Change
9 Nov 2026, 05:49
46,600
+1
7 Nov 2026, 23:47
46,599
+11
6 Nov 2026, 20:21
46,588
+7
5 Nov 2026, 21:20
46,581
+15
4 Nov 2026, 20:27
46,566
+17
3 Nov 2026, 23:19
46,549
+11
2 Nov 2026, 22:32
46,538
+6
31 Oct 2026, 19:16
46,532
+10
30 Oct 2026, 21:09
46,522
-4
29 Oct 2026, 17:39
46,526
-8
28 Oct 2026, 20:56
46,534
+11
27 Oct 2026, 22:36
46,523
+2
26 Oct 2026, 19:00
46,521
+12
25 Oct 2026, 22:15
46,509
-1
24 Oct 2026, 22:57
46,510
+8
23 Oct 2026, 23:56
46,502
+8
23 Oct 2026, 00:47
46,494
+4
22 Oct 2026, 01:46
46,490
+6
20 Oct 2026, 23:09
46,484
+5
19 Oct 2026, 22:31
46,479
first reading
Engagement
1,104 posts held, back to 5 August 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 195 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
ERR · 30 days
12.1%
avg views ÷ 46,600 subscribers
Avg views / post
5,660
355 posts measured
Reaction rate
0.428%
reactions ÷ views · ER floor
Posts in window
355
of 1,104 held
ERR is average views per post over the last 30 days divided by subscribers, the definition TGStat uses, so this figure is comparable with the one you will see elsewhere. It falls structurally as a channel grows: a high ERR on a small channel and a low one on a large channel describe reach mathematics, not quality. We publish the figure and the sample it came from and pass no verdict on it.
ER is defined industry-wide as (forwards + reactions + comments) ÷ views — note the denominator is views, not subscribers. Telegram’s public web preview carries views and reactions but not forward or comment counts, so the reaction rate above is the reactions term only and is therefore a floor: the true ER for this channel is higher by an amount we have not measured and will not estimate.
What these figures were computed from
Window
Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 11 November 2026
Posts held
1,104 (5 August 2026 – 11 November 2026)
Views total
2,009,020
Reactions total
8,592
Forwards / comments
not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated
Readings taken
11 Nov 2026, 15:03 UTC
Views are a single reading per post, taken at the time above. A post published in the last day or two is still accumulating views, which pulls the 30-day average down slightly. That is a property of the standard definition rather than a fault in it, so we keep the definition rather than “correcting” the number into something nobody can reproduce.
Precision. Telegram publishes view counts on its public widget in short form — 8.12K, 3.7M — so any reading at or above 1,000 reaches us rounded to three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. Averages and rates derived from them are shown to the same precision rather than to the unit: a figure like 3,701,250 would assert digits nobody measured.
Reaction counts are published per emoji and rounded the same way, so a total below 1,000 is exact and a larger one is a sum that may carry a rounded component from each emoji above 1,000. Because it is a sum, it does not look rounded — read a large reaction total as three significant figures per contributing emoji rather than as the figure it prints.
What this channel posts
Photos
≈22,100
Videos
≈966
Links
≈22,400
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 11 November 2026 — not the date at the top of this page, which is when the subscriber count was last read. A count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints these counters in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈142,000 means somewhere between 141,500 and 142,499.
Video runtime
56m 51s
Average length
2m 11s
Measured directly from 26 videos with a duration reading, out of the posts we hold for this channel — not this channel’s whole posting history, only the sample this register has actually read. An exact reading to the second, taken from the post itself rather than from Telegram’s own rounded chrome, so it carries no ≈ mark.
Reaction mix
24,377 reactions across 1,000 posts, in 12 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 29.7% of them.
Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
Reaction
Count
Share
Share, drawn
🤣
7,231
29.7%
👍
3,826
15.7%
❤
3,423
14.0%
👎
3,354
13.8%
😡
2,532
10.4%
😱
1,134
4.65%
🤔
935
3.84%
🔥
669
2.74%
🤯
636
2.61%
😢
492
2.02%
💯
91
0.373%
🤩
54
0.222%
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 1,000 of the 1,000 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 24,377 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 1,000 most recent posts we hold (the sample is capped at 1,000), published 15 August 2026 to 11 November 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
Recent posts
Telegram’s own ‘edited’ marker: 23 of 355 posts held from the last 30 days (6.48%) carried it when this register last read them. The marker says a post was changed after publishing, not what it said before — this register holds the earlier wording only where an edit fell between two of its own reads (see the edit ledger and how it is measured).
‘We’ll look at it, we’ll see what is feasible’: SIA CEO on new business-class seat colours
“We’ll look at it, we’ll see what is feasible,” said SIA CEO Goh Choon Phong, acknowledging criticism of the colours of the carrier's new long-haul business-class seats.
Chief commercial officer Lee Lik Hsin also described the negative feedback on the design as a good learning point.
https://bt.sg/bKLH
Indonesia’s Vice-President Gibran resigns: Here are the controversies on his rocky road to power
The move comes after 120 lawmakers from all 8 parties in Parliament filed a motion of opinion against him.
https://bt.sg/9CFj
SIA Q2 net profit quadruples to S$209.7 million on stronger yields, lower Air India losses
However, H1 profit still falls on fuel costs.
https://bt.sg/ovTKw
Foreign investors pull out US$50 billion from Asian equities in October on AI, cash burn woes
These investors withdrew a net US$49.8 billion from equities in South Korea, Taiwan, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines – the largest monthly net outflow since June – according to LSEG.
https://bt.sg/qXKx
Chery recalls about 54,000 vehicles in China after Malaysia axle-failure incidents
The carmaker has filed a recall for certain Omoda and Tiggo brand vehicles built between 2022 and end-2023.
https://bt.sg/GbNM
Singapore real estate deal wave set to subside after record 2026 on higher borrowing costs
Hongkong Land was expected to announce an acquisition of the commercial component of the Marina One complex, but there has been talk that the deal is off.
https://bt.sg/Fojq
Singapore accountancy sector grows 5.1% to S$3.7 billion as salaries rise across the board
First-year audit assistants recorded the largest increase, with median monthly pay rising 13% to S$3,400.
https://bt.sg/KKZZ
Why are there so many Chinese brands in Singapore?
Quicker table turn, shorter menus and economies of scale. What have Chinese brands mastered that gives them the edge? Can local F&B catch up? BT speaks to Ervin Yeo of CapitaLand Investment to explore whether changing consumer tastes are the reason behind recent enhancements of malls.
https://bt.sg/ik9RD
AI should not lead to a winner-takes-all scenario: MAS’ Chia Der Jiun
Singapore is working with the industry to diffuse AI adoption more widely, so that it is not just the large financial institutions that are adopting AI well.
“We don’t want AI to be unlevelling competition too much, such that it becomes a winner-takes-all situation,” said Chia Der Jiun, managing director of MAS.
https://bt.sg/GFj5
Investors urged to be selective as Singapore banks’ Q3 shows widening performance gap
“The latest results suggest that investors can no longer treat all three banks as essentially the same investment,” said Saxo chief investment strategist Charu Chanana.
DBS is still delivering stronger profitability, while OCBC’s underlying business looks better than its headline results. UOB, meanwhile, has more work to do to res…
Sheng Siong has fallen from its highs. Can its defensive appeal endure?
No longer the market darling it was in July, Sheng Siong nonetheless offers defensive qualities that make it a worthwhile holding in a diversified Singapore portfolio, says BT's Navene Elangovan.
https://bt.sg/qgnZ
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Showing the 12 most recent of 1,104 posts we hold for @BizTimes. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Posts edited after publishing
@BizTimes edited 8 posts after it first published — the same permalink now carries different wording than the one this register originally read, caught because our own crawl held a copy of the earlier text.
An edit is not deception. Typo fixes, price updates and corrections look exactly like this too — this register can tell you the wording changed and when, not why. How this is measured.
First edit seen
25 August 2026
Most recent edit
10 November 2026
Posts recorded as deleted after publishing
We recorded 2 posts on @BizTimes as deleted — posts this register held that were missing from the channel’s public page on two separate reads, taken from different network addresses at least an hour apart.
A deletion is not wrongdoing. This register can see that a post it held is no longer on the channel’s public page, and when — not why. Expired ad placements, reposts, rotating links and corrections all look the same. This is a count of recorded detections, not an exact total: it misses deletions we could not see, because only a post we held and later re-read inside the page can be seen to go, and it may include a small number of wrong records. How this is measured.
First seen missing
4 September 2026
Most recent seen missing
18 September 2026
Median time before seen missing
13 hours
Seen missing in the last 30 days
0
Polls
The poll we hold for this entry, as Telegram rendered it when we read the post. A poll’s figures keep moving after that, so each one is dated.
The Great Iced Coffee Debate: Is it okay to bring iced coffee to a job interview?
Yes — nothing wrong40%
No — a cardinal sin60%
Shares as published. No per-option vote count is published by Telegram, so none is shown.
Percentages only — there are no per-option vote counts here, because Telegram publishes none. The public post preview gives each option’s share and a single voter total, and nothing else. Multiplying one by the other would produce a per-option tally that looks measured and is not: the shares are rounded to whole numbers before we ever see them. We print what was published and leave the column that does not exist empty.
The shares need not add up to 100. Rounding alone puts many polls at 99 or 101. A poll that allows more than one answer per voter runs well past 100 by design, and several here do. The bars are drawn against a fixed 100% track at each option’s own percentage rather than normalised to the total, so a poll that exceeds it shows that it does instead of being quietly rescaled.
Read from the 1,000 most recent posts we hold (the sample is capped at 1,000), published 15 August 2026 to 11 November 2026. Telegram labels each poll by kind — an anonymous poll, a quiz, a closed set of final results — and that label is reproduced rather than paraphrased.
Mentions
Named by 1 registered channel — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.
Named by
Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.
A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
Channels Telegram recommends alongside this one
Telegram’s own answer, not this register’s. When this register asks Telegram’s API what is similar to this channel, this is the list it returns, in the exact order Telegram returns it — never re-sorted by subscribers or by anything else this register measures. The relationship, and the order, are Telegram’s; we record them and date them, and make no claim of our own about which of these channels actually resemble this one.
Read from Telegram’s recommendation API, most recently 27 August 2026. Telegram holds a list like this for a small and growing share of the register — how this is measured, and why most channel pages show nothing here.
Appears in Telegram’s recommendations for other channels
The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.
HDB @singaporeHDB · 51,677 Telegram ranks this channel #2 of 60 here — alongside 59 others — read 25 August 2026
EdgeProp SG @edgepropsg · 21,411 Telegram ranks this channel #3 of 74 here — alongside 73 others — read 23 September 2026
DollarsAndSense.sg @dollarsandsense · 25,632 Telegram ranks this channel #4 of 69 here — alongside 68 others — read 14 September 2026
CPF Board @CPFBoard · 36,287 Telegram ranks this channel #4 of 67 here — alongside 66 others — read 1 September 2026
TODAY @todayonlinesg · 49,775 Telegram ranks this channel #4 of 69 here — alongside 68 others — read 25 August 2026
The Straits Times @TheStraitsTimes · 270,474 Telegram ranks this channel #5 of 47 here — alongside 46 others — read 11 August 2026
Goody Feed SG @goodyfeedsg · 38,369 Telegram ranks this channel #9 of 70 here — alongside 69 others — read 31 August 2026
Mothership @mothershipsg · 247,698 Telegram ranks this channel #13 of 35 here — alongside 34 others — read 11 August 2026
The Woke Salaryman @thewokesalaryman · 34,135 Telegram ranks this channel #14 of 70 here — alongside 69 others — read 3 September 2026
SG Weekend Plans @sgweekend · 85,920 Telegram ranks this channel #14 of 56 here — alongside 55 others — read 18 August 2026
CNA @cnalatest · 227,411 Telegram ranks this channel #14 of 55 here — alongside 54 others — read 11 August 2026
TheSmartLocal @TSLMedia · 46,363 Telegram ranks this channel #15 of 55 here — alongside 54 others — read 27 August 2026
Eatbook @eatbooksg · 51,791 Telegram ranks this channel #19 of 47 here — alongside 46 others — read 24 August 2026
MS News @mustsharenews · 55,145 Telegram ranks this channel #19 of 54 here — alongside 53 others — read 23 August 2026
Bloomberg @bloomberg · 185,490 Telegram ranks this channel #21 of 95 here — alongside 94 others — read 12 August 2026
gov.sg @Govsg · 238,264 Telegram ranks this channel #21 of 52 here — alongside 51 others — read 11 August 2026
SG Adulting 101 @sgadulting101 · 25,918 Telegram ranks this channel #23 of 56 here — alongside 55 others — read 13 September 2026
LTASingapore @LTASingapore · 35,989 Telegram ranks this channel #23 of 66 here — alongside 65 others — read 2 September 2026
Seedly Personal Finance SG @personalfinancesg · 50,741 Telegram ranks this channel #24 of 68 here — alongside 67 others — read 25 August 2026
Singapore Careers and Job Opportunities - sgCareers @sgCareers · 23,520 Telegram ranks this channel #28 of 72 here — alongside 71 others — read 18 September 2026
Good To Fly ✈️ @goodtofly · 80,340 Telegram ranks this channel #28 of 48 here — alongside 47 others — read 18 August 2026
SG Fitness & Health @sgfitnesshealth · 24,238 Telegram ranks this channel #30 of 58 here — alongside 57 others — read 16 September 2026
dateideas by TOS 💕 @dateideas · 60,091 Telegram ranks this channel #30 of 54 here — alongside 53 others — read 22 August 2026
Good-2-Go 🇸🇬 @good2gosg · 102,750 Telegram ranks this channel #31 of 37 here — alongside 36 others — read 16 August 2026
This channel appears in 46 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total, of which the 24 where it ranks highest are shown above. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 9 November 2026 — this
entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“The Business Times” (@BizTimes), 46,600 subscribers as measured 9 November 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/BizTimes.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.