New hospitality and tourism chapter to give ITE and polytechnic students more industry exposure It is supported by the Singapore Tourism Board, and aims to bridge the gap between education and industry. https://bt.sg/d8Qq
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Channel
@BizTimes
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · What this channel posts · Reactions · Posts · Posts edited after publishing · Polls · Citations · Telegram's recommendations · Cite this entry
46,510subscribers
+297 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 31,623–100,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001194346770 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @BizTimes |
| Description | South-east Asia's leading financial news site. For more breaking news: https://bt.sg/4zbZc Subscribe to the BT Personal Edition at S$9.90/mth: btsub.sg/btpersonal |
| Created | Between 1 March 2018 and 31 July 2021 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 24 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 49 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 24 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/BizTimes |
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 why it has no browse page of its own yet.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | +10 |
| 18 Oct 2026, 20:11 | 46,469 | +9 |
| 17 Oct 2026, 21:06 | 46,460 | -3 |
| 16 Oct 2026, 18:37 | 46,463 | +1 |
| 15 Oct 2026, 19:50 | 46,462 | +1 |
| 14 Oct 2026, 19:37 | 46,461 | +4 |
| 13 Oct 2026, 07:31 | 46,457 | +8 |
| 9 Oct 2026, 02:37 | 46,449 | +12 |
| 4 Oct 2026, 16:37 | 46,437 | +51 |
| 26 Sept 2026, 17:56 | 46,386 | +24 |
| 19 Sept 2026, 15:37 | 46,362 | +16 |
| 17 Sept 2026, 02:40 | 46,346 | +12 |
| 15 Sept 2026, 02:57 | 46,334 | +24 |
| 13 Sept 2026, 14:40 | 46,310 | +1 |
| 11 Sept 2026, 18:59 | 46,309 | first reading |
907 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 161 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
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.
| Window | Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 25 October 2026 |
|---|---|
| Posts held | 907 (5 August 2026 – 25 October 2026) |
| Views total | 1,935,400 |
| Reactions total | 8,093 |
| Forwards / comments | not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated |
| Readings taken | 25 Oct 2026, 13:10 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.
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 25 October 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.
Measured directly from 21 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.
21,880 reactions across 907 posts, in 12 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 27.8% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🤣 | 6,076 | 27.8% | |
| 👍 | 3,357 | 15.3% | |
| ❤ | 3,286 | 15.0% | |
| 👎 | 3,226 | 14.7% | |
| 😡 | 2,376 | 10.9% | |
| 🤔 | 942 | 4.31% | |
| 😱 | 884 | 4.04% | |
| 🔥 | 585 | 2.67% | |
| 🤯 | 518 | 2.37% | |
| 😢 | 481 | 2.20% | |
| 💯 | 91 | 0.416% | |
| 🤩 | 58 | 0.265% |
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 907 of the 907 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 21,880 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 907 most recent posts we hold, published 5 August 2026 to 25 October 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.
New hospitality and tourism chapter to give ITE and polytechnic students more industry exposure It is supported by the Singapore Tourism Board, and aims to bridge the gap between education and industry. https://bt.sg/d8Qq
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#BTLifestyle: National Museum of Singapore shows its funny side: Hello Kitty, plastic bags and MRT misery From Hello Kitty plushies and supermarket plastic bags to an entire HDB lift, the revamped Singapore History Gallery at the National Museum of Singapore is taking a surprisingly playful approach to telling the nation's story. https://bt.sg/sGspz
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#BTLifestyle: Personalise your Longchamp bag – in time for Christmas The bag personalisation service allows the French brand’s best-selling tote – as well as six other bag styles – to be made uniquely yours. Longchamp’s My Pliage pop-up runs till Nov 18 at Raffles City https://bt.sg/CRpP
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Tuan Sing to buy Westgate Tower in Jurong for S$600 million The 20-storey Grade A office asset houses 295 strata-titled office units. https://bt.sg/zELZ
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Malaysia’s co-working operator Worq is confident it can keep up its 40% growth rate All of the company’s co-working spaces are profitable “on a standalone basis” due to a prudent approach and the strategy for new co-working office openings, Worq’s chief financial officer and co-founder Andrew Yeow tells BT's Lionel Lim. https://bt.sg/zxVC
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Gas supply cut from Indonesia accounts for less than 2% of Singapore’s daily gas demand: EMA The authority has contingency plans in place to deal with such reductions. https://bt.sg/HSZN
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#BTLifestyle: Is stamp collecting enjoying an analogue revival or are its best days over? Helping keep the pastime alive is 170-year-old UK dealer Stanley Gibbons, which returns with a live auction. https://bt.sg/g4wV
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#BTLifestyle: Johanne Siy brings a Filipino touch to Aro Singapore Drawing inspiration from her Filipino heritage, Johanne Siy delivers a meticulously crafted 12-course tasting menu that showcases her creativity and technical skill. BT’s Jaime Ee finds out why this much-awaited debut is worth the attention. https://bt.sg/7bjR
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Waymo founder predicts ‘landslide’ robotaxi adoption in Singapore, driven by high car costs Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are involved in 95% fewer crashes resulting in serious injuries or fatalities than human-driven vehicles. “They don’t text, they don’t drink, they’re not distracted … and they won’t talk about politics,” says Waymo founder Sebastian Thrun. https://bt.sg/AkRY
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From crisis to revival: SGX CEO Loh Boon Chye plans exit after lucrative decade-long pivot “The company has done really, really well under Boon Chye’s leadership,” says SGX chairman Koh Boon Hwee, noting that the exchange’s share price climbed 216% from the time Loh took the helm to Jun 30 this year. https://bt.sg/ammE
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End of an era? How the Hermes Birkin is losing its scarcity appeal Prices of the bags on resale platforms have been falling since pandemic peaks, resellers say. https://bt.sg/bKpq
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#Brunch: Cabin fever: Airlines rush to refurbish plane interiors to keep competitive edge With some airlines spending as much as US$7 billion on modern features and cutting-edge technology, is the investment worth it, and could passengers end up footing the bill? https://bt.sg/xgk7
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Showing the 12 most recent of 907 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.
@BizTimes edited 7 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.
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?
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 907 most recent posts we hold, published 5 August 2026 to 25 October 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 24 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“The Business Times” (@BizTimes), 46,510 subscribers as measured 24 October 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.