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The Business Times

@BizTimes

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46,305subscribers

+92 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026

Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 31,623–100,000.

Register entry

Telegram ID-1001194346770
TypeChannel
Username@BizTimes
DescriptionSouth-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
CreatedBetween 1 March 2018 and 31 July 2021 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated.
First recorded6 August 2026
Last confirmed live9 September 2026
Measurements held29
Confirmed unchanged1 time, most recently 9 September 2026
On Telegramt.me/BizTimes

Topic

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.

Growth

46,20546,31546,2606 August 2026 — 46,213 subscribers6 August 2026 — 46,213 subscribers7 August 2026 — 46,214 subscribers8 August 2026 — 46,210 subscribers9 August 2026 — 46,205 subscribers10 August 2026 — 46,214 subscribers11 August 2026 — 46,224 subscribers12 August 2026 — 46,232 subscribers13 August 2026 — 46,251 subscribers14 August 2026 — 46,260 subscribers16 August 2026 — 46,257 subscribers17 August 2026 — 46,255 subscribers18 August 2026 — 46,254 subscribers19 August 2026 — 46,265 subscribers20 August 2026 — 46,264 subscribers21 August 2026 — 46,267 subscribers23 August 2026 — 46,261 subscribers24 August 2026 — 46,280 subscribers25 August 2026 — 46,279 subscribers26 August 2026 — 46,283 subscribers27 August 2026 — 46,298 subscribers28 August 2026 — 46,301 subscribers30 August 2026 — 46,304 subscribers31 August 2026 — 46,308 subscribers1 September 2026 — 46,309 subscribers2 September 2026 — 46,306 subscribers4 September 2026 — 46,315 subscribers6 September 2026 — 46,311 subscribers9 September 2026 — 46,305 subscribers46,3056 August 20269 September 2026
29 measurements spanning 34 days, net +92. 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 46,189–46,332 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded, most recent 20 of 29
Measured (UTC)SubscribersChange
9 Sept 2026, 06:5546,305-6
6 Sept 2026, 01:3846,311-4
4 Sept 2026, 00:0046,315+9
2 Sept 2026, 12:2846,306-3
1 Sept 2026, 11:4646,309+1
31 Aug 2026, 11:0546,308+4
30 Aug 2026, 07:5546,304+3
28 Aug 2026, 10:5946,301+3
27 Aug 2026, 12:3846,298+15
26 Aug 2026, 14:0446,283+4
25 Aug 2026, 13:3446,279-1
24 Aug 2026, 15:5746,280+19
23 Aug 2026, 02:0446,261-6
21 Aug 2026, 16:2246,267+3
20 Aug 2026, 13:0346,264-1
19 Aug 2026, 09:3546,265+11
18 Aug 2026, 10:5346,254-1
17 Aug 2026, 11:4346,255-2
16 Aug 2026, 01:4746,257-3
14 Aug 2026, 13:5446,260first reading

Engagement

393 posts held, back to 5 August 2026the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 72 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.

ERR · 30 days
12.1%
avg views ÷ 46,305 subscribers
Avg views / post
5,580
329 posts measured
Reaction rate
0.431%
reactions ÷ views · ER floor
Posts in window
329
of 393 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
WindowRolling 30 days · latest post in window 9 September 2026
Posts held393 (5 August 20269 September 2026)
Views total1,835,940
Reactions total7,911
Forwards / commentsnot exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated
Readings taken9 Sept 2026, 23:01 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
21,400
Videos
946
Links
21,700

Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 9 September 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
18m 33s
Average length
2m 19s

Measured directly from 8 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

9,379 reactions across 393 posts, in 12 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 24.7% of them.

Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
ReactionCountShareShare, drawn
🤣2,31624.7%
👎1,71318.3%
1,52816.3%
👍1,40114.9%
😡1,08511.6%
🤔4324.61%
😱3193.40%
😢2102.24%
🔥1751.87%
🤯1491.59%
💯260.277%
🤩250.267%

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 393 of the 393 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 9,379 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.

Measured over the 393 most recent posts we hold, published 5 August 2026 to 9 September 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

9 Sept 2026, 13:09 UTC≈3,750 views28 reactionsread 9 September 2026
Photo

DBS ‘categorically rejects’ S$1.3 billion claim by 1MDB-linked entities under liquidation DBS said it “has consulted its legal advisers, and categorically rejects and will vigorously resist the claim”. https://bt.sg/tGLr

🤣20🤔3🤩2😱2😡1

9 Sept 2026, 12:01 UTC≈4,120 views11 reactionsread 9 September 2026
Photo

New BizSG initiative to give SMEs easier access to government support and services The BizSG portal will offer guided navigation across government support and services, and tailor recommendations to each business' needs and goals. https://bt.sg/MY8o

🤔9👍2

9 Sept 2026, 10:45 UTC≈4,210 views16 reactionsread 9 September 2026
Photo

Royal Holdings, RB Capital buy Scotts Square for S$310 million The purchase is expected to be completed by year-end, after which the new owners are expected to embark on an overhaul of the mall. https://bt.sg/tEbz

😱6👎5🤣2😡2👍1

9 Sept 2026, 09:30 UTC≈4,630 views47 reactionsread 9 September 2026
Photo

COE premiums up across the board; Cat A price hits all-time high of S$133,009 The latest Category A COE price was 3.5% higher than the S$128,501 posted at the previous tender, overtaking the S$129,000 record set in July 2026. https://bt.sg/5jo4y

😡29🤣9👎4👍31🔥1

9 Sept 2026, 08:15 UTC≈4,580 views5 reactionsread 9 September 2026
Photo

Asean’s digital economy pact promises to unlock US$2 trillion, but is unknown to 1 in 3 firms: poll Being in the dark, these firms could be making decisions that may need to be unwound when the agreement kicks in. https://bt.sg/nJgH

🤣2😡2👍1

9 Sept 2026, 08:03 UTC≈4,300 views4 reactionsread 9 September 2026
Video

PODCAST: Is your portfolio ready for a bumpy next decade? Genevieve Cua speaks with Kelvin Tay of Pictet Wealth Management on Pictet’s 10-year market outlook in an era of AI, techflation and higher bond yields. This episode is produced in collaboration with Pictet Wealth Management. 🎧 Listen here: https://bt.sg/8KYP #btpodcasts #wealthbt #btcorrespondents

2🤣1😡1

9 Sept 2026, 06:55 UTC≈4,540 views29 reactionsread 9 September 2026
Photo

Amara said to put Sentosa luxury resort hotel up for sale at S$200 million The hotel has been put up for a sale ahead of Sentosa's big revamp, at a reported indicative selling price nearly twice its valuation in 2025. https://bt.sg/42kZZ

🤔15🤣7👍3😡31

9 Sept 2026, 05:46 UTC≈5,340 views29 reactionsread 9 September 2026
Photo

Singdollar hits 10-month high against MYR; analysts still bullish on ringgit The exchange rate between the two currencies rose as high as 3.2204 ringgit, according to Bloomberg data, having last been higher in November 2025. https://bt.sg/qE95

🔥16🤣6😱32👍2

9 Sept 2026, 05:02 UTC≈5,100 views20 reactionsread 9 September 2026
Photo

Singdollar emerges as safe haven currency amid US dollar volatility: BOS CIO “Gone are the days that we can rely on the US dollar as one of our safe haven currencies,” said the Bank of Singapore's global chief investment officer. In 2025, the US dollar fell by over 10%. https://bt.sg/DTzo

11🤣7🔥2

9 Sept 2026, 03:45 UTC≈4,930 views69 reactionsread 9 September 2026
Photo

How much should Singapore’s leaders be paid? The salary revisions, unveiled by PM Wong on Tuesday, offer a chance to assess how Singapore fares in challenging times – and to reflect on how the country is meant to be run. https://bt.sg/MVRU

👎38🤣17😡83🤔2😱1

9 Sept 2026, 02:31 UTC≈5,050 views21 reactionsread 9 September 2026
Photo

Pine Grove’s S$1.78 billion en bloc attempt could get fresh start under opt-in to new rules The condominium, which is in its fifth attempt at a collective sale, could get a leg up from new rules which would lower the consent hurdle it faces from 80% to 70%. https://bt.sg/4rLsB

10😡6🤣3🤔1🤯1

9 Sept 2026, 01:15 UTC≈5,060 views13 reactionsread 9 September 2026
Photo

Singapore must be ‘traffic controller’ of business flows amid US tariffs’ supply chain reshuffle: DPM Gan “We need to be a focal point where major decisions are made,” said DPM Gan Kim Yong, and not simply a "traffic junction" where goods flow through. https://bt.sg/t2nv

🤣9👍4

Showing the 12 most recent of 393 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 3 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
3 September 2026

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.

The Straits Times
@TheStraitsTimes · 269,396
#1
TODAY
@todayonlinesg · 49,993
#2
Tradehaven
@tradehaven · 9,288
#3
SGX Market Updates
@sgmarketupdates · 11,635
#4
DollarsAndSense.sg
@dollarsandsense · 25,534
#5
Straits Times News Feed
@StraitsTimes · 14,609
#6
EdgeProp SG
@edgepropsg · 21,458
#7
Tech in Asia
@techinasiaofficial · 3,234
#8
CPF Board
@CPFBoard · 36,331
#9
Goody Feed SG
@goodyfeedsg · 38,757
#10
The Smart Investor
@thesmartinvestorsg · 10,672
#11
TheSmartLocal
@TSLMedia · 46,186
#12
SG Weekend Plans
@sgweekend · 85,756
#13
Vulcan Post
@vulcanpost · 2,186
#14
Stacked Homes
@StackedHomes · 17,041
#15
🐳 WhalePool Traders Journal
@NewsUpdateLearning · 2,767
#16
SG Home & Living - Uchify 🏠
@uchify_sg · 11,344
#17
Singapore Property News Broadcast
@PropNexPropertyNewsUpdate · 12,625
#18
Financial Horse - Singapore Stock and REIT Investments 🐴
@financialhorse · 15,698
#19
The Independent SG
@tisgp · 2,118
#20
HDB
@singaporeHDB · 51,591
#21
MoneySmart Singapore
@MoneySmartSingapore · 7,777
#22
CNA
@cnalatest · 225,818
#23
Mothership
@mothershipsg · 247,454
#24
Bloomberg
@bloomberg · 171,880
#25
Nikkei Asia
@nikkeiasia · 8,750
#26
MS News
@mustsharenews · 55,449
#27
Financial Times
@financialtimeschannel · 15,817
#28
gov.sg
@Govsg · 239,403
#29
Investing Beanstock
@investingbeanstock · 6,077
#30
The Edge Singapore (Active)
@theedgesg · 17,306
#31
AsiaOne.com
@AsiaOnecom · 14,320
#32
Seedly Personal Finance SG
@personalfinancesg · 51,107
#33
Bloomberg Crypto
@bloombergcrypto · 27,476
#34
South China Morning Post SCMP 南華早報
@south_china_morning_post · 5,113
#35
Wu Blockchain News
@wublockchainenglish · 240,886
#36
The Wall Street Journal
@WSJmarket · 3,955
#37
The Wall Street Journal World News
@wall_street_journal_news · 16,883
#38
Investment Moats
@investmentmoats · 6,884
#39
Lawrence Wong
@pm_lawrencewong · 11,255
#40
SGX Invest
@sgxinvest · 25,269
#41
Bangkok Post
@bangkok_post · 2,446
#42
Mint Business News - Official Channel
@livemint · 113,573
#43
Business Standard Official
@bsindiaofficial · 79,701
#44
TechCrunch
@techcrunchcom · 4,857
#45
8days
@eight_days · 6,864
#46
Dr Wealth
@realDrWealth · 7,556
#47
Financial News Digest
@fng_onair · 3,022
#48
The Star (Official)
@thestar_official · 32,664
#49
The Woke Salaryman
@thewokesalaryman · 34,420
#50
TheFinance.sg
@thefinancesg · 5,995
#51
New Straits Times
@nstmalaysia · 6,209
#52
LTASingapore
@LTASingapore · 36,053
#53
Moneycontrol
@moneycontrolcom · 237,601
#54
Market News Feed
@marketfeed · 38,294
#55
unfolded.
@unfolded · 118,061
#56
IRAS
@irassg · 3,744
#57
ATR News Feed
@asiatechreview · 419
#58
CNBCTV18.com
@cnbc_tv18 · 77,979
#59
Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs
@MFAsg · 5,816
#60
Briefly Crypto
@BrieflyCrypto · 5,235
#61
OCBC Research Insights
@OCBCResearchInsights · 6,453
#62
Stomp Singapore
@stompteam · 17,594
#63
TasteSoul 😋
@tastesoulsg · 84,615
#64
Watcher Guru
@WatcherGuru · 627,022
#65
Gong Jiao Wei 巩娇玮
@gongjiaoweiy · 4,743
#66
The New York Times
@nytimes · 181,631
#67
Cointelegraph
@cointelegraph · 336,646
#68
HardwareZone.com
@HardwareZoneSG · 9,092
#69
CNBC International
@cnbci · 15,888
#70
Associated Press Top News AP
@associated_press_news · 7,249
#71
QCP Broadcast
@QCPbroadcast · 13,533
#72
Crypto Mumbles
@cryptomumbles · 9,461
#73
Reuters: World
@ReutersWorldChannel · 49,704
#74
Trading and Economics
@tradingecon · 5,324
#75
Talent@Web3
@talentatweb3 · 9,470
#76
Wall Street Journal
@wallstreetjournalchannel · 5,721
#77
The Verge
@thevergechannel · 4,304
#78
infinityhedge
@infinityhedge · 45,800
#79
Yahoo Finance
@yahoo_finance_feed · 3,044
#80
The Washington Post
@washingtonpost · 57,234
#81
The Guardian
@guardian · 41,189
#82
FRANCE 24 English
@France24_en · 24,246
#83
The Block News Feed
@the_block_crypto · 25,099
#84
Thir.st
@thirstonline · 9,886
#85

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 · 51,591
Telegram ranks this channel #2 of 60 here — alongside 59 others — read 25 August 2026
CPF Board
@CPFBoard · 36,331
Telegram ranks this channel #4 of 67 here — alongside 66 others — read 1 September 2026
TODAY
@todayonlinesg · 49,993
Telegram ranks this channel #4 of 69 here — alongside 68 others — read 25 August 2026
The Straits Times
@TheStraitsTimes · 269,396
Telegram ranks this channel #5 of 47 here — alongside 46 others — read 11 August 2026
Goody Feed SG
@goodyfeedsg · 38,757
Telegram ranks this channel #9 of 70 here — alongside 69 others — read 31 August 2026
Mothership
@mothershipsg · 247,454
Telegram ranks this channel #13 of 35 here — alongside 34 others — read 11 August 2026
The Woke Salaryman
@thewokesalaryman · 34,420
Telegram ranks this channel #14 of 70 here — alongside 69 others — read 3 September 2026
SG Weekend Plans
@sgweekend · 85,756
Telegram ranks this channel #14 of 56 here — alongside 55 others — read 18 August 2026
CNA
@cnalatest · 225,818
Telegram ranks this channel #14 of 55 here — alongside 54 others — read 11 August 2026
TheSmartLocal
@TSLMedia · 46,186
Telegram ranks this channel #15 of 55 here — alongside 54 others — read 27 August 2026
Eatbook
@eatbooksg · 51,887
Telegram ranks this channel #19 of 47 here — alongside 46 others — read 24 August 2026
MS News
@mustsharenews · 55,449
Telegram ranks this channel #19 of 54 here — alongside 53 others — read 23 August 2026
Bloomberg
@bloomberg · 171,880
Telegram ranks this channel #21 of 95 here — alongside 94 others — read 12 August 2026
gov.sg
@Govsg · 239,403
Telegram ranks this channel #21 of 52 here — alongside 51 others — read 11 August 2026
LTASingapore
@LTASingapore · 36,053
Telegram ranks this channel #23 of 66 here — alongside 65 others — read 2 September 2026
Seedly Personal Finance SG
@personalfinancesg · 51,107
Telegram ranks this channel #24 of 68 here — alongside 67 others — read 25 August 2026
Good To Fly ✈️
@goodtofly · 80,206
Telegram ranks this channel #28 of 48 here — alongside 47 others — read 18 August 2026
dateideas by TOS 💕
@dateideas · 60,238
Telegram ranks this channel #30 of 54 here — alongside 53 others — read 22 August 2026
Good-2-Go 🇸🇬
@good2gosg · 103,291
Telegram ranks this channel #31 of 37 here — alongside 36 others — read 16 August 2026
TasteSoul 😋
@tastesoulsg · 84,615
Telegram ranks this channel #32 of 40 here — alongside 39 others — read 18 August 2026
Skills & Workforce Development Agency
@Skills_Workforce_Development · 59,702
Telegram ranks this channel #33 of 70 here — alongside 69 others — read 22 August 2026
Malaysiakini EN (Official)
@malaysiakini · 29,928
Telegram ranks this channel #34 of 87 here — alongside 86 others — read 8 September 2026
The Star (Official)
@thestar_official · 32,664
Telegram ranks this channel #35 of 82 here — alongside 81 others — read 5 September 2026
Microbiology
@microbiology_vid · 57,446
Telegram ranks this channel #35 of 52 here — alongside 51 others — read 26 August 2026

This channel appears in 36 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 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.

“The Business Times” (@BizTimes), 46,305 subscribers as measured 9 September 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.