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Singapore's business-friendly environment is a draw for global entrepreneurs, but one rule is non-negotiable: every company must have at least one local director who resides in Singapore. For foreign business owners not based here, a nominee director is often the key to meeting this requirement. This article breaks down the role of nominee directors, when they're needed, and potential exemptions.
Singapore law requires at least one director to be "ordinarily resident" in Singaporeโmeaning a citizen, permanent resident (PR), or holder of a valid work pass, such as an EntrePass or Employment Pass. If you're a foreign entrepreneur without a local presence, a nominee director is appointed to fulfill this legal obligation.
Nominee directors typically don't manage your business operations but are legally accountable for compliance. This is why secretarial services Singapore providers offering nominees use strict contracts and deposits to protect both parties from risks.
You'll likely need a nominee director if:
Corporate secretarial services can provide a nominee director and ensure your company stays compliant with local regulations.
Yes, if you live in Singapore with a valid work pass, such as:
With an approved pass, you can act as the local director, eliminating the need for a nominee. Ensure your visa is approved before assuming this role, as you cannot serve as the sole director without it.
Exemptions to the local director requirement are limited:
Corporate secretarial services can help navigate these exemptions and ensure compliance with the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA).
Nominee directors face legal liabilities, including:
To mitigate these risks, secretarial services Singapore providers use detailed agreements and deposits. Avoid appointing someone unfamiliar with these responsibilities to avoid legal complications.
For foreign entrepreneurs, company secretarial services are essential, offering:
These services ensure your company remains compliant, avoiding penalties and maintaining good standing.
When selecting a service, prioritize:
Singapore's local director rule is a critical compliance step for foreign entrepreneurs. By partnering with trusted secretarial services Singapore providers, you can appoint a nominee director and focus on growing your business while staying compliant in Singapore's thriving market.
Corporate secretarial services are an integral part of business management and compliance, particularly in the context of corporate secretarial services in Singapore.Entrust Public Accounting
Dissent is patriotic again: Just the News reported last week that a June 2021 domestic terrorism policy memo allowed federal agencies like the FBI and Homeland Security to surveil and question Americans if an agent believed they had been involved in โฆJohn Solomon (Just The News)
Thomas Sankara: When the (working) people stand up, imperialism trembles. wordsmith.social/protestation/โฆ
COPENHAGENโ On Saturday, May 17, 2025, Feride Gillesberg, vice president of the Schiller Institute in Denmark, who was at a demonstration to protest the Israeli genocide in Gaza, was interviewed live by the national TV station TV2.Michelle Rasmussen (EIR News)
oh Lord that reminds me of a story. i recently rented a dodge van to pick some solar panels up in illinois.
the gist of this story is that the car computer totally pwned my phone. i was not expecting this invasive malware to do what it did.
my android phone security has been sloppy. for example, in dev options, you can enable default USB behavior, and i had "file transfer" active. well here is a USB port next to the cigarette lighter port, so i assume it's just for charging. nope, it's connected to the computer. so right there, self-pwned. i automatically gave the car access to my files without prompting. (no idea if it did anything with them)
secondly, the bluetooth connection (and i am really disappointed in the default bluetooth security of lineage OS because of this) managed to slurp up all my contacts, seemingly without confirmation on the phone. all i did was pair the phone, thinking i was connecting to only a music device, and BAM it says "contacts downloaded successfully" totally owned again.
the car had a 4g mobile connection built in, so it could have easily sent all that data to anywhere it wants. i have no evidence that it did though, and i immediately went into the car computer and did "clear private data" and "forget device", and it did remove the contacts, however it's anyone's guess whether it kept them or uploaded them
from there i went into the bluetooth settings and restricted the car device to just audio. the shit thing is that by default it stole my contacts without confirmation on the phone side. i was royally pissed
so anyway don't be a dumbass like me and get owned by a car computer
Democracy Dies in Darkness? A new memo from the taxpayer-funded National Endowment for Democracy shows grantee Global Disinformation Index viewed silencing Trump and toxifying certain news outlets to reduce their revenues as a win.Steven Richards (Just The News)
More than 80 witnesses, including top military officials, are set to testify as Brazilโs Supreme Court begins hearings in a historic case against former President Jair Bolsonaro.Al Mayadeen English (Jair Bolsonaro faces coup trial in Brazilโs supreme court)
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Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan is leading in the Romanian presidential runoff with 53.6%, while the leader of the opposition AUR party, George Simion, has 46.Sputnik International
While their statement is a welcome change from the silence and mealy-mouthed objections we have grown accustomed to, it's still too little, too late.
A Detailed Breakdown of the UK-France-Canada Statement on Gaza and the West Bank
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DDoSecrets publishes 410 GB of heap dumps, hacked from TeleMessage
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This morning, Distributed Denial of Secrets published 410 GB of data hacked from TeleMessage, the Israeli firm that makes modified versions of Signal, WhatsApp, Telegram, and WeChat that centrally archive messages.Micah Lee (micahflee)
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"What I most admire about your art, is your universality," Einstein said to Chaplin. "You donโt say a word, yet the world understands you!" "True. But your glory is even greater!" he told the physicist. "The whole world admires you, even though they donโt understand a word of what you say." - anonymous wordsmith.social/protestation/โฆ
Africaโs largest natural gas exporter, Algeria has said that BRICS interests them as an alternative to traditional power centres in the worldBRICS
I don't think I understood how much of a sleep deficit I was in. It's been so long - at least since Easter, I think. I took a long nap yesterday. And another long nap today. And I'm still looking forward to going to bed.
I gotta get more sleep. It's really messing with my body and my mind.
Reports claimed Washington hopes to avoid โperceptionsโ of US backing for Operation Gideonโs Chariots, two days after Trump denied being frustrated with Netanyahuthecradle.co
Alabama has a mental health crisis in its criminal justice system: op-ed from a judge
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The vast majority of all criminal defendants come from low-income communities.ย Many of them have never seen a mental health professional at any time of their life.Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge David Carpenter (al)
In addition to attending the opening ceremony of the Fourth Ministerial Meeting of the China-CELAC [Community of Latin American and Caribbean States], Brazilian President Luiz Inรกcio Lula da Silva paid a state visit to China.Friends of Socialist China
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Woo-hoo! Two ties arrived in the mail today - one of which is perfect.
Also the recruiter scheduled the phone interview for us to start the interview process.
Wish me luck!
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We look at the Lockerbie bombing of Pan Am 103, the trial and a recent TV dramatisation of the events. And what the hell all this has to do with Iran-Contra.Tom Secker (Spy Culture)
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Diplomat says military dialogue aimed at making truce "sustainable"; DG ISPR believes ceasefire can "hold easily".Baqir Sajjad Syed (DAWN.COM)
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He's mostly criminal.
Legally, an emergency use authorization cannot be approved, if there's an effective treatment or prophylactic. There were billions of $ at play for the vaccine. This along with the potential to damage Trump and excercise power over people were powerful motivators to "forget" contrary information.
I would place a huge bet that some of those billions now belong to him.
And being able to let out his small man complex brought him a sick joy.
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Venezuelan President Nicolรกs Maduro called on all Venezuelans to participate in the upcoming elections scheduled for Sunday, May 25.Orinoco Tribune - News and opinion pieces about Venezuela and beyond
In 2019, fifth-grader Max Widmaier was poisoned when a malfunctioning pump in Sandy, Utah, released undiluted hydrofluorosilicic acid into the water, affecting 1,500 households, institutions and businesses and sickening over 200 people.Jennifer O'Brien (Children's Health Defense)
Brochu TV. Colonel Douglas Macgregor and Major Scott Ritter of the US Army, along with historian Sylvain Ferreira and your host Carl Brochu, pay tribute to the late French General Dominique Delawarde.Rรฉseau International
Jean Genet: A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness. wordsmith.social/protestation/โฆ
While aid trucks prepare to enter, Israeli ministers reportedly clash over the move, revealing internal divisions.admin (Palestine Chronicle)
So happy to announce the impending release of my new sci-fi rom-com graphic novel, Zeroed Out! What if shapeshifting aliens came to Earth, but instead of taking over they just fix all our problems?โฆJim Munroe
I didn't listen to the show yesterday - yet - did the boys mention Da
Daddy Longlegs in connection with Joe Biden Cancer?
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Pars Today- The answer to this question can be searched in the daily life of Christian communities in Iran; where historical churches beside mosques symbol...Pars Today
Today weโre very excited to announce the open-source release of the Windows Subsystem for Linux. This is the result of a multiyear effort to prepare for this, and a great closure to the first ever issue raised on the Microsoft/WSL repo:Windows Developer Blog
From the repo's CONTRIBUTING.md:
Most contributions require you to agree to a Contributor License Agreement (CLA)
Meh, a permissive license + a copyright transfer means this shit is just a potential rugpull. MSFT can change the license of the project to source-available or even proprietary at any time and you'll be powerless to stop it.
CLA is basically a requirement for any larger scale open source project. It would be mental to add a "this single edited line is licensed under X license" to every tiny commit. Microsoft's CLA does not tranfer rights btw, it just licenses your contribution to M$ under "basically BSD 0 clause license" terms.
I guess sure they could do a ragpull but it does not make much sense. Reasons:
1) they have open sourced it themselves
2) It's made by M$ for M$. They don't have competition in the Windows space, so there is no point to hide the code.
Also what would be the worst thing that could happen if they did that? You would either use a fork, because WSL2 is basically feature complete at this points, or you would be have to use a proprietary app on a proprietary OS. Imo the licensing of WSL specifically is the least of Windows' issues.
You absolutely do not need a CLA with a copyright transfer. There are plenty of large projects that use a Developer Certificate of Origin that protects the company while not allowing them to change the license of your contribution.
I'll grant that my original post was pissy and angry and not a great take, however. You make good points here.
Does the DCO really offer a real guarantee? it looks like it just adds a Signed-off-by John
line at the end of the commit, with no actual signature checking that enforces any particular version of a particular document is being acknowledged. IANAL but it doesn't look like something proven to work in court to give legal protection.
Sure, it's easier to simply add a sign-off-by line than actually accepting a legal agreement, so it reduces the barrier of entry, but if this were really enough to establish the conditions to shift liability then I don't see why companies wouldn't start using their own DCOs and extending them, essentially being the equivalent to a CLA (which is a license agreement, not a copyright transfer, even if some might add terms that allow relicensing.. which anyway is moot point when the original license is MIT anyway).
These are good points. I was in a shitty mood when I made my comment and upon reflection, it's an overstatement and not a very good take. I do still strongly support copyleft licenses and DCOs over CLAs, but I shouldn't turn my nose up when something is released without those.
I used to be excited when companies open-sourced stuff, and that is no longer the case. I suppose I'm just frustrated and bitter and cynical when it comes to large companies doing good things.
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News - Yemen: A British report stated that the recent US aggression against Yemenis in the Red Sea turned from a mere show of force into a stark example of military and strategic failure for the United States.english.masirahtv.net
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Lenin: The bourgeoisie sees in Bolshevism only one side insurrection, violence, terror; it endeavours, therefore, to prepare itself especially for resistance and opposition in that direction alone. wordsmith.social/protestation/โฆ
Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun on Wednesday laid out six proposals to support the reform and transformation of United Nations peacekeeping operations, reaffirming China's long-standing commitment to multilateral security cooperation.eng.chinamil.com.cn
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in reply to Dunkag • • •@ryuuji Yeah, all manga adaptations of LNs are going to be a lot slower than the source, drawing pictures just takes a lot more time than writing a story. Though the tradeoff of seeing the characters do things in a manga format is pretty nice, plus there's always the occasional funny faces the characters can make.
I really need to get back into reading just plain text, school burned me out of reading long forms of text and quite a few manga adaptations of LNs I've read have gotten the axe over the years (pic related)