{"id":15901,"date":"2013-07-30T19:07:47","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T19:07:47","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-07-30T19:07:47","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T19:07:47","slug":"Borders-to-make-comeback-in-Singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=15901","title":{"rendered":"Borders to make comeback in Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Borders might be MIA in the United states but it&#8217;s making a comeback in Singapore.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Book retailer Popular Holdings is bringing Borders back to Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>Popular CEO Chou Cheng Ngok announced this morning that the company acquired the Borders brand for Singapore last year.<\/p>\n<p>The new Borders store would open in Jurong by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Chou also confirmed that the company will be closing its lifestyle concept bookstore Prologue in ION Orchard on 25 August.<\/p>\n<p>Borders closed its flagship store in Wheelock Place in August 2011, and its Singapore outlet in Parkway Parade shut its doors the following month. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr. Chou said:<\/strong> &#8220;People may say that the book industry is a sunset industry. 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