Reading Time: 3 minutesSingapore: Ascott has launched a facility to field test its millennial-focused lyf.

Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: BridgeStreet Global Hospitality has announced the launch of what it describes as the first OTA built for business travel.

Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: SACO has announced a major expansion of its operated portfolio of serviced apartments and aparthotels which will see it double in size.

Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: SACO’s Stephen Hanton talks to SAN about the successful launch of the company’s Locke and Cannon aparthotels.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteGermany: Christiane Anstoetz has joined Brera Serviced Apartments to lead its sales and marketing division.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThailand: Joseph Yamdee has been appointed resident manager of Mövenpick Residences Ekkamai Bangkok, the company’s first serviced residences in Asia.

Reading Time: 2 minutesKSA: Rezidor Hotel Group has opened a 92-key Radisson Blu Residence, in the eastern Saudi city of Dhahran.

Reading Time: 2 minutesSingapore: Mapletree Investments, a real estate development, investment and capital management company, has acquired international operator Oakwood Worldwide.

Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: Richard Whittaker of Oakwood Worldwide has been appointed chairman of the Association of Serviced Apartment Providers.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: Developer Clivedale has revealed plans for an 11—storey development in central London that will include serviced apartments and a hotel.