Month: July 2022

SINGAPORE: The National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) will have to evolve and even reinvent itself to remain relevant in a changing landscape, especially as Singapore refreshes its social compact, said ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore's top education unit, the Raffles Institution (RI), will launch a mentoring programme in 2023 in which RI students will provide academic tutoring to Primary 4 to 6 pupils who are receiving ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore’s hotel room rates surged last month to the highest in almost six years as tourism makes a recovery in the city-state after the government eased coronavirus measures. ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: Hotel room rates in Singapore surged last month to the highest in almost six years as tourism makes a dramatic recovery in the city-state after the government eased coronavirus measures. ( read original story ...)

Rwanda's approach of banning plastic bags with stiff penalties in 2008 has reaped environmental rewards. What lessons could Singapore learn in its own push to cut its massive amounts of plastic waste? ( read original story ...)

Singapore's largest telco, Singtel, has achieved a major milestone of achieving over 95% standalone 5G nationwide coverage in less than two years after turning on its 5G network in September 2020. The ... ( read original story ...)

For those who still think back on Zoukout with fond memories and wished those few nights of sandy revelry would be a reality again, we have good news: Zoukout Singapore is making a comeback in 2022. ( read original story ...)

The Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) arrested 100 suspected drug offenders in an islandwide bust between July 18 and 22, seizing drugs with a street value of about $470,000. ( read original story ...)

Scheduled to begin on July 31, CM Arvind Kejriwal's request to attend the World Cities Summit has been rejected. His Deputy Manish Sisodia blamed Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena for being a roadblock ... ( read original story ...)

With Indonesia starting to export chicken to Singapore, its poultry companies must take steps to improve their operations and raise competitiveness, which will put them in good stead for expansion ... ( read original story ...)

The two Southeast Asian states were outliers in a poll in which 25,000 respondents from 19 countries held mostly unfavourable views of Beijing Some ethnic Chinese may view the Asian power as being ... ( read original story ...)

PRIVATE home prices rose 3.5% in the second quarter (2Q) from the previous three months, fuelled by a sharp turnaround for apartments in the city fringe and the continued strength of the landed market ... ( read original story ...)