Singaporeans take huge pride in our hawker culture, and you can easily find local food at hawker centres all across our little red dot. However, two tourists feel that such food should be served on ...
Lesser-known malls in Singapore
If you're not a fan of crowds, pay a visit to these lesser-known malls instead, with hidden gems just waiting to be uncovered.
Singapore in 2100: No escape from scorching heat, dry spells and rising seas
By end-century, sea levels could also rise by 1.15m in the worst-case scenario. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Singapore Increases Goods and Services Tax for 2024
Singapore has increased its goods and services tax (GST) rate by one percent to nine percent as of January 1, 2024.
Singapore’s mean sea level may rise by up to 1.15m by 2100, exceeding previous estimates
Singapore and the global community are facing an inevitable "locked-in" sea level rise in coming decades, even under a most optimistic scenario of low carbon emissions.
More than three-quarters of Singapore businesses feel pessimistic about next 12 months: Singapore Business Federation
The survey involved 1056 companies, with top challenges like increase in business costs and manpower costs as key factors.
The growth of deepfake content in Singapore
With Singapore's Prime Minister warning of deepfake content featuring himself circulating, is it possible to detect such videos and images?
Singapore firms worried about rising costs as business sentiment dips: SBF poll
SINGAPORE businesses have grown more cautious about their outlook compared to a year ago, as rising costs remained a top challenge for firms in 2024, according to the Singapore Business Federation’s ...
‘Green is not enough’: UOB chief sustainability officer on mainstreaming transition finance
While transition finance is becoming more well-accepted in Asia, UOB's Eric Lim says that clear sectoral and national regulatory guidance are needed to help companies publish high-quality ...
Singapore telcos roll out option to block international calls to combat scams from 5 January
Starting 5 January, customers of major Singapore telcos can now block incoming international calls to deter scam attempts. Find out how you can do so.
Singapore in photos, using Oppo FindN3 Flip
Thus, Singapore is an experience that leaves visitors, old and new, in awe. Its beauty is best captured in film — of a time one savored a plateful of the popular Chili Crab, of a place where its ...
Singapore’s economy weathered the storm in 2023
Since October 2022, Singapore’s export-led manufacturing sector, which comprises approximately 20 to 25 per cent of its GDP, has remained subdued due to the decrease in global demand. After a pandemic ...
Singapore’s clandestine kitties get their place in the sun
Across the famously law-abiding (or at least law-enforcing) city-state, thousands of rogue cat lovers have defied a three-decade ban on feline friends in public housing — but as of this summer, the ...
Singapore fuel oil inventories hit about five-month highs
Exports down for second consecutive week * Imports from the West and Middle East drop * Bunker demand lukewarm this week -traders By Jeslyn Lerh SINGAPORE, Jan 4 (Reuters) - Onshore inventories of ...
Asia’s business heirs look beyond profits, hoping to escape parents’ shadow
For some millennial business heirs, the journey is smooth. For others, the gap between their comfortable lives – which gave them the space to learn about socially conscious “impact investing” – and ...
Singapore rejects claims it’s being ‘used as a platform’ for Indonesia’s presidential election
In dismissing the allegations, analysts said Singapore was warning the 250,000 Indonesians living there not to ‘conduct political campaigning or fundraising’ on foreign soil.