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Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean will join India's External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj for a two-day ASEAN-India Pravasi Bharatiya Divas to be held here next month. Apart from Swaraj, Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE - Lady luck could be smiling on you in the New Year. The Singapore Pools has announced that its New Year Toto Draw will take place on Jan 5 at 9.30pm, with a $5 million top prize up for grabs. The draw will be held at the Singapore Pools Building ... ( read original ...

2017 was a horrible year for Singapore’s government — and for Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in particular, which began with an open and vocal stoush with China. Singapore’s Keppel Corp Ltd said the impact of a mammoth fine borne by its offshore unit ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: It's another quiet day at the Armenian Church compound, where music conductor Gevorg Sargysyan is busy overseeing the construction of the museum and gallery. Except for the occasional tourist, the place is mostly empty. The next time it comes ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore has been a safe harbor – to date – in the volatile Southeast Asian region, which has been plagued by intermittent terrorist attacks. But Lion City has been on high alert and a growing number of its citizens fear that the wealthy city-state ... ( read original story ...)

In Singapore no one is above the law ... allowed the convoy to come quickly to the scene in the event of an emergency, they added. The online news reported that the police and LTA have reviewed this incident and SecCom officers have been reminded to ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Just a street away from Singapore's central bank, a cryptocurrency firm has set up what it claims is the first cafe in the city-state to be owned and operated by a business promoting its own digital coin. The downtown pitstop, which ... ( read original story ...)

The only recent piece of analysis that leaves much food for thought is Ku Swee Yong’s three-part articles on “Big Singapore Market Upgrade – Hype or Reality?” where he questions Morgan Stanley’s remarks that “property prices are on track to ... ( read original story ...)

(CNN) — Singapore's illustrious hotel history may have started with Raffles, but it took many decades for another new hotel -- the Marina Bay Sands in 2010 -- to capture travelers' popular imagination in the same way. Since then, the hotel scene in ... ( read original story ...)

A Singapore civil servant was Wednesday fined but escaped jail for leaking confidential information to a journalist, a prosecution that a rights group described as an attempt to spread a "culture of fear". Government housing agency employee Ng Han Yuan ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore Airlines has launched its all-new cabins on board ... Other perks include a personal reading light, cocktail table, and extra stowage space. The good news for the rest of us is economy seats have been given a makeover and they promise more ... ( read original story ...)

View original content with multimedia:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/singapores-ip-office-to-grant ... to license its CRISPR-related patents to interested parties "Singapore's notice of patent allowance for MilliporeSigma's CRISPR integration ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore Tuesday issued a warning about cryptocurrencies after a recent surge in prices sent investors flocking to bitcoin. "The Monetary Authority of Singapore advises the public to act with extreme caution and understand the significant risks they take ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore banned two more financial professionals over breaches related to 1Malaysia Development Bhd., taking to eight the number of prohibitions handed down by the city in connection with the troubled state investment fund. The Monetary Authority of ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore on Tuesday banned a jailed banker from working in its financial services industry for life over his links to the international money-laundering scandal involving neighbouring Malaysia's state fund 1MDB. Financial regulator the Monetary Authority ... ( read original story ...)

But aviation analyst Alex Macheras, from London, begs to differ. Last week he flew on the Singapore Airlines A380 delivery flight from Airbus HQ in Toulouse, France, to Singapore Changi Airport, its new home – and has declared that its first-class suite ... ( read original story ...)