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When it comes to the safety of food, water and electricity provided for their citizens, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain are the world's top-ranking nations, according to a survey ... ( read original story ...)

Employers in Singapore can consider implementing reasonable temporary wage cuts if such a move minimizes retrenchments, the National Wages Council said in a statement. ( read original story ...)

The cost of air tickets between two major Asian financial hubs jumped within 24 hours of Singapore and Hong Kong unveiling plans for a travel bubble that wouldn’t require people to quarantine upon ... ( read original story ...)

Officials in Singapore and Hong Kong said Thursday that they had reached a preliminary agreement to establish a travel bubble between the two Asian financial centers, allowing travelers of all kinds ... ( read original story ...)

The Singapore stock market has finished lower in back-to-back trading days, sliding almost 45 points or 1.8 percent along the way. The Straits Times Index now sits just beneath the 2,525-point plateau ... ( read original story ...)

U.S. hedge fund D.E. Shaw said on Thursday it plans to set up an office in Singapore in 2021, becoming the latest global firm to expand into the city-state as it looks to tap into new investment ... ( read original story ...)

D. E. Shaw & Co. will open an office in Singapore next year, joining other hedge funds expanding in the city-state to extend their reach in Asia. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong and Singapore say they have agreed to a bilateral air travel bubble, re-establishing travel links as coronavirus infections in both cities decline. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong and Singapore plan to open an "air travel bubble" that allows residents to travel between the two Asian hubs without requiring quarantine or restrictive control measures, authorities ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore and Hong Kong will open their borders to one another for the first time in almost seven months, exempting people in both cities from compulsory quarantine in an agreement that will reinstate ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong and Singapore will set up a travel bubble, the two cities announced on Thursday, as they moved to re-establish overseas travel links and lift the hurdle of quarantine for visiting foreigners ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore and Hong Kong will reveal they’ve reached a preliminary agreement on a travel bubble that may exempt residents of both cities from quarantining or stay-at-home notices, the South China ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong and Singapore on Thursday said they had agreed "in principle" to set up a bubble allowing residents to travel freely between the two financial hubs as long as they test negative for the ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore is looking to add to about S$100 billion ($74 billion) of fiscal stimulus to help strengthen an economy expected to still face significant uncertainty next year, a senior official said. ( read original story ...)

The global aviation industry will take at least two years to recover from the coronavirus pandemic and mass travel to return, Singapore’s Transport Minister Ong Ye Kung said ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore Transport Minister Ong Ye Kung has offered a cautious outlook for air travel amid the coronavirus pandemic. In an interview with Bloomberg television, Ong described the tradeoff leaders ... ( read original story ...)