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The Singapore government will spend S$2.2 billion ($1.6 billion) over the next three years to improve a medical insurance plan for the country’s citizens and residents amid the economic impact of the ... ( read original story ...)

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is joining the likes of JPMorgan Chase & Co. and BNP Paribas SA in setting up a foreign-exchange trading and pricing platform in Singapore. ( read original story ...)

Singapore Airlines said Tuesday it had scrapped plans for "flights to nowhere" aimed at boosting its. With the aviation industry in deep crisis, several carriers -- including in Australia, Japan and ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore Airlines Ltd. is opening one of its Airbus SE A380 superjumbos as a temporary restaurant, joining a gaggle of other carriers trying out novel ways to raise cash while the coronavirus ... ( read original story ...)

An Asian investment giant is marketing 50-year dollar bonds as issuers in the region look to get cheaper funding with longer debt. ( read original story ...)

Cell-based seafood producer Shiok Meats of Singapore has received $12.6 million in Series A funding -- the latest alternative protein company to raise money as the pandemic pressures global ... ( read original story ...)

Business sentiment for the next six months at Singapore's small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) plunged to the lowest ever amid Covid-19-induced uncertainty over prospects for global growth and ... ( read original story ...)

Midway through this year, sales assistants at Singaporean digital payments start-up MatchMove stopped making cold calls to potential customers. The number of inquiries from companies wanting to ... ( read original story ...)

The FT's Mercedes Ruehl looks at how far the city has come in attracting money and talent to its start-up sector and how far it has to go before it can be considered a world-leading centre of tech inn ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: Fifteen new COVID-19 cases were reported in Singapore as of noon on Monday (Sep 28), taking the national tally to 57,715.  Thirteen of ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore's more than four million residents will have to use facial verification technology to access government services through the national identity scheme, a move criticised as intrusive and ... ( read original story ...)

There were 15 new coronavirus cases confirmed as at Monday noon (Sept 28), taking Singapore's total to 57,715. ( read original story ...)

Coronavirus infections in the city state have steadily declined and 99 per cent of total cases have been reported as recovered. But experts urge caution as more restrictions are eased with increased ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore has moved further ahead in its shift away from the London interbank offered rate after a local company got a landmark loan tied to a Libor alternative. ( read original story ...)

Conveniently located at the tip of the Malay Peninsula, Singapore is one of the world’s most open economies with the value of its trade in goods and services equating to more than three times its ... ( read original story ...)

The multimedia project, which utilised augmented reality technology, highlighted the creativity and innovation that will be required on a greater scale by the south-east Asian nation as it charts its ... ( read original story ...)