Category: NEWS

In an interview granted to the Vietnam News Agency (VNA), Ambassador Catherine Wong said Singapore and Vietnam share longstanding and multi-faceted ties, with substantive cooperation in many areas. The anchor for this strong relationship is close personal ... ( read original story ...)

In a survey covering more than 1,000 Taiwanese by Taiwan Public Opinion Foundation, Singapore emerged as their favourite country with nearly nine in 10 (87 per cent) giving a ringing endorsement, reported Taiwan News. This year's survey result saw ... ( read original story ...)

PHILADELPHIA, March 21, 2017 /PRNewswire/ – Aberdeen Singapore Fund, Inc. (the “Fund”) (NYSE: SGF), a closed-end equity fund, announced today its performance data and portfolio composition as of February 28, 2017. The Fund’s total returns for ... ( read original story ...)

Here’s what’s happening in Singapore this weekend, from Friday (24 March) to Sunday (26 March). Sphaeras, NOTHING TO DECLARE and We Are Imaginary As part of Esplanade’s Rock The Region activities, 3 bands from Singapore, Japan, and the Philippines ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: Singapore has surpassed Silicon Valley as a startup ecosystem in terms of talent, according to a survey of 10,000 startup founders across more than 100 cities. The Global Startup Ecosystem Report and Ranking 2017 by Startup Genome assessed ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore morning news by AEC News Today is your one stop source for Singapore news on matters of governance and policies affecting Asean business communities. Singapore tops global ranking for startup talent, overtaking Silicon Valley: Survey Singapore ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: Singapore is the healthiest country in Asia and the fourth healthiest country in the world, according to a new Bloomberg index. The country beat the likes of Australia (ranked fifth), Japan (seventh), New Zealand (19th) and the United States ... ( read original story ...)

Over its sixty-seven-year history, officially, the People’s Republic of China looked up to foreign countries as inspiration only twice. In the early 1950s the Soviet Union guided the Communist Party of China. Yet by 1969 the two countries nearly went to ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore morning news by AEC News Today is your one stop source for Singapore news on matters of governance and policies affecting Asean business communities. Ezra Files for U.S. Bankruptcy as Marine Debt Crunch Spreads Ezra Holdings Ltd., a Singapore ... ( read original story ...)

I HAVE been devoting this space to deliberately implausible ideas lately, and the time has come to turn to an issue that our politicians are actually debating: health care reform. Though “debating” might be a strong word, since the politicians I’m ... ( read original story ...)

Andrew Donaldson was more taken with Helen Zille's tweets about Singapore than the ones about colonialism that had everyone dismayed. Thank heavens for Helen Zille. Here we all were, poised yet again at the abyss - in this case, the “self-made” social ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE Exchange-listed Q&M Dental Group has joined healthcare booking platform BookDoc, which connects patients to medical professionals, said BookDoc on Friday morning. "One can now easily search and locate all of Q&M clinics in Singapore and Malaysia ... ( read original story ...)

Against a global trend of decreased travel freedom, the Singapore passport continues to be widely accepted, reaching its highest ranking of No. 4 in this year's Henley & Partners Visa Restrictions Index. The Singapore passport broke a tie with fifth-placed ... ( read original story ...)

On Saturday, Reuters news agency wrote that six people "were charged with creating a public nuisance while protesting against a compulsory tax savings scheme". Read also: Singapore says Reuters report on water price protest misleading But the police ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore: Researchers from the National University of Singapore are running a special project that has them coat glass laboratory flasks with palladium nanoparticles, allowing people to recycle and reuse valuable metal catalysts ‘easier than ever before ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE - Singapore’s non-oil domestic exports increased at the fastest pace in five years in February, adding to signs of a recovery in the trade-dependent economy. Non-oil domestic exports rose 21.5% in February from a year ago, International ... ( read original story ...)