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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore on Monday announced it plans to raise its sale tax to 9 percent from 7 percent, but said the change will be only be made “sometime” between 2021 and 2015. Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat told parliament of the plans to ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE - Amid Singapore's strong position riding on a global upturn last year, Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat outlined in his Budget speech on Monday (Feb 19) three major shifts in the coming decade: a greater economic emphasis on Asia, the emergence ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE - Singapore stocks opened higher on Monday (Feb 19), with the Straits Times Index advancing 0.4 per cent, or 15.08 points to 3,458.59 as at 9.02am. About 64.3 million shares worth S$99.7 million in changed hands. Gainers outnumbered losers 123 to 40. ( read original story ...)

Singapore: Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX) said on Monday it will launch successor products to its flagship Indian equity index derivatives before the bourse's licence agreement with the National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) expires in August 2018. ( read original story ...)

With Singapore’s strengthening economy having boosted government coffers, economists predict a larger than expected Budget surplus for the financial year ending March 31. — The Straits Times (paywall) PSA ‘to launch tender for driverless vehicles ... ( read original story ...)

When Dr Tan Yew Oo introduced himself as a medical oncologist in 1978, even fellow doctors in Singapore barely knew what that meant. Dr Tan, who was born in Penang and graduated from what was then known as the University of Singapore medical school in 1971 ... ( read original story ...)

Six people were injured after a multi-vehicle collision at Pan-Island Expressway (PIE) on Saturday afternoon, Feb 17. Two women and four men were rushed to Tan Tock Seng Hospital. Reports said that the injured people, aged between 24 and 55, were conscious ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore's Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) has warned the motorists that there can be delay at Woodlands and Tuas checkpoints due to heavy traffic on Sunday afternoon. The authorities said in a Facebook post that there is heavy arrival traffic ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore is one of the countries that I travelled often in my life. I used to visit Singapore a few times a year when I was a teenager. Few reasons for that, it was cheaper back then as the exchange rates were not that bad so my family will go there for ... ( read ...

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Singaporean travellers hankering for familiar food while they are overseas now have more choices, with many home-grown brands opening in places from Australia to Britain Years ago, when chef Willin Low was a student at University of Nottingham in the ... ( read original story ...)

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Two Singapore residents, aged between 21 and 23 years, were charged with one count of extortion on Saturday for pressurising a 17-year-old boy to hand over $2,000. The reports said that the duo threatened the teenager of circulating his sexual video on ... ( read original story ...)

The man was arrested after he entered Singapore with three black bundles of heroin hidden in his motorcycle. SINGAPORE – In a rare case, an Indian-origin Malaysian on death row in Singapore for possessing drugs has been acquitted by the country’ apex ... ( read original story ...)

The 18-year-old will be Singapore’s only representative at PyeongChang 2018. Football and badminton are the number one pursuits in the south-east Asian city-state, where winter sports rarely set pulses racing. Goh could be about to change all that ... ( read original story ...)

The Singapore Airlines Group recently announced bringing blockchain into its loyalty scheme. The airline’s KrisFlyer frequent-flyer programme is to launch a world-first blockchain-based airline loyalty digital wallet. The KrisFlyer is expected to be ... ( read original story ...)