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SINGAPORE: Singapore's economy expanded 2 per cent last year, propped up by a strong showing in the fourth quarter as manufacturing output surged, according to data released by the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) on Friday (Feb 17). The full-year GDP ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: To prepare the next generation of citizens for the challenges that the country will face, a course named Singapore: Imagining the Next 50 Years will be offered across all six universities here. It was rolled out in at the National University ... ( read original story ...)

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) has opened three co-location facilities in Singapore, making it the latest communications service provider to invest in the country’s burgeoning datacentre space. By submitting your personal information, you ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: More than 600 animal babies were born or hatched in Jurong Bird Park, Night Safari, River Safari and Singapore Zoo in 2016, according to Wildlife Reserves Singapore (WRS). Among them were highly threatened Southeast Asian animals such as the ... ( read original story ...)

Len Tadman remembers precisely the moment he heard. It was a cold February night and the nine o’clock news chimed on the family wireless set at home in Dulwich, south London. His mother was ironing. Len, then 16 years old, and two of his eight siblings ... ( read original story ...)

“We see volume picking up and the price declines have slowed,” Lim Ming Yan, the president and CEO of CapitaLand Ltd, said in a Bloomberg Television interview with Haslinda Amin today. “We see this trend continuing for 2017. There is no compelling ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE — It was 75 years ago that Singapore, the island at the tip of the Malay Peninsula that had been key strategic outpost of Britain's colonial empire, fell to invading Japanese troops. The events live on in history books more than in memories. ( read original story ...)

Singapore is proposing to ease regulations for venture capital managers including shortening their application process in a bid to promote financing for startup development. Under a consultation paper published by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS ... ( read original story ...)

Tourist arrivals and spending in Singapore hit record highs last year, buoyed by the growth of the Chinese market and visitors spending more on food and beverage, shopping and accommodation. Preliminary estimates by the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) showed ... ( read original story ...)

About 130,000 allied troops were taken prisoner, including 15,000 Australians, when Japanese forces streamed into Singapore across the Straits of Jahore in February 1942. Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove joined hundreds of others at a ceremony to mark ... ( read original story ...)

Though venture capital investment in Singapore has been reported to grow at healthy rate, the government believes that “there is room” to further expand its size and scope The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) today announced a proposal to simplify ... ( read original story ...)

The people left behind in Singapore and Malaysia upon the fall of Singapore and the British retreat 75 years ago today saw their lives irrevocably change. Today, emigrants from Malaysia (then Malaya) and Singapore are themselves and their extended families ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore is proposing to ease regulations for venture capital managers including shortening their application process in a bid to promote financing for startup development. Under a consultation paper published by the Monetary Authority of Singapore ... ( read original story ...)

The death of a woman in Singapore after a 270-year-old tree fell on her in the ... compaction of its root zone by visitors," Mr Leong said in a statement to BBC News. NParks said it has "a systematic regime of inspection checks" and deploys more than ... ( read original story ...)

February 15 marks the 75th anniversary of the fall of Singapore in World War II. It also effectively marks the rise of the US-Australia strategic relationship. More on that later. Let us first go back to the dark days of January 1942. The Pacific War is ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE - The Canadian High Commission in Singapore cancelled a Canada 150 event at the Botanic Gardens after an accident left one person dead. The federal government says the person killed and four others injured were not Canadian. The Singapore Straits ... ( read original story ...)