Category: NEWS

Several governments in Southeast Asia are invoking the fake news problem to introduce stricter laws and to harass members of the media. Singapore's Minister for Communications and Information Yaacob Ibrahim announced to the Parliament a government plan to ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore prosecutors are seeking a review of a court ruling which sparked a public outcry by reducing the jail term of a showbiz pastor who misused millions in church funds to promote his wife's music career. The case, which involved raunchy music videos ... ( read original story ...)

Deputy national security adviser KT McFarland is expected to leave her position and accept an ambassadorship to Singapore, a senior administration official confirms to ABC News. McFarland is a former Fox News commentator brought on to the job by Trump's ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: Singapore has condemned the Islamic State-linked attacks at two churches in Egypt, the deadliest attacks on Christians in Egypt in recent memory. “Singapore strongly condemns the twin terror attacks on the Mar Girgis Church in Tanta and the St ... ( read original story ...)

Italy and Scotland will play a test match in Singapore June 10 as the city-state seeks to establish itself as a stopover for nations bound for the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan. The two Six Nations sides will make the stopover en route to Fiji and ... ( read original story ...)

HE CAME to Singapore last year for two days on a business trip and was looking to set aside a few hours of his time to visit Gardens by the Bay. But his busy schedule did not allow him to do that and he felt that the time he spent in Singapore "wasn't enough". ( read ...

A top national security adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump is in line to be U.S. ambassador to Singapore. K.T. McFarland came into ... McFarland worked as a Fox News analyst before joining Trump's national security team. She previously worked for ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: Afghanistan will send senior officials to Singapore to attend programmes on topics such as public administration, urban planning and sustainable development under an agreement signed on Friday (Apr 7), Singapore's Ministry of Foreign Affairs ... ( read original story ...)

A Singapore court on Friday cut the jail sentence for the co-founder of one of the city-state's most popular churches, after he appealed his conviction and sentence for misusing millions of dollars to support of his wife's pop singing career. The Court of ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: It cruises past a row of parked cars under the blazing hot sun at Outram Road. Suddenly, it stops in its tracks and zooms in on something. “It has potentially identified a blacklisted car, through its car-plate," explained group managing ... ( read original story ...)

It scored 74.6 out of 100. Singapore leads the pack of Southeast Asian countries in terms of auto sales, said BMI Research. According to BMI Research’s auto sales risk-reward index (RRI), Singapore registered a score of 74.6 out of 100. This places the ... ( read original story ...)

SubPartners originally announced a Perth-Singapore cable back in 2013, with the intent to finance the construction itself and allow other companies to buy capacity. But SubPartners struggled to attract seed money, according to IT News, so it restructured ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore's economy may be perking up, but the central bank isn't likely to turn hawkish at this month's policy review, analysts said. Khoon Goh, head of Asia research at ANZ, said in a note on Wednesday that the question wasn't really whether Singapore's ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: Singapore remains committed to concluding the review of its free trade agreement with India and has not received any official notification from its Indian counterpart that the ongoing review has been put on hold, a spokesperson from the Ministry ... ( read original story ...)

K Shanmugam, Minister for Home Affairs & Minister for Law, has raised the red flag on the prevalence and impact of fake news in Singapore. In a recent Parliamentary discussion, addressing the issue, he talked about the real world consequences of fake news ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: The National Museum of Singapore is exploring the use of data analytics and augmented reality (AR) to better engage with its audiences. The museum's senior assistant director Jervais Choo said: "We are constantly exploring with different ... ( read original story ...)