SINGAPORE’S competition watchdog launched its new consumer protection role on Monday with the announcement of two market studies – on online travel booking and the transfer of personal data. Rising U.S.-China trade tensions are raising alarm bells in ... ( read original story ...)
Mining the cryptocurrency craze as rigs sprout across Singapore
With the digital currency fever taking Singapore by storm, local and foreign companies that host computing “mining rigs” have been popping up over the island within the past six months. Mining rigs – fashioned out of various gaming computing ... ( read original story ...)
SINGAPORE TURF CLUB INTRODUCES NEW FORM OF BETTING
Singapore Turf Club will introduce a new form of betting, Flexi-Quartet, from Wednesday, 11 April 2018. It allows customers the flexibility to decide how much they want to invest for a Quartet bet with multiple combinations. With the introduction of ... ( read original story ...)
Asia’s first floating rubbish bin placed at Republic of Singapore Yacht Club
SINGAPORE- A floating rubbish bin that can collect the ocean's trash is now bobbing in the waters of Singapore. Wartsila Corporation, a Global Pilot Partner of the Seabin Project since 2017, is now donating Seabins to different marinas around the world ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Exchange to list Indian equity derivative products in June 2018
The Singapore Exchange on Wednesday said it would list Indian equity derivative products in June, nearly two months after India's three main bourses announced they would stop licensing their indexes to overseas exchanges. The Singapore Exchange on ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore will continue to back China’s economic efforts: PM
Singapore will continue to support China's efforts in its next stage of opening up and in upholding the multilateral trading system, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said yesterday at a meeting with Chinese Vice-President Wang Qishan. PM Lee said the world ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore: Police arrest 136 suspects in 22-day islandwide anti-vice operation
Singapore police arrested two men and 134 women ... and the six Police Land Divisions. The news release stated that the coordinated raids were conducted at multiple locations islandwide, including condominiums and residential units at Geylang, Tanjong ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore and Hong Kong are winning over start-up accelerators
Start-up accelerators see Asia as a hotbed for technological innovation. Those companies see potential in Singapore and Hong Kong, primarily because of their strong reserves of tech experts. There's a new breed of entrepreneurship programs turning to Asia ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore restaurant offers crispy chicken rendang for limited period
A restaurant in Singapore has come up with crispy chicken rendang amid the culinary storm whipped up last week by judges on cooking show MasterChef UK who dared to suggest the existence of such a dish. And before you brush off the creation by Rumah Rasa at ... ( read original story ...)
Commonwealth Games: England beat Singapore to claim badminton team bronze
Rajiv Ouseph saved four match points as he came from a set down to put England 2-0 up against Singapore England beat Singapore 3-0 to claim Commonwealth bronze in the badminton mixed team event. Marcus Ellis and Lauren Smith got off to a winning start ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Airlines has some of the best plane food out there — here’s an inside look at how the airline makes 50,000 meals a day
How airplane food is made can depend on the airline. For Singapore Airlines, they contract an airline catering firm called Gate Gourmet in Switzerland to produce more than 50,000 meals a day. Some of the most fascinating details and secrets from inside ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Airlines named world’s top airline by TripAdvisor
The airline – Singapore’s national carrier – also took home awards in several other categories including Best International First Class (World); Best Airline (Asia) and Best Economy Class (World), said SIA in a news release the same day. ( read original story ...)
Singapore Morning News For April 9
Singapore and China inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Sunday (Apr 8) to promote greater collaboration between companies from both countries in third-party markets along the Belt and Road routes. On April 6, National University of Singapore (NUS ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore is warming up to blockchain but many challenges remain, say experts
In Singapore, stakeholders in the ecosystem are warming up to the idea that blockchain is here to stay, but there remain many challenges. Today, at a panel discussion in the De/Centralize 2018 event moderated by Mohan Belani, Co-founder and CEO of e27 ... ( read original story ...)
UN, Singapore concerned about rising trade tensions
The U.N. secretary-general and the Singaporean foreign minister voiced concerns about global trade tensions and rising protectionism during back-to-back meetings in Beijing on Sunday. Following remarks from his Chinese counterpart, Singaporean Foreign ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Morning News For April 6
Facebook admitted today that 65,009 Facebook users in Singapore may have had their information “improperly shared” with British political consultancy firm, Cambridge Analytica. These accounts are among the up to 87 million Facebook accounts worldwide ... ( read original story ...)