The Singapore-flagged tanker Hafnia Nile and the Sao Tome and Principe-flagged tanker Ceres I collided and caught fire on July 19.
Singapore Now Has the World’s Most Powerful Passport: Report
It may be time to become a citizen of Singapore. The Southeast Asian country has the world’s most powerful passport, according to London-based immigration consultancy Henley & Partners. The Singaporean travel document now gives jet-setters visa-free ...
Singapore jails Canadian-born Hong Kong woman for credit card theft, trying to flee country
Morena Hui Yan-Yan is also on the run from authorities in Toronto, Canada, where she has been wanted for alleged fraud and other property offences since 2019
Singapore named safest city for travellers. Philippines’ Manila, 1 of the riskiest
Asia is home to four of the safest cities in the world – and four of the most dangerous for travellers, according to a new ranking.
Singapore patients may get greater access to novel cancer drugs under R&D partnership
The Singapore Translational Cancer Consortium is the 27th member of the cancer immunotherapy research network. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Singapore is world’s most powerful passport with visa-free access to 195 countries
Singapore has reclaimed the top spot on the Henley Passport Index with visa-free access to 195 destinations. The US and UK continue to slide, while Afghanistan holds the weakest passport.
China’s BYD widens EV lead over Tesla in Singapore, Southeast Asia, data shows
China's BYD widened its sales lead over Tesla in Singapore in the first half of this year, government data showed, highlighting the challenge facing the world's biggest electric vehicle maker by sales ...
Philippines and Singapore broaden defense ties with a new agreement
The Philippines is signing a defense pact with Singapore that will allow their militaries to broaden their engagement, including holding joint exercises to prepare for humanitarian emergencies and oth ...
Max Maeder looms as legitimate gold medal prospect for Singapore in Olympic kiteboarding
Singapore's gold medal hope Max Maeder is a poster child for sailing's sea change since the last Olympics, with 'foiling' classes such as his kiteboarding discipline making up half of the 10 events in ...
Singapore grapples with over 10,000 dengue cases so far this year as the illness sweeps across the globe
SINGAPORE: 2024 has been a record-breaking year for cases of dengue worldwide, including areas that don’t usually see the illness. In Singapore, the number of cases so far this year has already ...
Singapore Has World’s Most Powerful Passport After Unseating Europeans
Singapore edged past France, Germany, Italy and Spain to reclaim bragging rights as having the world’s most powerful passport.
‘I was very proud to represent Singapore’: Soprano Shimona Rose on winning award at Llangollen
SINGAPORE – Even though she was feeling under the weather, Singaporean opera soprano Shimona Rose Thevathasan clinched the Pendine International Voice of the Future award at the Llangollen ...
Singapore’s GIC posts weakest investment gains in four years
Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC's main gauge of investment return posted its weakest growth in four years, and said high interest rates, China economic difficulties and geopolitical tension would ...
Hex Trust Receives In-Principle Approval from Singapore’s MAS For Major Payment Institution License
The Major Payment Institution license would allow for the company to offer regulated Digital Payment Token services, such as custody.
Singapore’s Homegrown Farming Dream Is Beginning to Fade
By most measures, Karthik Rajan’s farm in Singapore is a success story. Run from a two-hectare plot of land in the island’s north, LivFresh has been supplying major supermarkets with spinach, lettuce ...
Singapore’s GIC looks to buy western groups’ China units
Singapore’s GIC, one of the world’s biggest institutional investors, has said it will seek to buy stakes in multinational companies’ China units if they exit the country amid slowing growth and rising ...