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Two drug traffickers were hanged in Singapore on Thursday, bringing the number of executions this year in the city-state to four despite growing calls to abolish its death penalty. Activists said the ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore-based warehouse developer GLP has set up a $5 billion income fund focused on logistics properties across China, supported by existing as well as new investors including insurance giants AIA ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore executed two prisoners Thursday sentenced to death for drug crimes more than two months after it hanged an intellectually disabled Malaysian man convicted of drug trafficking. Malaysian ... ( read original story ...)

Punjab-origin Kalwant Singh from Malaysia is the second Indian-origin man to be hanged - in the past three months - by Singapore for a drug-related offence ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore has some of the world's toughest anti-drugs laws, and insists that capital punishment remains an effective deterrent against trafficking despite growing pressure to abolish it. Those ... ( read original story ...)

Kalwant Singh, an Indian-origin Malaysian drug trafficker, is to be executed early Thursday after a Singapore court dismissed a last-minute appeal to delay his sentence, according to a Hindustan Times ... ( read original story ...)

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has hinted the city-state may soon impose more regulations on cryptocurrency. The senior minister and minister in charge of MAS, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo Paralympics double gold-medallist Yip Pin Xiu won her third Sportswoman of the Year accolade at the Singapore Disability Sports Awards ceremony. ( read original story ...)

He is not linked to the imported case of monkeypox announced by MOH on 21 June, the ministry said. The case that was classified as imported is a 42-year-old British man who works as a flight attendant ... ( read original story ...)

Even as we import most of our energy needs today, our country is also shifting towards renewable energy sources such as solar power. ( read original story ...)

The American cities where auto payments cost more than rent, and the German city of Magdeburg’s latest comeback attempt. ( read original story ...)

Singapore has defended its tough stance on drugs and retention of the death penalty, with minister K. Shanmugam saying he did not have ‘any doubts’ about the policy. ( read original story ...)

A Singapore court dismissed a last-ditch appeal by a convicted Indian origin Malaysian drug trafficker, clearing the way for him to be hanged on July 7 morning. Anti-death penalty activists in ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore will not prosecute citizens under its colonial-era law against consensual same-sex sexual relations, a local government official has claimed. During an interview on BBC’s “Hardtalk” on June ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore has confirmed its first local case of monkeypox, the health ministry said late on Wednesday. The patient is a 45-year-old male Malaysian national who resides in Singapore. His condition is ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore on Wednesday (July 6) reported its first local monkeypox infection. The patient is a 45-year-old Malaysian man who lives here, the Ministry of Health (MOH) ... ( read original story ...)