A doctor who caused the death of a patient in a botched liposuction procedure was sentenced to six weeks’ jail on Friday (Nov 18). Zhu Xiu Chun, 59, ...
Ex-GIC wealth fund chief economist gets second Pofma over comments on Singapore Govt’s fiscal surpluses
The Government on Friday (Nov 18) used its anti-fake news law against former GIC chief economist Yeoh Lam Keong for a second time in about one month, this time over ...
Commentary: Why are there tuberculosis cases in Singapore when most have taken the BCG jab?
Why do tuberculosis cases still pop up in Singapore? This is due to the long latency period of TB and a BCG vaccine that confers limited protection for adults. But it can still be eliminated, says the ...
Bad business: Singapore man charged with murder of 27-year-old renovation firm partner
A 50-year-old man was charged with murder after allegedly killing a 27-year-old woman on Friday, Nov. 18. Caleb Joshua Chai Shanmugam, a director of a renovation firm, is accused of killing his ...
From Singapore To Antarctica: Woman Embarks On 30,000 Km journey To Deliver Food | Watch
This was the case for Maanasa Gopal, who embarked on a 30,000-kilometer-long journey from Singapore to deliver food all the way to a hungry customer in Antarctica. However, she made sure to document ...
Pool: Sharik traverses the globe for Singapore wedding before stunning world No. 1 in Puerto Rico
SINGAPORE – Like Singapore’s other top pool players, Sharik Sayed had been playing on the United States circuit since September. However, on Nov 6, the 32-year-old broke off from the pack that includes Aloysius Yapp and Toh Lian Han to embark on a ...
Nico Rosberg explains why it made ‘total sense’ to bring the Greentech Festival to Singapore
Nico Rosberg, a founder of the Greentech Festival, says Singapore has "ambitious plans" for a sustainable future and is also centrally located in Southeast Asia.
FTX vs Binance: this Singapore startup made a fun and educational game about the FTX fiasco
SINGAPORE, Nov. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The stunning implosion of FTX and its superstar founder Sam Bankman-Fried is reverberating across the global cryptocurrency landscape and has rattled investor faith. Although it might take months to get an accurate ...
Singapore Wholesale Trade Growth Eases In Q3
(RTTNews) - Singapore's domestic wholesale trade grew sharply in the three months ended September, data from the Department of Statistics showed Friday. At current prices, domestic wholesale sales climbed 12.4 percent year-over-year in the third quarter ...
In Singapore, prison workshop supervisor, four inmates charged with smuggling sedatives into jail
SINGAPORE, Nov 18 — A supervisor in a prison workshop was charged today (November 18) for smuggling sedatives into jail for inmates. Calvin Ang Wei Sheng, 39, who was a workshop supervisor at New Hope ...
Deep tech Singapore venture firm targets new US$200 mil fund
The Singapore-based firm, which is led by a team of mostly women, is targeting a fifth fund to add to its existing US$400 million-plus under management. “I started out investing in semiconductor ...
In wake of FTX collapse, Lawrence Wong says Singapore ‘not open to crypto speculation at all’
SINGAPORE: Singapore may want to go big on the "tremendous potential" of digital assets, but it is not open to crypto speculation at all, Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said on Thursday (Nov 17).
Singapore’s deputy PM: FTX case has raised ‘serious allegations’
The collapse of crypto exchange FTX has raised "very serious allegations that amount to potential fraud", Singapore's finance minister and deputy prime minister said on Thursday.
Singapore’s Wong Says Xi-Biden Meet Start of a Long Journey
Singapore’s prime minister-in-waiting said this week’s meeting between US President Joe Biden and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping was “a good start,” but the fundamentals between the competing ...
Singapore’s Wong Says Xi-Biden Meet Is a Start of a Long Journey
Singapore’s prime minister-in-waiting said that the meeting between US President Joe Biden and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping was “a good start,” but that the fundamentals between the competing ...
Singapore writes down $275 million in FTX, calls belief in Sam Bankman-Fried ‘misplaced’
Singapore has become the latest backer of crypto exchange FTX to admit being burned by its spectacular collapse.