Sticking your arm out to flag down a taxi has become a less popular – or more difficult – method of getting a ride.
Singapore’s super CNY celebration – Dragon-themed drone show, the biggest ever, lights up Marina Bay waterfront
Marina Bay Sands (MBS) staged the largest drone show in Singapore to date to celebrate the Year of the Dragon, featuring 1,500 synchronised drones along the Marina Bay Waterfront promenade.
Singapore banks bring festive cheer during Chinese New Year
DBSABOUT 160 staff volunteers from DBS will be bringing festive cheer to 750 seniors this Chinese New Year. Read more at The Business Times.
Singapore Budget, Unstable Stablecoins: Sunday Asia Briefing
With China out for the weeklong lunar new year holiday, attention turns to corporate earnings in Japan and Australia and to Indonesia’s election, with Singapore’s budget wrapping up the week on Friday ...
89% Singapore-based businesses value “human touch” especially in corporate banking: HSBC report
SINGAPORE: 89% of Singapore-based businesses value the “human touch”, especially in corporate banking, according to... The post 89% Singapore-based businesses value “human touch” especially in corpora ...
Thailand considers a gamble on Singapore-style casinos, online betting to boost state coffers. Will it pay off?
The Thai government could raise significant tax revenue from allowing a legal gambling industry to grow but must consider the social impacts and better control existing illegal activities, experts say ...
Commentary: Visa waiver deal puts Singapore in good stead to attract the coveted Chinese tourist
Could a new visa exemption arrangement give Singapore the boost to attract more tourists from China? A beleaguered Chinese economy means that Singapore must look beyond its pre-pandemic edge and play ...
Future shifts in Vietnam-Singapore investment
Singapore remains the biggest foreign investor in Vietnam. Up to 2023, Singaporeans poured over $18 billion into Vietnamese real estate, exceeding investments in any other sector.
Singapore hired 5,600 nurses last year, exceeding target of 4,000: Ong Ye Kung | Video
Health Minister Ong Ye Kung says the public healthcare sector hired 5,600 nurses in 2023, exceeding its target of 4,000. He says the new hires will help replace healthcare staff who left during the ...
Best fixed deposit rates in Singapore (February 2024): Rates up to 3.9%, minimum deposits from $500
If you think that fixed deposits are only for conservative cash-rich aunties and uncles, think again. A fixed deposit (also known as a time deposit) account is a type of bank account that pays account ...
Will Singapore’s birth rates get a boost in ‘auspicious’ year of the dragon?
A belief that those born in dragon years have ‘auspicious qualities’ has led many ethnic Chinese, in Singapore and the region, to try to conceive dragon babies.
Singapore court rules son of ex-PM Goh Chok Tong caused RM696 million in losses to fuel supplier company
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): The High Court has found Goh Jin Hian, a former director of insolvent marine fuel supplier Inter-Pacific Petroleum (IPP), liable for breach of director’s duties, ...
POSB’s ‘Spread the Huat’ CNY social media filter donates S$8 to children in need with each use
To spread the Huat this CNY, POSB will donate S$8 to POSB PAssion Kids Fund from Feb. 1 to 24 every time their ‘POSB Spread The Huat’ filter is used and shared on Instagram, Facebook, or TikTok as a ...
Turkish teen who was buried under rubble after earthquake is now in Singapore with family: ‘We weren’t sure if we would survive’
SINGAPORE - At about 4.15am on Feb 6, 2023, 14-year-old Mustafa Akpinar was trapped under the rubble of what was once a 13-storey building.The concrete from the structure that was once the teenager's ...
Biased GPT? Singapore builds AI model to ‘represent’ Southeast Asians
A Singapore government-led initiative is working on a Southeast Asian large language model, the first in a family of models named SEA-LION – Southeast Asian Languages in One Network – trained in the r ...
Singapore cracks down on Chinese influence
F ESTIVE FEVER” is how the Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre describes the national mood in the run-up to Chinese New Year on February 10th. A different fever troubles the go ...