HeroX, the leading platform and open marketplace for crowdsourced solutions, today launched the crowdsourcing competition, "The Carbon Zero Grand Challenge". The challenge seeks to incentivize ... ( read original story ...)
GHY Culture Deal to Acquire Singapore’s Clover Films Is Canceled
Singapore entertainment group GHY Culture & Media has revealed that its proposed takeover of producer and distributor Clover Films is not going ahead. GHY announced plans in mid-June to acquire a 51% ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore government kicks off 5G trials across multiple sectors
Various public-sector agencies have commenced 5G trials involving use cases for industries such as healthcare, manufacturing, and construction, with plans for 15 pilots to run in Sentosa by year-end. ( read original story ...)
ICA foils multiple attempts at importing ivermectin into Singapore, seizes over 20,000 tablets
The Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) has foiled five attempts at illegally importing ivermectin into Singapore via postal parcels between Sept 10 to Oct 6.In a Facebook post shared on ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore business park rents slip 0.9% in Q3
Savills expects rents of outlying business parks to bottom out soon. A recent report by Cushman & Wakefield says rents of city fringe business park, prime logistics, warehouse and factory spaces in ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore launches 5G testbed on Sentosa
Singapore launched a series of 5G trials on the island of Sentosa as part of a broader set of moves to boost digital innovation. ( read original story ...)
Best Credit Card Promotions (October 2021): Apple iPad, Nintendo Switch Lite & More
I have to admit, I absolutely love credit card promotions. These days, banks offering the best credit cards in Singapore compete so hard for new customers that they practically rain Apple ... ( read original story ...)
OCBC, Ping An to provide two-way wealth services in China’s Greater Bay Area
OCBC on Tuesday (Oct 19) announced that its Hong Kong subsidiary, OCBC Wing Hang Bank, will partner China's Ping An Bank to provide two-way wealth management services in the Greater Bay Area (GBA).. ( read original story ...)
Singapore intercepts 23,100 imported ivermectin tablets
Immigration authorities have prevented thousands of bogus COVID “cures” including 23,100 ivermectin tablets from entering Singapore in recent weeks. ( read original story ...)
Singapore has become ‘addicted to large quantities of S-Pass workers’ — former GIC Chief Economist
Speaking at the Progress Singapore Party’s Beyond the Jobs Debate Forum, former GIC Chief Economist, Yeoh Lam Keong said that one reason why Sin ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore quarantine-free travel stirs hope for wider Asia revival
Quarantine-free travel is slowly resuming in Asia, with Singapore and some other key destinations opening up to passengers who have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Asia has lagged far behind ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore expands quarantine-free travel for vaccinated passengers
Singapore on Tuesday began quarantine-free entry for fully vaccinated passengers from eight countries, part of a plan to ease restrictions as the business hub gears up to live with the coronavirus. ( read original story ...)
ConveGenius AI, India’s Leading EdTech Startup Raises $5M USD (Pre Series A) for Mass Market Direct-to-Consumer Expansion to Serve 100M Households
ConveGenius AI, India's Leading EdTech Startup Raises $5M USD (Pre Series A) for Mass Market Direct-to-Consumer Expansion to Serve 100M Households. LONDON, SAN FRANCISCO, and SING ... ( read original story ...)
Global minimum corporate tax rate is only going to hurt the West – and help Singapore
Singapore included — have signed a landmark agreement establishing a global minimum corporate tax rate of 15 per cent, there’s doubt as to how it is going to affect the city-state. After all, small ... ( read original story ...)
State Department, CDC warn against travel to Singapore amid ‘very high’ COVID-19 risk
The State Department and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Americans against traveling to Singapore citing a "very high" risk of COVID-19 in the country as it prepares to welcome ... ( read original story ...)
Beach House Pictures Launches Space Lion Post-Production Shop in Singapore (EXCLUSIVE)
Asia-based TV production firm Beach House Pictures is launching Space Lion Studios, a Singapore-based post-production facility. The move is intended to capture work flowing from the current ... ( read original story ...)