Building on its commitment to achieve net zero operational carbon emissions by 2022, DBS today announced plans to transform an existing four-storey office building located at 135 Bukit Timah Road into ... ( read original story ...)
Next pandemic could come at any time, Singapore’s Shanmugaratnam says
Tharman Shanmugaratnam, former deputy prime minister and minister of finance for Singapore, discusses the findings of the G-20 High-level Independent Panel report on future pandemic preparedness. ( read original story ...)
Canadian bank robber jailed in Singapore for 5 years avoids caning
David James Roach will not receive strokes of a cane. Singapore has very low levels of crime and applies tough punishments for many crimes, including and caning for lesser crimes ... ( read original story ...)
Canadian bank robber receives 5-year sentence in Singapore court; avoids a caning
A court in Singapore on Wednesday sentenced a Canadian man to five years in jail for robbing a bank in 2016, but he will not receive an additional sentence of six strokes of a cane due to the terms of ... ( read original story ...)
Analysis: Cash-Rich Singapore Airlines Positioned for Regional Dominance as Rivals Pull Back
Singapore Airlines Ltd (SIA), flush with $16 billion raised since the start of the pandemic thanks to help from a state investor, is in a position of dominance among its Southeast Asian rivals as they ... ( read original story ...)
Trade deficit widens in May with milder growth in exports, imports
Data released by the agency showed that the difference between exports and imports reached -$2.76 billion ... Hong Kong, and Singapore. Meanwhile, total imported goods reached $8.65 billion ... ( read original story ...)
Newly hatched turtles head for the sea in Singapore
A video recorded by Jonathan Tan from the National Parks Board showed a group of hatchlings walking into the waves."We were alerted to the hatching of about 100 Hawksbill turtle hatchlings at East ... ( read original story ...)
Globacom launches data roaming, 4G LTE services in China, UAE
Nigerian operator Globacom, has introduced pre-paid roaming, data roaming and 4G LTE services in China and the UAE ... India, Indonesia, Macau, Singapore, South Korea, Mongolia, Myanmar, Maldives, ... ( read original story ...)
Bukalapak’s $1.1 billion IPO, Indonesia’s biggest in a decade, covered on launch day – sources
SINGAPORE/JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesia’s biggest IPO in more than a decade, the billion dollar offering from e-commerce firm Bukalapak, received enough investor orders to cover the sale on its launch ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Property Dynasty Faces Climb After China Debacle
For Singapore’s richest property family, the turnaround of City Developments Ltd. is just beginning.A bungled Chinese investment has saddled the property developer with a $1.3 billion writedown, ... ( read original story ...)
GTE Localize Opens a New Office in Singapore
GTE Localize, a fast-growing translation and localization agency focusing on Asian languages, is pleased to announce the opening of its third office in Singapore. This is its latest geographic ... ( read original story ...)
Man jailed and fined for carrying stun device shaped like mobile phone
SINGAPORE - Intending to protect himself from his "enemies", a 30-year-old man bought a stun device that was shaped like an Apple iPhone.But Alexander Aw Boon Hao later brandished it when he ... ( read original story ...)
1 local unlinked case among 10 new COVID infections in Singapore
The Ministry of Health on Friday (9 July) confirmed 10 new COVID-19 cases in Singapore, taking the country's total case count to 62,678. ( read original story ...)
Facebook user claiming to be racist lecturer joins social media to apologize to Singapore
The lecturer who lost his job after berating an interracial couple has apparently set up a Facebook account to apologize publicly for his actions. ( read original story ...)
IPO-Bound Ola Raises $500Mn From Temasek, Warburg Pincus
Singapore government's investment fund Temasek ... founder Bhavish Aggarwal for a $500 Mn investment ahead of Ola’s IPO. This is amongst the largest investments in the Indian consumer internet ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore trader Ng Yu Zhi raised alarm bells months before arrest for investment fraud
Ng Yu Zhi continued accepting money from wealthy Singaporeans until his arrest in February, enticing them with purported investment gains that averaged 15 per cent a quarter. ( read original story ...)