SINGAPORE (Reuters) - China has choked back on imports of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) from the United States, traders and analysts said, turning to the Middle East for extra supplies amid the ... ( read original story ...)
Oil prices rise ahead of November U.S. sanctions against Iran crude exports
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Oil prices rose on Friday, lifted by looming U.S. sanctions against Iran’s crude exports that are set to start next month. The gains helped claw back some of the losses ... ( read original story ...)
Former presidential candidate Tan Kin Lian busted at Singapore customs for trying to bring in aphrodisiac Tongkat Ali
Former presidential candidate Tan Kin Lian took to Facebook yesterday to say that he was busted at the Changi Airport by a customs officer who wanted to know if he was carrying any Tongkat Ali ... ( read original story ...)
Gold cascades out of Singapore to poor Cambodia, probably for smuggling into Vietnam
It is also $12 billion more than the value of all of Cambodia's other imports from Singapore during the same period, said the monitor group based on publicly available records from the Ministry of Com... ( read original story ...)
S’pore halts import of iceberg lettuce from M’sia with high levels of pesticide: Reports
SINGAPORE: The Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) has suspended the import of fresh produce from the Malaysian farm that produced iceberg lettuce with high levels of pesticide, The Straits Times ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore could lure global wealth with passage of new VCC Bill
Analysts are confident that the law will bring tremendous benefits to the local asset management industry. Singapore Business Review caught up with partners from two law firms to discuss how the bill ... ( read original story ...)
Advocacy Group Raises Questions About Cambodia’s Gold Imports
It is also $12 billion more than the value of all of Cambodia's other imports from Singapore during the same period, said the monitor group based on publicly available records from the Ministry of Com... ( read original story ...)
South American exports help shipping industry offset trade war fallout
SINGAPORE -- Exports from South America are helping the shipping industry to fend off the effects of the U.S.-China trade war, the chief of shipping information provider Baltic Exchange said in an ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore: Elderly woman fined $7,000 for smuggling 490 duck eggs from Vietnam
A 63-year-old woman was caught red-handed while importing 490 duck eggs illegally that contained developing embryos into Singapore. As a penalty for the offence, on Wednesday, October 3 she was fined ... ( read original story ...)
Woman fined $7,000 for smuggling 490 balut eggs into Singapore
The import of food, including meat and eggs, and their products, are regulated for animal health and food safety reasons. Meat and eggs, and their products, can only be imported from accredited source... ( read original story ...)
Singapore’s Changi international airport to present humanless automated travel experiencea
First of all, it should be noted that the focus is to reduce the manual functions as future airports would not include human officials, except one customs officer. Here, in Singapore, as the plane joi... ( read original story ...)
Singapore fuel oil inventories jump as weekly exports fall to over 7-year low
SINGAPORE, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Singapore fuel oil inventories jumped 15 percent to a 10-week high in the week to Sept. 26, boosted by thin export volumes, official data showed on Thursday. - Singapore ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore keeps status as leader in Asian business education
The late Lee Kuan Yew, often referred to as the founder of modern Singapore, aspired to the city state becoming the education hub of Asia — or, in his words, the “Boston of the East”. This vision, tog... ( read original story ...)
FairPrice halts Aussie strawberry imports
Supermarket chain FairPrice stopped all strawberry imports from Australia on Monday, in the light of alleged incidents Down Under where consumers found needles in the fruit. Another supermarket chain ... ( read original story ...)
NTUC FairPrice stops strawberry imports from Australia; AVA in touch with authorities there
SINGAPORE - Supermarket chain NTUC FairPrice has stopped all strawberry imports from Australia on Monday (Sept 24), in the light of more than 100 alleged incidents in Australia where consumers found n... ( read original story ...)
SE Asia Stocks-Rise on report of China’s plan to slash import tariffs
Philippine shares jumped on Friday after a report that China would cut import tariffs for most of its trading partners, sidelining wider trade war worries, while Singapore shares hit their highest in ... ( read original story ...)