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Snap lockdowns cannot "go on forever" if Singapore is to retain its competitiveness and viability, but the country's reopening will depend on its vaccination rate, said Health Minister Ong Ye Kung on ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: Singapore’s vaccination rates are currently “still not high enough” to provide sufficient protection in the population, said co-chair ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore's government said it will further eased Covid-related restrictions next week, but by a slower pace than previously announced as local infections have not decline significantly. Starting ... ( read original story ...)

Ex-pat Benjamin Glynn, 39, from Yorkshire, was arrested by officers as he slept hours after the video of him maskless on a train was uploaded to social media by a fellow commuter ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore has decided to scale down reopening, allowing people to dine-in at restaurants and go to gyms -- although in smaller-sized groups -- as the number of Covid-19 cases has climbed in recent ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore will allow dining at restaurants to resume from Monday under loosened coronavirus restrictions, though will limit diners to groups of two, instead of up to five as previously planned, the ... ( read original story ...)

Dining-in at food and beverage establishments will continue to resume from next Monday (21 June) but only in groups of two. ( read original story ...)

A British man has been detained in Singapore and faces up to six months in prison after a video appeared on Facebook of him riding a train without a facemask. Father-of-two Benjamin Glynn, 39, ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE - Households in Singapore across all major ethnic groups have brought in higher incomes over the last 10 years amid a growing trend of married, dual-career couples. More Singapore residents ... ( read original story ...)

According to media reports, Ngee Ann Polytechnic (NP) in Singapore said it is planning to fire the senior lecturer who was recorded making racist remarks against an Indian-Chinese descent couple. ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: An Indonesian man who had entered Singapore without valid documentation was among the new imported COVID-19 cases reported on Thursday ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE - Wet markets can fit a large number of people in a compact space and people have continued to flock to them even during the recent period of heightened alert.It is not surprising, therefore ... ( read original story ...)

In-patient hospitalisation coverage for Covid-19 vaccination complications by all seven insurers offering Integrated Shield Plans will now be extended to vaccines brought in under the special access ... ( read original story ...)

As Singapore navigates its post-pandemic recovery, CNBC's Martin Soong asks finance minister Lawrence Wong what it means for the city-state's economic future. ( read original story ...)

But the Covid-19 pandemic forced the startup to scrap that launch last year and accelerate its plans to become a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO), tweaking global features to suit local mobile ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE—The AFP reports that the site of two shipwrecks has been investigated off Singapore’s easternmost point by researchers from Singapore’s National Heritage Board and the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak ... ( read original story ...)