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Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, 68, said on Saturday that he may have to delay his plans to step down as leader by the time he is 70 because of the novel coronavirus pandemic. "I had express ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong reshuffled his cabinet after three members stepped down following an election win earlier this month that saw popular support for the ruling People’s Action ... ( read original story ...)

A Singaporean man has pleaded guilty in the US to working as an agent of China, the latest incident in a growing stand-off between Washington and Beijing. Jun Wei Yeo was charged with using his ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore will complete testing for COVID-19 cases among migrant workers living in dormitories by Aug. 7, about four months after authorities started quarantining tens of thousands of workers in their ... ( read original story ...)

SPH is guiding for operating profit to be significantly lower in FY2020 vis-a-vis FY2019, given continued headwinds for its core media and property businesses. ( read original story ...)

Singapore reported on Friday a 6.7% drop in industrial output in June from a year ago, declining for the second straight month and missing forecasts, mainly due to a fall in pharmaceuticals ... ( read original story ...)

(Bloomberg) -- Thanks to the meteoric gain in glove-maker stocks, Malaysia’s equity market capitalization is close to surpassing that of its richer neighbor Singapore.Malaysia’s market value has surge ... ( read original story ...)

Bidzina Ivanishvili, the biggest victim of a rogue trader at Credit Suisse Group AG, is suing one of the bank’s trusts in Singapore for at least $300 million, opening a fresh front in the long-running ... ( read original story ...)

Prime office real estate in Singapore's central business district (CBD) is highly susceptible to the risk of flooding as sea levels rise due to global warming, property consultants CBRE said in a ... ( read original story ...)

International companies are increasingly avoiding Hong Kong as a jurisdiction for settling disputes through arbitration, one of the clearest signs yet that China’s tightening grip on the financial hub ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore’s tourism sector is facing an existential crisis, its tourism board chief said on Wednesday, laying out plans to boost local demand after a collapse in visitor arrivals ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore is appealing to its travel-hungry residents to support a battered hospitality sector in a bid to limit job losses. ( read original story ...)

Singapore's Health Sciences Authority has approved clinical trials for a coronavirus vaccine candidate being developed by Arcturus Therapeutics and Duke-NUS Medical school. Arcturus, a San Diego, ... ( read original story ...)

South Korea's Naver said on its official blog page that it has moved user backup data that was stored in Hong Kong to Singapore. The data in Hong Kong was destroyed between July 6 ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore may be one of the world's wealthiest and "smartest" countries, but there's one thing it has never had, until now - an official opposition party. After a recent surprising election, change is ... ( read original story ...)

One of South Korea’s biggest technology companies is abandoning Hong Kong as a base for data storage because of privacy fears. Naver — a Google rival that dominates the South Korean market for web ... ( read original story ...)