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Should downside risks materialise, Singapore's ample fiscal buffers can be further drawn upon as a first line of defence, it added.. Read more at straitstimes.com. ( read original story ...)

A Singaporean couple have been arrested over the death of a newborn baby found dumped in the trash in Taiwan two years ago, police in the city-state said. ( read original story ...)

Researchers in Singapore have found a way of controlling a Venus flytrap using electric signals from a smartphone, an innovation they hope will have a range of uses from robotics to employing the ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore has warned of a higher risk of community transmission as health workers battle clusters of new variants of Covid-19. After six months of low daily community cases, often in single digits, ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore, battling an uptick in Covid-19 cases after months of success in containing the pandemic, says the virus situation is at a tipping point as it grapples with the costs of imposing more ... ( read original story ...)

Myanmar's army needs to cooperate to end the crisis since the Feb. 1 coup and Southeast Asian countries should keep pressing it to show restraint and start dialogue with its opponents, Singapore's ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore is on a "knife's edge with Covid-19 cases that could go either way over the next few weeks, but the country cannot completely shutdown its borders as it is not self-sufficient and need to ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore still expects to complete its COVID-19 inoculation programme by the end of the year, the health minister said on Tuesday, though the city-state is also looking to secure more sources of ... ( read original story ...)

Unlike bigger countries such as China and Australia, the city state cannot shut itself off forever, says Lawrence Wong as he warns Singapore is ‘on a knife’s edge’. ( read original story ...)

The Ministry of Health (MOH) on Monday (10 May) confirmed 25 new COVID-19 cases in Singapore, taking the country's total case count to 61,403. ( read original story ...)

A former director at BP Singapore and an executive at a Singapore-based marine fuels supplier were each sentenced on Tuesday to four and a half years in jail for corruption. Chang Peng Hong Clarence ... ( read original story ...)

Some in Singapore are turning to urban farming in this land-scarce city, as they look for ways to turn waste into resources for electronics or cosmetics. ( read original story ...)

Singapore captain Hariss Harun has left Malaysian giants Johor Darul Ta'zim to return home to play with the Lion City Sailors. ( read original story ...)

German vaccine developer BioNTech SE selected Singapore as its Southeast Asia headquarters and first Asia-Pacific hub, giving a boost to supply of an mRNA vaccine that’s been extraordinarily effective ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore endorsed a former ruling party chairman to oversee the media business of a restructured Singapore Press Holdings Ltd., as a senior minister defended the independence of the city-state’s news ... ( read original story ...)

The new manufacturing site would be able to produce several hundred of million doses of mRNA-based vaccines per year, depending on the type, BioNTech said. ( read original story ...)