Raking in $17 million in its latest fund raising, GoBear will be looking to build up a "full-fledged financial services platform" and tap an estimated base of 300 million in the region who remain ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore puts $288M focus on digital transformation to help firms cope with pandemic fallout
Country's government is setting aside more than SG$500 million ($288.26 million) to facilitate local businesses in their digital transformation efforts, specifically, the adoption of e-payments, ... ( read original story ...)
Preventing food waste nets Apeel $250 million from Singapore’s government, Oprah, and Katy Perry
Food waste and the pressures on the global food supply chain wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic have captured headlines around the world, and one small startup based in the coastal California city of ... ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus Doesn’t Have to Be So Deadly. Just Look at Hong Kong and Singapore.
Hong Kong and Singapore’s coronavirus fatality rates are among the lowest in the world, showing that outbreaks don’t have to result in large-scale loss of life. Their playbook: test widely, quarantine ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Focuses on Jobs in New S$33 Billion Virus Relief
Singapore’s Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat delivered a fourth fiscal package of S$33 billion ($23 billion) to counter the economic fallout of the coronavirus, providing specific support to saving ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore warns its economy could shrink by 7% due to coronavirus
Singapore faces its sharpest contraction since independence after the city-state warned that its economy could shrink by 7 per cent in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. After initially winning ... ( read original story ...)
Death of ‘Mr Big’ stirs memories of Singapore’s gangland past
Early one October morning in 1969, Singapore police officers found the body of a man dumped in a storm drain. He had been stabbed to death, police said, in what became one of the country's most ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore Economy Could Contract 7%, Most Since Independence
Singapore’s economy is facing its worst contraction since independence more than a half-century ago as the coronavirus outbreak and measures to contain it pummel the trade-reliant city state. ( read original story ...)
Singapore cuts 2020 GDP outlook again as virus batters economy
Singapore downgraded its 2020 gross domestic product forecast for the third time on Tuesday, the trade ministry said, as the bellwether economy braces for its deepest ever recession. The city-state ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore cuts 2020 economic forecasts for the third time on coronavirus concerns
The Singapore economy is expected to shrink by between 4.0% and 7.0% this year, according to the Ministry of Trade and Industry. ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus live updates: U.S. cases top 1.6 million, Singapore slashes growth forecast again
The number of coronavirus cases in the U.S. topped more than 1.6 million as deaths rose to more than 97,000, a tally from Johns Hopkins University shows. President Donald Trump threatened to pull the ... ( read original story ...)
Germany to Bail Out Lufthansa; Singapore Stimulus: Virus Update
Dominic Cummings, one of Boris Johnson’s closest allies, refused to quit his job in the U.K. government, refuting claims he flouted lockdown rules that he had helped to draft. Germany agreed on a 9 ... ( read original story ...)
Virus-hit Singapore economy to shrink up to 7%: govt
Singapore's economy, a bellwether for global trade, could shrink by as much as 7.0 percent this year, as the coronavirus pandemic throttles demand, the government said Tuesday. The trade ministry ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore May Move to Second Phase of Reopening at End of June
Singapore will move to the next phase of re-opening around the end of June and resume more activities if all goes well, the city-state’s Minister for National Development Lawrence Wong said in a ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore’s health ministry confirms 344 fresh COVID-19 cases
Singapore's health ministry on Monday confirmed 344 more coronavirus cases, taking its tally of infections to 31,960. ( read original story ...)
Plan to Send Solar Power From Australia to Singapore Moves on
Survey work will soon begin on an ambitious plan to export power from a giant solar farm in Australia to Singapore via a 3,800 kilometer (2,360 mile) undersea cable. ( read original story ...)