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SINGAPORE - Singaporeans' social media accounts and chat groups have been busy since news broke last Thursday (April 8) that Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat would step aside as leader of the ... ( read original story ...)

The sole community case confirmed on Saturday (April 10) is a 71-year-old female Indian national on a short-term visit pass. ( read original story ...)

His aides and sources have dismissed the rumours - one was that he had suffered a mild stroke and was taken to Singapore where he purportedly died, another was that plans were being drawn up for a ... ( read original story ...)

(Bloomberg) -- With the successor to Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong now out of the picture, the race to become the country’s next leader is suddenly wide open. Load Error Singapore ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is hoping to give further details and to announce the government’s decision on allowing Muslim nurses in the country to wear the tudung (head cover) at the ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE – The Ministry of Health (MOH) confirmed 32 new COVID-19 cases in Singapore as of noon on Saturday (10 April), taking the country's total case count to 60,633. One of the new cases is in the ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE - Alleged scammers involved in 534 cases which led to more than $9.3 million lost by the victims are under investigation by the police. A total of 329 suspects - 207 men and 122 women - are ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore has a thriving population of otters, which swam across the Johor Straits from Malaysia in the 1990s. They now live all over the island. ( read original story ...)

Carpooling app platform Ryde is focusing its attention on Singapore, which it says is critical to ensure the startup remains a viable business. It also is hoping a targeted IPO (initial public ... ( read original story ...)

There had been murmurs for a while about whether Singapore's deputy prime minister Heng Swee Keat would be the country's next leader after a poor showing in last year's general election. Yet ... ( read original story ...)

April 9 (UPI) --Singapore is on a search for its next leader after the country's handpicked successor to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said he will step aside to make way for the next generation. ( read original story ...)

Subscribe to our Telegram channel for the latest updates on news you need to know. SINGAPORE, April 9 — The defence counsel for a lawyer accused of misappropriating millions of dollars from his ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore's typically staid politics has been unsettled by an announcement from the chosen successor for prime minister that he was taking himself out of the running, renewing questions over the ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore’s succession plans have been upended by the unexpected stepping aside of Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat as the designated successor to Prime Minister Lee Hsien ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat's decision to step aside as heir apparent to the top job has thrown a spanner in the works at the country's carefully planned leadership succession, says ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat unexpectedly took himself out of the running for the country's top job. Gillian Koh of the National University of Singapore's Institute of Policy ... ( read original story ...)