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PRNewswire/ -- ipaymy, the Singapore based payment optimisation platform for small businesses, has announced the launch ... ( read original story ...)

A yellow robot dog called Spot which found fame online for dancing to hit song "Uptown Funk" has been deployed to patrol a Singapore park and ensure people observe social distancing. ( read original story ...)

Singapore's health ministry said on Thursday it confirmed another 448 coronavirus cases, taking the city-state's tally of infections to 29,812. Most of the newly reported cases are from migrant-worker ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore has sentenced a drug suspect to death at a hearing held on the videoconferencing app Zoom because of the city-state's coronavirus lockdown. ( read original story ...)

Scientists in Singapore are developing a vaccine for the coronavirus, with hopes that early-stage clinical trials could come as soon as next month, according to a professor at Duke-NUS Medical School. ( read original story ...)

Singapore is just a whisker away from joining the global negative-rate club. The nation’s overnight borrowing rate was less than two basis points above zero on Tuesday, down from the year’s high of 1. ( read original story ...)

The sentencing of a man in Singapore to death via Zoom video for his role in a 2011 drug deal has outraged human rights activists who call issuing capital punishment verdicts during the coronavirus ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore has sentenced a drug suspect to death on the popular videoconferencing app Zoom because of the city-state’s coronavirus lockdown, in a move slammed by a human rights group as callous and ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore has sentenced a drug suspect to death on the popular video chat app Zoom because of the city-state's coronavirus lockdown, a move slammed by a human rights group as callous and inhumane ... ( read original story ...)

A man has been sentenced to death in Singapore via a Zoom video-call for his role in a drug deal, the city-state's first case where capital punishment has been delivered remotely. Punithan Genasan, a ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore Trade & Industry Minister Chan Chun Sing said there are many “downside risks” to the economy despite recent data showing a surprise improvement in exports. ( read original story ...)

The coronavirus has infected more than 4.82 million people globally, and killed at least 318,851 people as of Tuesday. ( read original story ...)

The European Union criticized President Donald Trump’s threat to permanently freeze U.S. funding to the World Health Organization, saying the fight against the coronavirus required global cooperation. ( read original story ...)

A third of the workforce will resume on-site operations in sectors that include manufacturing, production, finance, insurance and wholesale trade, and the remainder will work from home, Trade and ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore will allow more businesses to reopen on June 2 -- increasing the active proportion of the economy to three-quarters -- after a nationwide lockdown cut transmission of the coronavirus among ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore has apologised to more than 350 people who contracted COVID-19 for accidentally sending them a text message saying they had tested positive again, the health ministry said. A technical ... ( read original story ...)