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But on Tuesday (28 August), Ekawit, who was also a Singapore citizen until he was 22, pleaded guilty to one count of remaining outside the Republic without a valid exit permit between 17 April 2010 an... ( read original story ...)

The world’s best-performing activist fund returned 103 percent in seven months by targeting mainly smaller Asian companies in industries from commodities to engineering and food. Now, it’s getting rea... ( read original story ...)

Singapore’s primary stock exchange has announced a working partnership with the country’s central bank to develop a blockchain platform for securities’ settlements. In an announcement on Friday, the S... ( read original story ...)

The craze over blockchain technology is making its way to Singapore’s financial district, per a report in Coindesk. It emerged today that Singapore’s stock exchange is teaming up with the Monetary Aut... ( read original story ...)

Ride-hailing services have transformed the way people commute, but with some of them having exited as quickly as they had entered, Elizabeth Neo finds out if Singapore has the right environment for th... ( read original story ...)

Earlier this month, former Singaporean Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong was asked by a 70-year-old resident if the government could cut its lawmakers' sky-high pay to fund pensions for the elderly. Goh's ... ( read original story ...)

The government of Singapore claims the author of the book that inspired the hit film “Crazy Rich Asians” failed to register for mandatory national service. Kevin Kwan was born in Singapore but the lef... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Norwegian oil major Equinor said on Thursday it has hired two crude oil traders in Singapore to form a four-man team as it steps up trading and oil marketing in Asia. “We ... ( read original story ...)

Kevin Kwan, the author of the novel Crazy Rich Asians, which inspired the film of the same title, is wanted in his home country of Singapore for allegedly defaulting on his military service, the defen... ( read original story ...)

Singapore’s government says the author of the book that inspired the hit film Crazy Rich Asians failed to register for national service as required and faces up to three years in jail in the country. ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore's government says the author of the book that inspired the hit film Crazy Rich Asians failed to register for national service as required. According to his bio, writer Kevin Kwan was born in ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore's Olympic champion Joseph Schooling had an emphatic victory in the men's 100-meter butterfly final on Wednesday. By his own standards, the 23-year-old Schooling was a touch slow to get off t... ( read original story ...)

Singapore’s government says the author of the book that inspired the hit film Crazy Rich Asians failed to register for national service as required. According to his bio, writer Kevin Kwan was born in ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG — The author of “Crazy Rich Asians,” the best-selling novel on which the new hit film is based, never fulfilled his national service obligations in Singapore and could face a fine or potenti... ( read original story ...)

"Crazy Rich Asians" author Kevin Kwan faces up to three years in prison if convicted of draft-dodging in his home country of Singapore. All men in Singapore are required to serve two years of national ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The author of the book “Crazy Rich Asians”, which inspired the Hollywood hit film of the same title, is wanted in his home country of Singapore for defaulting on his military ser... ( read original story ...)