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News. The exclusion of Singapore’s non-Chinese minorities has also been pointed out in the rom-com’s glossy portrayal of a secret, moneyed elite. While 76 per cent of the country’s population are Chin... ( read original story ...)

Singapore is known worldwide for its extravagance and wealth, and it's the setting of "Crazy Rich Asians," the summer blockbuster everyone's talking about based on the bestselling novel by Kevin Kwan. ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore is the setting for new Hollywood movie ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ - an adaptation of a best-selling novel that explores the insatiable consumerism of new money and old-world o... ( read original story ...)

Private home sales in Singapore soared to the highest in 16 months in July as buyers rushed to snap up properties hours before curbs aimed at quelling speculation came into effect. Developers sold 1,7... ( read original story ...)

(Bloomberg) -- Private home sales in Singapore soared to the highest in 16 months in July as buyers rushed to snap up properties hours before curbs aimed at quelling speculation came into effect. Load ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore will be looking to make a splash in the pool at the Asian Games in neighbouring Indonesia this month as Olympic gold medallist Joseph Schooling leads a strong swim team ... ( read original story ...)

(Bloomberg) -- Koh Boon Hwee overcame big crises during his four-decade career as a company executive. He led a national airline through the SARS epidemic in 2003, and steered Southeast Asia’s largest ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore police said on Tuesday an aircraft linked to an investigation into a multi-billion scandal at Malaysian state fund 1MDB was in the city-state but Malaysia had not made ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore hasn’t received any formal request from Malaysia to return financier Low Taek Jho’s private jet, part of the billions of dollars in assets that Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad is seeking to ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore is ranked as the 37th most liveable city in the world as Hong Kong overtook the Republic in the 2018 Global Liveability Survey. Last year, Singapore rose to its highest ever ranking at 35th ... ( read original story ...)

Raffles Singapore has unveiled its new line-up of dining experiences, which combine the hotel’s much-loved culinary traditions with contemporary dining concepts by renowned celebrity chefs. Each dinin... ( read original story ...)

Singapore’s non-oil domestic exports (NODX) jumped 9.4 per cent in the second quarter of 2018, driven by non-electronic exports, according to statistics released by trade agency Enterprise Singapore o... ( read original story ...)

Recently, however, drones have entered the news by supposedly being used in an attempt against ... Given these varying views, should we be worried about such things happening in Singapore? Have your s... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore police said on Tuesday an aircraft linked to an investigation into a multi-billion scandal at Malaysian state fund 1MDB is parked at the city-state’s Seletar Airport. S... ( read original story ...)

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- If Sherman Kwek sounds annoyed, he has his reasons — 2.9 million square feet worth of reasons. That figure, equating to 270,000 square meters, is the total salable area of apart... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong has surpassed Singapore in the latest Global Liveability Index put out by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), with the Little Red Dot dropping to the 37th spot this year. EIU’s annual lis... ( read original story ...)