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Singapore’s top court ruled in favor of a claim by Noble Group Ltd.’s former Chief Executive Officer Ricardo Leiman to millions of unpaid shares, overturning an earlier ruling while upholding that he ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore Exchange faces a threat to its growth strategy after index provider MSCI decided to shift licensing of many derivatives to Hong Kong, jeopardising the status of what was just a month ago one ... ( read original story ...)

The American Chamber of Commerce in Singapore (AmCham Singapore) is pleased to announce the election of Lisa Liaw as Chair of the Board of Governors. Ms. Liaw assumed her role on May 11, 2020 and is ... ( read original story ...)

The Singapore stock market headed south again on Wednesday, one day after it had ended the three-day slide in which it had tumbled almost 80 points or 3.2 percent. The Straits Times Index now rests ... ( read original story ...)

The navies of the United States and Singapore conducted a bilateral exercise in the contested South China Sea this week, the U.S. Navy said Wednesday. ( read original story ...)

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 ...)

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 ...)

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 ...)

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’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 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 ...)

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’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 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 ...)

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 ...)

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 ...)