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A United Kingdom-based company’s attempt to recover its gains from a Singapore-registered virtual currency exchange platform has been dismissed by the Singapore International Commercial Court. In what is one of the first cases of its kind here ... ( read original story ...)

Just a street away from Singapore’s central bank, a cryptocurrency firm has set up what it claims is the first cafe in the city-state to be owned and operated by a business promoting its own digital coin. The downtown pitstop, which launched on Thursday ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE - A gay Singaporean man travelled to the United States and paid US$200,000 to father a boy through surrogacy arrangements. A district judge has rejected his bid to adopt the child - now four years old - whom he brought back with him to Singapore ... ( read original story ...)

Spanish frozen yogurt chain llaollao, popular for their fro-yo that comes with a variety of toppings, had all their outlets in Singapore replaced with another European yogurt chain called Yolé on 9 December. Of course, this news made everyone rush down to ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore’s economy is expected to have lost some steam in the fourth quarter, but may show enough momentum to keep alive expectations of a monetary policy tightening next year. Gross domestic product (GDP) in the October-December ... ( read original story ...)

In the three years since artist Louise Hill left Hong Kong for Singapore with her family, she has lived in three of the city state’s most sought-after forms of housing: a gleaming, contemporary town house on the resort island of Sentosa; a Peranakan ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore’s industrial production in November rose less than expected from a year earlier, underscoring expectations for a moderation in the city-state’s economic growth in the fourth quarter. Manufacturing output rose 5.3 percent ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean will join India's External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj for a two-day ASEAN-India Pravasi Bharatiya Divas to be held here next month. Apart from Swaraj, Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE - Lady luck could be smiling on you in the New Year. The Singapore Pools has announced that its New Year Toto Draw will take place on Jan 5 at 9.30pm, with a $5 million top prize up for grabs. The draw will be held at the Singapore Pools Building ... ( read original ...

2017 was a horrible year for Singapore’s government — and for Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in particular, which began with an open and vocal stoush with China. Singapore’s Keppel Corp Ltd said the impact of a mammoth fine borne by its offshore unit ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: It's another quiet day at the Armenian Church compound, where music conductor Gevorg Sargysyan is busy overseeing the construction of the museum and gallery. Except for the occasional tourist, the place is mostly empty. The next time it comes ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore has been a safe harbor – to date – in the volatile Southeast Asian region, which has been plagued by intermittent terrorist attacks. But Lion City has been on high alert and a growing number of its citizens fear that the wealthy city-state ... ( read original story ...)

In Singapore no one is above the law ... allowed the convoy to come quickly to the scene in the event of an emergency, they added. The online news reported that the police and LTA have reviewed this incident and SecCom officers have been reminded to ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Just a street away from Singapore's central bank, a cryptocurrency firm has set up what it claims is the first cafe in the city-state to be owned and operated by a business promoting its own digital coin. The downtown pitstop, which ... ( read original story ...)

The only recent piece of analysis that leaves much food for thought is Ku Swee Yong’s three-part articles on “Big Singapore Market Upgrade – Hype or Reality?” where he questions Morgan Stanley’s remarks that “property prices are on track to ... ( read original story ...)

(CNN) — Singapore's illustrious hotel history may have started with Raffles, but it took many decades for another new hotel -- the Marina Bay Sands in 2010 -- to capture travelers' popular imagination in the same way. Since then, the hotel scene in ... ( read original story ...)