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Mr. Yee absorbed the news differently, posting a video on YouTube titled ... after Mr. Yee’s most recent conviction. In Singapore, “people are extremely sensitive,” said Melissa Chen, a Singaporean human rights activist who is now a legal permanent ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: After a record 24 straight months of negative readings, consumer prices in Singapore have finally stopped falling. Data released last Friday (Dec 23) showed the consumer price index (CPI), a measure of headline inflation, flat at zero per cent ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: The naughty list for Singapore financiers has rarely been so long. From the 1Malaysia Development Bhd-linked scandal to a 333-count front-running case and the largest market-manipulation prosecution in Singapore’s history, this year’s ... ( read original story ...)

NEW DELHI: India and Singapore would hold key dialogue here on Thursday and Friday to conclude protocol to amend bilateral Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement or DTAA which will modify capital gains tax exemption. India-Singapore DTAA came into force in ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore’s commodities-related defaults could turn out to be the canary in the mine. Despite a modest rebound in resource prices, restructuring specialists including KPMG and Hogan Lovells Lee & Lee see more Asia-Pacific commodities and shipping ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: The Singapore dollar may have recovered some lost ground after hitting multi-year lows against the greenback last week, but this momentum is unlikely to be sustainable when the new year comes around, analysts told Channel NewsAsia. Alongside ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: Food paradise Singapore is the second most vegan-friendly city in Asia after Taipei, animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) announced on Tuesday (Dec 27). Chiang Mai, Thailand and Makati city in the Philippines ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE - The Lion City has earned the No. 2 spot on ... where they're deprived of everything that's natural and important to them," Peta added in its news release. ( read original story ...)

Singapore shares closed 0.51 percent higher on Tuesday, but trading was thin as most major markets were closed. Latest data showed China’s industrial sector profit rose 14.5 percent in November from a year earlier, suggesting the economy there was ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore is developing a national action plan to tackle the problem of some bacteria becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics. This is even as more Singaporeans reach out to such medication as a quick fix for their ailments. The Ministry of Health ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore has earned the second spot on People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals' (PETA) list of top 10 most vegan-friendly cities in Asia. The animal rights group said that Singapore has a "roaring vegan scene," with a wide range of offerings such as ... ( read original story ...)

Reader Lam Peck Heng wrote in to askST after senior correspondent Goh Eng Yeow answered a question about Singapore's foreign reserves. Mr Lam asked, citing information from a Wikipedia article: "Can you explain to your readers why Singapore had an external ... ( read original story ...)

The Singaporean economy is slowing much faster than anticipated. The latest forecast by the Ministry of Trade and Industry Singapore (MTI) projects 2016 Singapore GDP growth at 1.0-1.5 per cent — the slowest since the 2009 fallout from the Global ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE – A Singaporean teenager whose video posts and blogs mocking his government and its late founder landed him in jail twice has been detained in the U.S. where he is seeking asylum, his lawyer and a human rights group said Saturday. The Human ... ( read original story ...)

Soaring thousands of metres in the air on a flight from New Zealand to Singapore, Mr Grant Rawlinson is preoccupied by what is beneath him. He completed an expedition in 2013 to summit the highest peaks in the North and South Island but his adventurous ... ( read original story ...)

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong posted a picture of green "snowmen" at the Singapore Botanic Gardens along with his Christmas greeting on his Facebook page yesterday. "Merry Christmas to one and all! 25 December is a joyous day for Christians ... ( read original story ...)