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SINGAPORE: An election featuring a controversial racial provision will be held later this month to choose a successor to Singapore President Tony Tan, who stepped down on Thursday after completing his six-year term. The election for the mainly ceremonial ... ( read original story ...)

A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. Alaska Airlines is adding Singapore Airlines to its already broad line-up of frequent-flier partners. The carriers announced their partnership on Wednesday, saying they’ll offer reciprocal frequent-flier ... ( read original story ...)

A Perth man will spend six-and-a-half months behind bars in Singapore after a two-week drunken rampage where he assaulted police and 'caused annoyance'. Jason Peter Darragh arrived in Singapore on April 20 on a stopover to the Philippines, Perth Now reported. ( read original story ...)

Singapore’s emphasis on the security of its critical infrastructures is necessary to safeguard general public safety and compel these systems to keep pace with current security landscape. SINGAPORE’S three banks – DBS Bank, OCBC Bank and United ... ( read original story ...)

Qantas flights out of Australia will no longer stop in Dubai, with the daily Sydney to London route going via Singapore instead. With Melbourne to London flights already flying via Perth and then non-stop to Europe, the March 2018 move means passengers ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore notched up a victory over rival aviation hub Dubai as Qantas Airways Ltd. rerouted its classic Kangaroo Route to the U.K. through Asia. With travel demand surging in Asia, Australia’s national carrier will fly from Sydney to London through ... ( read original story ...)

A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. Alaska Airlines is adding Singapore Airlines to its already broad line-up of frequent-flier partners. The carriers announced their partnership on Wednesday, saying they’ll offer reciprocal frequent-flier ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE - President Tony Tan Keng Yam, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan have written congratulatory letters to their Malaysian counterparts on Tuesday (Aug 30), ahead of Malaysia's 60th Merdeka Day on Wednesday (Aug ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore — a city that pioneered traffic taming — is now experimenting with a per-kilometre charge using a GPS tracking device to monitor distance, zone and time of day. Major U.S. cities such as Chicago, Los Angeles and Seattle have opted for user ... ( read original story ...)

GRAB Inc and a unit of the Toyota Motor Corporation on Wednesday announced a collaboration targeted at Grab drivers, rather than towards users of the ride-sharing platform. A pre-school with capacity for 2,100 children officially opened in Singapore on ... ( read original story ...)

Having recognised early the benefits of China’s One Belt, One Road (OBOR) push, Singapore has actively supported it and is well-positioned to make gains from it, Home Affairs and Law Minister K. Shanmugam said in a lecture yesterday. Singapore’s edge ... ( read original story ...)

KUALA LUMPUR: The chef de mission for Team Singapore's 2017 SEA Games campaign Milan Kwee hailed the country's overall display on Wednesday (Aug 30), calling it a "performance Singaporeans can be proud of". "It has been a brilliant display by Team ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: A Singaporean boat captain who was detained in Indonesia for 16 months arrived home safely on Tuesday (Aug 29) after being deported, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) said in a media statement. Shoo Chiau Huat was ferrying Singaporean and ... ( read original story ...)

A 40m-tall heritage tree that toppled and killed a woman at the Singapore Botanic Gardens in February did not have a cavity in its trunk that was a result of decay, said a senior National Parks Board official, countering an assessment earlier by an ... ( read original story ...)

QANTAS is ditching Dubai and returning to Singapore for its flights to London in a dramatic turnaround. The airline announced this morning it is applying to extend its partnership with Emirates for another five years in a move that will see flying kangaroo ... ( read original story ...)

These are external links and will open in a new window Anyone who lives in Singapore has walked a short distance, only to find themselves sweating through their shirt. Three local companies think electric scooter-sharing services could be an answer. ( read original story ...)