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Singapore will begin levying a carbon tax starting in 2019 in an effort to reduce the country’s greenhouse gas emissions and help make companies there more competitive. Punishments for sexual offences and new penalties for sexual crimes targetting women ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore Airlines (SIA) passengers traveling between Singapore and Perth can soon board the new Boeing 787-10, with flights on the aircraft expected to begin in May. SIA said in a statement on Thursday that the Australian city will become the second ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore will criminalise skipping bail following the attempted escape of a man convicted in a high-profile fraud case at a megachurch, a senior government official said Thursday. In a case that gripped the city-state with a heady mix of religion, showbiz ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore: The looming demolition of a horseshoe-shaped tower block that symbolised Singapore’s growth from a port town to an affluent city-state has sparked soul-searching about whether enough is being done to protect the country’s recent history ... ( read original story ...)

Digital transformation is expected to add $10 billion (S$13.2 billion) to Singapore’s GDP by the year 2021, Microsoft said on Wednesday (Feb 21). An additional S$145 million is being set aside for Tech Skills Accelerator. The Government is also planning ... ( read original story ...)

Tan was similarly arrested for attempting to leave Singapore unlawfully. Yahoo News Singapore understands that when approached at sea, Chew and Tan told PCG officers that they were fishing, although there were no indications of them doing so at the point ... ( read original story ...)

Back in 1992, Singapore feared that its gleaming new subway would be wrecked by people using something sticky to disable automatic train doors — so it banned chewing gum. Twenty-six years later, the prohibition on the import, manufacture and sale of gum ... ( read original story ...)

A police statement said that preliminary investigations suggested Chew and the other man in the boat were "attempting to depart Singapore illegally," said a police statement. As well as fishing gear, the men were carrying S$5,000 ($3,800; £2,700 ... ( read original story ...)

It was the dawn of a new millennium. The whole world was having a nervous breakdown about the Y2K bug, and Hong Kong and Singapore were bitten by the art bug. The two former British trading ports turned regional economic powerhouses woke up to the fact ... ( read original story ...)

TRICHY: A five-member team of doctors from Singapore International Foundation (SIF), SingHealth and KK Women's and Children's Hospital in Singapore carried out an annual audit at the obstetrics and gynaecology department of Mahatma Gandhi memorial ... ( read original story ...)

Big jet makers logged no orders during Singapore Airshow. Boeing and Airbus both saw several milestones during or before the show. NMA discussions are ongoing. From the 6 th until the 11 th of February 2018, the Singapore Airshow took place. Due to ... ( read original story ...)

Some of us will insist that not all news is “fake”. But non-journalists seem increasingly of the view that the media industry is nefarious – just ask POTUS (the president of the United States) and Andrew Li, chairman of the Council of the University ... ( read original story ...)

Jeffrey Kong is an established brick artist in Singapore. He believes that it can be used to build all kinds of objects and express all areas of life - or even death. ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore said its sales tax will rise to 9 percent from 7 percent, but the change will only come “sometime” between 2021 and 2025, making it likely that the increase would kick in after the city-state’s next general election. ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore’s competition commission said on Monday it plans to do further in-depth assessment of the tie-up between the city-state’s top taxi operator, ComfortDelGro, and Uber [UBER.UL], after an initial review. The agency said it ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore said Monday it would impose a carbon tax from next year to cut its greenhouse gas emissions and make companies more competitive as global agreements on climate change take effect. Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat said the tax would be levied on ... ( read original story ...)