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Singapore's gold medal hope Max Maeder is a poster child for sailing's sea change since the last Olympics, with 'foiling' classes such as his kiteboarding discipline making up half of the 10 events in ...

SINGAPORE: 2024 has been a record-breaking year for cases of dengue worldwide, including areas that don’t usually see the illness. In Singapore, the number of cases so far this year has already ...

Singapore edged past France, Germany, Italy and Spain to reclaim bragging rights as having the world’s most powerful passport.

SINGAPORE – Even though she was feeling under the weather, Singaporean opera soprano Shimona Rose Thevathasan clinched the Pendine International Voice of the Future award at the Llangollen ...

Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC's main gauge of investment return posted its weakest growth in four years, and said high interest rates, China economic difficulties and geopolitical tension would ...

The Major Payment Institution license would allow for the company to offer regulated Digital Payment Token services, such as custody.

By most measures, Karthik Rajan’s farm in Singapore is a success story. Run from a two-hectare plot of land in the island’s north, LivFresh has been supplying major supermarkets with spinach, lettuce ...

Singapore’s GIC, one of the world’s biggest institutional investors, has said it will seek to buy stakes in multinational companies’ China units if they exit the country amid slowing growth and rising ...

Also today: How Paris cleaned up the Seine, and Airbnb hosts want guests to come to them directly.

A 111-square-metre public housing flat sold for a record S$1.73 million (US$1.28 million) in Singapore this week has reignited debate about home affordability in the city state, with analysts warning that efforts to cool down the public housing market may ...

Singapore has continued to rank as the country with the world's most powerful passport for the second year in a row. This year's Henley Passport Index shows access to visa-free travel has generally improved worldwide but the gap between those ranked at the ...

Singapore’s ride-hailing and food delivery company Grab is expanding its services beyond ride and food delivery by doubling down on the competitive restaurant booking industry in Southeast Asia. Grab confirmed to TechCrunch that it acquired a Singapore-based dining reservation platform,

The new plant will be one of the most highly automated among the company’s manufacturing sites, Read more at straitstimes.com.

Pfizer Inc. has invested S$1 billion ($743 million) to expand its automated active pharmaceutical ingredient manufacturing facility in Singapore.

Singapore's central bank is widely expected to keep monetary policy unchanged this week and hold off easing settings amid lingering risks to the inflation outlook caused by geopolitical tensions. Of ...

Singapore's key consumer price gauge rose 2.9% in June from a year earlier, lower than economists' forecasts and the lowest reading since March 2022, official data showed on Tuesday. The core ...