This was the case for Maanasa Gopal, who embarked on a 30,000-kilometer-long journey from Singapore to deliver food all the way to a hungry customer in Antarctica. However, she made sure to document ...
Pool: Sharik traverses the globe for Singapore wedding before stunning world No. 1 in Puerto Rico
SINGAPORE – Like Singapore’s other top pool players, Sharik Sayed had been playing on the United States circuit since September. However, on Nov 6, the 32-year-old broke off from the pack that includes Aloysius Yapp and Toh Lian Han to embark on a ...
Nico Rosberg explains why it made ‘total sense’ to bring the Greentech Festival to Singapore
Nico Rosberg, a founder of the Greentech Festival, says Singapore has "ambitious plans" for a sustainable future and is also centrally located in Southeast Asia.
FTX vs Binance: this Singapore startup made a fun and educational game about the FTX fiasco
SINGAPORE, Nov. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The stunning implosion of FTX and its superstar founder Sam Bankman-Fried is reverberating across the global cryptocurrency landscape and has rattled investor faith. Although it might take months to get an accurate ...
Singapore Wholesale Trade Growth Eases In Q3
(RTTNews) - Singapore's domestic wholesale trade grew sharply in the three months ended September, data from the Department of Statistics showed Friday. At current prices, domestic wholesale sales climbed 12.4 percent year-over-year in the third quarter ...
In Singapore, prison workshop supervisor, four inmates charged with smuggling sedatives into jail
SINGAPORE, Nov 18 — A supervisor in a prison workshop was charged today (November 18) for smuggling sedatives into jail for inmates. Calvin Ang Wei Sheng, 39, who was a workshop supervisor at New Hope ...
Deep tech Singapore venture firm targets new US$200 mil fund
The Singapore-based firm, which is led by a team of mostly women, is targeting a fifth fund to add to its existing US$400 million-plus under management. “I started out investing in semiconductor ...
In wake of FTX collapse, Lawrence Wong says Singapore ‘not open to crypto speculation at all’
SINGAPORE: Singapore may want to go big on the "tremendous potential" of digital assets, but it is not open to crypto speculation at all, Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said on Thursday (Nov 17).
Singapore’s deputy PM: FTX case has raised ‘serious allegations’
The collapse of crypto exchange FTX has raised "very serious allegations that amount to potential fraud", Singapore's finance minister and deputy prime minister said on Thursday.
Singapore’s Wong Says Xi-Biden Meet Start of a Long Journey
Singapore’s prime minister-in-waiting said this week’s meeting between US President Joe Biden and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping was “a good start,” but the fundamentals between the competing ...
Singapore’s Wong Says Xi-Biden Meet Is a Start of a Long Journey
Singapore’s prime minister-in-waiting said that the meeting between US President Joe Biden and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping was “a good start,” but that the fundamentals between the competing ...
Singapore writes down $275 million in FTX, calls belief in Sam Bankman-Fried ‘misplaced’
Singapore has become the latest backer of crypto exchange FTX to admit being burned by its spectacular collapse.
Singapore’s Hell’s Museum demystifies death — with a smile
Singapore's Haw Par Villa is a sprawling complex of sculptures and exhibits focused on Buddhist beliefs. Its 10 Courts of Hell has finally been recognized as the star of the show and is the main ...
Singapore’s Temasek writes down $275M investment in FTX
FTX’s investors are continuing to deal with the fallout from the cryptocurrency’s bankruptcy. In a statement today, Temasek, the investment firm owned by Singapore’s government, said it write down its ...
Floods isolate Australian wheatbelt towns; Singapore joins rescue efforts
Hundreds of properties in Australia's southeast, scrubbed and cleaned two weeks ago after major flooding, were inundated again on Thursday as officials issued fresh evacuation orders while Singaporean ...
Singapore’s Temasek writes down $275 million investment in FTX
Singapore's state investor Temasek Holdings said on Thursday it will write down the value of its full investment in collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, irrespective of outcome of its bankruptcy ...