The series is dedicated to inspirational men and women in Singapore leading healthy and active lifestyles. This week: boxing personal trainer Tay Jia Wei.
ChatGPT is making its presence felt in classrooms. Here’s how schools in Singapore are harnessing it
With a generative AI chatbot like ChatGPT, the temptation to use it to write the perfect essay is real. CNA finds out how teachers in Singapore steer students away from plagiarism and towards ...
Singapore Airshow 2024 to feature largest number of foreign flying teams
Aviation enthusiasts will be able to catch a slew of aerial displays involving military aircraft from six air forces – five of them foreign – during the Singapore Airshow 2024, which will run from Feb ...
Street-hail rides dwindle as Singapore’s taxi population continues to shrink
Sticking your arm out to flag down a taxi has become a less popular – or more difficult – method of getting a ride.
Singapore’s super CNY celebration – Dragon-themed drone show, the biggest ever, lights up Marina Bay waterfront
Marina Bay Sands (MBS) staged the largest drone show in Singapore to date to celebrate the Year of the Dragon, featuring 1,500 synchronised drones along the Marina Bay Waterfront promenade.
Singapore Budget, Unstable Stablecoins: Sunday Asia Briefing
With China out for the weeklong lunar new year holiday, attention turns to corporate earnings in Japan and Australia and to Indonesia’s election, with Singapore’s budget wrapping up the week on Friday ...
Singapore hired 5,600 nurses last year, exceeding target of 4,000: Ong Ye Kung | Video
Health Minister Ong Ye Kung says the public healthcare sector hired 5,600 nurses in 2023, exceeding its target of 4,000. He says the new hires will help replace healthcare staff who left during the ...
Will Singapore’s birth rates get a boost in ‘auspicious’ year of the dragon?
A belief that those born in dragon years have ‘auspicious qualities’ has led many ethnic Chinese, in Singapore and the region, to try to conceive dragon babies.
Singapore court rules son of ex-PM Goh Chok Tong caused RM696 million in losses to fuel supplier company
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): The High Court has found Goh Jin Hian, a former director of insolvent marine fuel supplier Inter-Pacific Petroleum (IPP), liable for breach of director’s duties, ...
Turkish teen who was buried under rubble after earthquake is now in Singapore with family: ‘We weren’t sure if we would survive’
SINGAPORE - At about 4.15am on Feb 6, 2023, 14-year-old Mustafa Akpinar was trapped under the rubble of what was once a 13-storey building.The concrete from the structure that was once the teenager's ...
Singapore cracks down on Chinese influence
F ESTIVE FEVER” is how the Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre describes the national mood in the run-up to Chinese New Year on February 10th. A different fever troubles the go ...
Singapore’s Prime Minister Urges Citizens to Have More Babies During Year of the Dragon
Now is as good a time as any for young couples to add a ‘little dragon’ to your family,” Singapore premier Lee Hsien Loong said during his annual Lunar New Year message.
Marubeni, Engie Weigh Singapore’s Senoko Energy Exit, Sources Say
The majority shareholders of Senoko Energy Pte. are considering selling their stakes in the Singapore-based power firm, seeking a valuation of as much as $3 billion, according to people familiar with ...
Singapore’s Iswaran Gets Court Approval to Leave Country, CNA Reports
Singapore’s former Transport Minister S. Iswaran has received court approval to leave the country temporarily after being charged with corruption last month, according to local media reports.Most Read ...
Singapore Rejects Guocoland Bid For Prime Site As Housing Demand Eases
The government rejected the lone bid submitted by a consortium led by Malaysian billionaire Quek Leng Chan's Guocoland for a prime residential site in Marina Bay.
Iswaran allowed to leave Singapore temporarily; corruption case moved to High Court
Former Transport Minister S Iswaran, who was handed multiple bribery and corruption-related charges in January, was on Thursday (Feb 8) granted permission ...