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The electricity tariff for the first quarter of 2022 will increase by an average of 5.6 per cent for households in Singapore due to higher fuel costs, SP Group said. ( read original story ...)

CIMB Singapore's online banking system was reportedly down for three consecutive days since Monday (Dec 27), with one user complaining that his transferred funds had gone missing.According ... ( read original story ...)

Finance Minister Lawrence Wong will deliver Singapore’s FY2022 Budget Statement on Friday, 18 February 2022 in Parliament. ( read original story ...)

At his lowest point in life, Jonathan Quek was left with less than $6 in his bank account — insufficient even to pay for his daughter's primary school fees.The letter from the Ministry of Education ... ( read original story ...)

Finance Minister Lawrence Wong will deliver Singapore's 2022 Budget statement in Parliament on February 18 next year, a Friday. The Ministry of Finance (MoF) said today that there will be live ... ( read original story ...)

The government will navigate challenges that test its status as a financial center. Plus a selection of the columnist’s best work from the past year. ( read original story ...)

The Singapore stock market has tracked higher in two straight sessions, gathering almost 35 points or 1.1 percent along the way. The Straits Times Index now sits just beneath the 3,140-point plateau ... ( read original story ...)

Then 46, she received her first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine on Dec 30, 2020. . Read more at straitstimes.com. ( read original story ...)

A Chinese panda cub born to giant pandas Kai Kai and Jia Jia in Singapore has been named following the results of a public vote announced on Wednesday. The winning name with the highest number of ... ( read original story ...)

Blame pandemic stress, a leadership failure, or the stoking of old grievances, but racism crawled out of the shadows and into plain view in Singapore too often this year, to the shame of its pride as ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: Singapore reported 341 new COVID-19 cases as of noon on Wednesday (Dec 29), including 153 imported infections. There was also one fatality, taking the country's death toll from coronavirus ... ( read original story ...)

Chinese Vice Premier Han Zheng on Wednesday met with Singaporean Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat via video link, pledging to jointly fight the COVID-19 pandemic and enhance bilateral cooperation. ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: Singapore and China on Wednesday (Dec 29) reiterated their commitment to free and open trade at an annual top-level bilateral meeting. The 17th Joint Council for Bilateral Cooperation (JCBC ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE — Singapore continues to face the challenges of living with the COVID-19 pandemic but “things are improving”, said President Halimah Yacob on Wednesday (29 December). In a year-end message ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: Travellers are allowed to bring a limited number of COVID-19 self-test kits into Singapore if the kits have been approved for use in their country of embarkation, the Health Sciences ... ( read original story ...)

In some instances, retailers trying to move stock offer discount after discount to little effect. . Read more at straitstimes.com. ( read original story ...)