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SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Singapore's second-largest lender Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp Ltd (OCBC) reported a better-than-expected 28% jump in quarterly profit on Wednesday as it benefited from rising ... ( read original story ...)

Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen responded to clarifications sought on the Singapore Armed Forces and Other Matters Bill. The Bill was passed. There was then a second reading of the Constitution of the ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore is working on a range of measures to counter the impact to rising temperatures driven by global warming, its Minister for Sustainability and the Environment said, according to a Straits ... ( read original story ...)

Leader of the Opposition Pritam Singh said the Workers’ Party would vote against the Constitution of the Republic of Singapore (Amendment No. 2) Bill as a matter of principle. That is because the Bill ... ( read original story ...)

The Monetary Authority of Singapore is currently assessing its approach to the regulation of stablecoins following May's collapse of algorithmic stablecoin TerraUST (UST-USD). As ... ( read original story ...)

The Singapore Armed Forces’ new Digital and Intelligence Service cannot operate in a silo; all the armed services must continually digitalise to keep their edge on the battlefield. MP Gerald Giam made ... ( read original story ...)

Award-winning DJs Tiesto and Zedd will be spinning at ZoukOut Singapore on 2 and 3 Dec, respectively, on Sentosa’s Siloso Beach. Both are currently resident DJs of Zouk Las Vegas. The festival will be ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore has insisted that it has not provided any priviliges or immunity to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the former president of Sri Lanka who fled the cash-strapped nation amid anti-government protests last ... ( read original story ...)

Safe management measures for visitors to hospital wards and residential care homes will be extended for another four weeks, till Aug 31. ( read original story ...)

T (MAS), the country's central bank, is "actively reviewing" its approach to regulating stablecoins, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, the minister in charge of the bank, said. The bank is "assessing the merits ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: Singapore took home the bronze medal in the badminton mixed team event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games after beating England 3-0 on Tuesday (Aug 2). Terry Hee Yong Kai and Jessica Tan Wei ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE - A 12th monkeypox case was detected in Singapore on Monday (Aug 1). The man, 59, is a local unlinked case with no recent travel history, said the Ministry of Health on its website on ... ( read original story ...)

With Singapore’s military setting up a new branch to face growing threats in the digital domain, MP Vikram Nair wanted to know when the Digital and Intelligence Service (DIS) will be operationally ... ( read original story ...)

The Southeast Asian city-state has hanged eight prisoners since March, drawing criticism from international human-rights groups. ( read original story ...)

Former Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled from his country to Singapore amid massive protests against his government last month. ( read original story ...)

Former Reform Party chairman Charles Yeo is wanted by the Singapore police, after he failed to return to the country, breaching court conditions for his overseas travel. ( read original story ...)