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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 ...)

Meet Le Le (叻叻), the first ever panda cub born in Singapore, whose name was the overwhelming favourite chosen in a public poll. ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE - Singapore and China have pledged to explore new areas of collaboration - in particular in digital economy and green development - with the signing of 14 agreements at a high-level ... ( read original story ...)

SINGAPORE: The cub born to giant pandas Kai Kai and Jia Jia has been named after the results of a public vote were announced on Wednesday (Dec 29). The winning name with the highest number of votes is ... ( read original story ...)

More than half of Primary 4 to 6 students who have been invited to take their Covid-19 vaccinations have booked their appointments, and several thousand have already received their first dose, ... ( 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 ...)