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The Singapore prime minister's nephew was found guilty of contempt of court and charged S$15,000 ($10,883.76) by the city-state's top court on Wednesday, local broadcaster Channel NewsAsia reported. L ... ( read original story ...)

GIC has posted its lowest rate of return since the global financial crisis as the Singapore sovereign wealth fund braces for deeper geopolitical and market uncertainties due to the coronavirus ... ( read original story ...)

The long-term returns of Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC have dropped within a whisker of a record low struck during the financial crisis, and its chief executive cautioned on Tuesday that the ... ( read original story ...)

GIC Pte has reported its worst 20-year annualized result in more than a decade and warned of lower returns and elevated market volatility as the coronavirus outbreak ravages global economies. ( read original story ...)

Singapore's ruling party must open up to much greater debate of its policies and future plans, its prime minister said on Monday, after an election in which the opposition made historic inroads into ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore recorded more than 460 new cases of the coronavirus on Monday, bringing its total to more than 50,300. The country's Ministry of Health said that 469 new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed on ... ( read original story ...)

High taxes and costs, bloated bureaucracies and cultural differences in some of these Asia-Pacific nations present formidable challenges for the Hong Kong financial institutions t ... ( read original story ...)

The Singapore stock market has alternated between positive and negative finishes though the last four trading days since the end of the three-day slide in which it had dropped almost 35 points or 1.2 ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore marks 55 years of independence in 2020 - a challenging year for the small nation as it continues to fight the global COVID-19 pandemic. On Sunday (Jul 26), a rehearsal was held at the Padang ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore will start human trials as early as this week for a Covid-19 vaccine being developed by Duke-NUS Medical School and American pharmaceutical company Arcturus Therapeutics, the Straits Times ... ( read original story ...)

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the decision was taken because China was "stealing" intellectual property. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin responded by sayin ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong named a largely unchanged cabinet on Saturday following an election win this month, and flagged a possible delay, due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, of his ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, 68, said on Saturday that he may have to delay his plans to step down as leader by the time he is 70 because of the novel coronavirus pandemic. "I had express ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong reshuffled his cabinet after three members stepped down following an election win earlier this month that saw popular support for the ruling People’s Action ... ( read original story ...)

A Singaporean man has pleaded guilty in the US to working as an agent of China, the latest incident in a growing stand-off between Washington and Beijing. Jun Wei Yeo was charged with using his ... ( read original story ...)

Singapore will complete testing for COVID-19 cases among migrant workers living in dormitories by Aug. 7, about four months after authorities started quarantining tens of thousands of workers in their ... ( read original story ...)