In the latest round of property cooling measures announced on Apr 26, what stood out was the 60 per cent additional buyer's stamp duty (ABSD) for foreigners looking to buy in Singapore. While they ...
$500,000 grand prize awarded to developmental initiative to eradicate poverty in Singapore
On May 4, 2023, the inaugural =Dreams Asia Breakthrough Prize Award Ceremony was held at Parkroyal Collection Pickering. The first nation-wide competition offered a grand prize of $500,000 for ...
KAWS Has Won a Key Victory in His Lawsuit Against a Singapore Counterfeiter Churning Out Knockoffs of His Toys and Art
Brian Donnelly, aka KAWS, has scored a major legal victory against a man who he accused of counterfeiting, with others, replicas of the artist’s signature “Companion” figure and other toys, ...
Lawmakers urge SEC to look into Shein use of Uyghur forced labor before IPO offering
A bipartisan group of congressmen is asking the Securities and Exchange Commission to force the popular clothing store Shein to prove that it does not use forced Uyghur labor in the making of its ...
FedEx (FDX) to Shift Asia Base to Singapore From Hong Kong
FedEx Corp. is planning on moving its Asia-Pacific regional headquarters to Singapore from Hong Kong — another blow to the city’s image as an international business hub.
FedEx Plans to Move Asia Headquarters, Executives to Singapore From Hong Kong
FedEx Corp. is planning on moving its Asia-Pacific regional headquarters to Singapore from Hong Kong — another blow to the city’s image as an international business hub.
What caught your eye this week? (Arm IPO, Smallest LED, Telexistence technologies)
Nasa highlights that the Czech Republic has become the 24th country to sign the Artemis Accords. The Register reports that the U.S. President Joe Biden is proposing tax “designed to counter the ...
Singapore’s Moment Is Here. Will It Last?
The city-state has stolen a march on rival Hong Kong, but rising U.S.-China tensions and a housing bubble are looming threats.
Woman gets 6 months’ jail for arranging sham marriage so daughter can extend stay in Singapore
Hoping to find a way for her daughter to remain in Singapore for a prolonged period of time, Luong Thi My Hang hatched a plan to arrange a paid marriage-of-convenience between her daughter and a ...
Singapore COE prices fall for all but one category in first bid with new quota
SINGAPORE — Certificate of Entitlement (COE) premiums fell in all categories with the exception of Category C vehicles, based on the latest bidding exercise which closed on Thursday (4 May). This is ...
Singtel offers insurance plan that waives customers’ mobile bill up to $600 if they are retrenched
SINGAPORE – Singtel postpaid mobile users who are eligible can get one year of free insurance coverage for their bills in the event of retrenchment or accidental death. The local telco and Etiqa ...
Technology enables conversion of mobile phone cameras into high-resolution microscopes
Researchers in Singapore have developed the world's smallest LED (light ... into microscopes via only modifications to the silicon chip and software. This technology also represents a significant step ...
Alibaba’s Global Online Commerce Arm Weighs a US IPO
Deliberations around an IPO are very preliminary and the situation may change ... It competes with Amazon and Sea Ltd.’s Shopee in Southeast Asian markets such as Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore. In ...
Lawrence Wong: In Singapore, the Prime Minister has to be a real estate agent, so I’m learning and brushing up my skills
SINGAPORE: Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Lawrence Wong tackled Singapore’s property prices in a speech earlier this week, saying, perhaps only partially in jest, that “in Singapore, the ...
Singapore girl, 14, asked to send nudes to repay scam ‘debt’ up to $11,000
Scammers posing as a job agent conned a 14-year-old girl of over $1,100, and even followed up with threats to her to send nudes to pay off her debts. Mandarin newspaper Shin Min Daily News reported ...
The Climate Conversations – S4E3: A Singapore scientist takes a 60-hour journey to Antarctica to see climate change up close
Losing his luggage and standing on an ice sheet in a t-shirt was not how Professor Benjamin Horton thought his trip to Antarctica would go. But he and PHD student Tan Fang Yi tell Julie Yoo why they ...