SINGAPORE – The response to Singapore’s Covid-19 vaccination effort has been encouraging but could be better, President Halimah Yacob said as she urged all Singaporeans to get vaccinated against the […]
SINGAPORE (REUTERS) – Government-owned Jurong Port is set to take over the shares in a major oil storage terminal held by the Lim family behind collapsed oil trader Hin Leong, […]
SINGAPORE – DBS Group Holdings posted a 33 per cent plunge in fourth-quarter earnings as its net interest margin fell and it set aside higher allowances for potential bad loans. South-east […]
NEW YORK (REUTERS) – Bitcoin powered to a record high on Tuesday (Feb 9), approaching the US$50,000 (S$66,300) mark, basking in the afterglow of Elon Musk-led Tesla’s investment in the […]
NEW YORK (AFP) – The Nasdaq edged to a fresh record again on Tuesday (Feb 9), extending a bull run for markets buoyed by rising hopes for fiscal stimulus and […]
SINGAPORE – Incoming Temasek chief executive Dilhan Pillay Sandrasegara said the state investor’s focus and biggest consideration is climate change. “It’s impacting businesses in every sector, in every part of […]
SINGAPORE, Feb 9, 2021 – (ACN Newswire) – The POWER WEEK Organising Committee is proud to announce the updated speaker lineup for POWER WEEK ASIA Virtual Conference, which is set to commence on 15 […]
SINGAPORE – After hearing from 16,900 Singaporeans across all ages and races, the two ministers guiding a mass public engagement exercise have once again repeated their call for people to […]
SINGAPORE – Wet markets around Singapore are still seeing huge crowds three days before the start of Chinese New Year. The Straits Times was at the wet markets in Kovan, […]
SINGAPORE – With its decorations, fairy lights and flowers, the fourth-floor corridor at Block 117 Tampines Street 11 resembles a brightly lit village. But 36-year-old resident Abdullah Abdul Rahman is really hoping […]
SINGAPORE – An engineer with a doctorate was on Tuesday (Feb 9) sentenced to 18 days’ jail for molesting a 39-year-old woman on an MRT train. Shen Ruifu, who holds […]
SINGAPORE – Former United States Secretary of State George Shultz, who died last Saturday (Feb 6) aged 100, belonged to a generation of great American statesmen and played a major […]
SINGAPORE (THE BUSINESS TIMES) – Razer co-founder and director Lim Kaling is selling his one third stake in a joint venture that owns RMH Singapore Pte Ltd, a Singapore-based tobacco […]
NEW YORK (REUTERS) – Bitcoin took another large stride towards mainstream acceptance on Monday (Feb 8) after Elon Musk’s Tesla revealed it had bought US$1.5 billion (S$2 billion) of the […]
NEW YORK (REUTERS) – Wall Street reached all-time closing highs on Monday (Feb 8) as investor optimism was stoked by prospects of a speedier economic recovery from the global health […]
Singapore companies need to look beyond price competitiveness and develop niche products so they will not be easily displaced in the global supply chain, said Minister for Trade and Industry […]
Micro and small enterprises prioritise protecting employees’ livelihoods but many need more support, according to a survey by DBS Bank. So it has rolled out new measures to help these […]
SINGAPORE – Twenty-two people were charged with breaching stay-home notice (SHN) requirements last year, said the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) on Monday (Feb 8). They included a 34-year-old Singaporean […]
SINGAPORE – The Covid-19 pandemic hit Singapore households hard last year, with overall median household income from work falling by 2.5 per cent in nominal terms from $9,425 to $9,189. […]
SINGAPORE – Over 42 million travellers were cleared for entry and departure at Singapore’s checkpoints last year, a plunge of more than 80 per cent from the year before, while the low-value […]
