SINGAPORE – Building adequate buffers for future pandemics, right-sizing resources, and ensuring good outcomes are essential to making good investments in, and financing, public healthcare, said Finance Minister Lawrence Wong. […]
SINGAPORE – The cross-cutting nature of mental health issues means that a whole-of-nation effort is needed to help people with mental health conditions, President Halimah Yacob said on Thursday (Oct […]
SINGAPORE – Work arrangements remain in a state of flux as the pandemic wears on and authorities continue to uncover safety breaches at workplaces but companies can manage fatigue by […]
NEW YORK (AFP) – Wall Street stocks finished modestly higher on Wednesday (Oct 6) after trading in the red most of the session as congressional Republicans offered a compromise in […]
SINGAPORE (THE BUSINESS TIMES) – Serial System said on Tuesday (Oct 5) that its executive chairman and director, Derek Goh Bak Heng, has relinquished his directorship in the company for […]
NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) – Another Chinese developer fell into crisis on Monday (Oct 4) after failing to repay a maturing bond, adding to the strains of the nation’s heavily leveraged […]
SINGAPORE – An announcement will be made later this week on whether home-based-learning (HBL) will be extended for primary schools, said Education Minister Chan Chun Sing. All Primary 1 to […]
SINGAPORE – UOB has earned credit for being a world-best in lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The Singapore bank said on Monday (Oct 4) that it has been named […]
SINGAPORE – A man allegedly turned up at three Housing Board flats over two days, but these were not friendly visits. Muhammad Nafis Mohd Nazri, who is said to have acted […]
SYDNEY (BLOOMBERG) – The male-dominated cryptocurrency industry could provide more employment opportunities for women, according to the head of Australia’s largest digital-asset exchange. Blockchain needs greater female participation and offers […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – Resolving “tension” between high inflation and still-elevated unemployment is the most urgent issue facing the Federal Reserve right now, its chairman Jerome Powell said on Wednesday (Sept […]
NEW YORK (AFP, BLOOMBERG) – United Airlines will dismiss nearly 600 employees who refused to comply with a requirement to be vaccinated for Covid-19, company officials said on Tuesday (Sept […]
SINGAPORE – Moments after an explosion shook a Tuas building and blew out its window panels, the eight workers who were in the workshop at the time ran to a […]
SINGAPORE – Many firms have set for themselves the target of bringing their emissions of planet-warming gases down to net-zero at a certain point in time, but few actually have […]
DETROIT (REUTERS) – Ford Motor and its South Korean battery partner SK Innovation will invest US$11.4 billion (S$15.4 billion) to build an electric F-150 assembly plant, and three battery plants […]
KUALA LUMPUR (REUTERS) – Malaysia’s AirAsia X on Monday (Sept 27) posted a record quarterly loss of RM24.6 billion (S$7.95 billion), eight times more than a year ago, as a […]
SINGAPORE – Closure is on the horizon for Good Old Taste, a cafe at The Arcade shopping mall in Raffles Place, as it copes with the latest round of Covid-19 […]
WASHINGTON – Singapore’s first priority is to control the Covid-19 pandemic at home and ensure healthcare facilities are not overwhelmed, Minister for Foreign Affairs Vivian Balakrishnan said. The issue of relaxation […]
SINGAPORE – A 37-year-old man allegedly involved in a robbery at a hostel in Chinatown was charged in court on Saturday (Sept 25). Goh Soon Kim, a Singaporean, is accused […]
SINGAPORE – One has always dreamed of being a fighter pilot, while the other’s interest in the air force was sparked by the fighter jets that fly on National Day. […]
