SINGAPORE – More safety features will be installed at Tanjong Pagar Road by the end of the year, said the Land Transport Authority (LTA) on Wednesday (Sept 8). This follows […]
SINGAPORE – Singapore’s laws have enabled the authorities to act quickly on cases of suspected radicalisation and prevent terrorist attacks like the recent stabbing in New Zealand, said Law and […]
HONG KONG (BLOOMBERG) – Tencent Holdings and Netease shed more than US$60 billion (S$80.6 billion) of value as investor fears grow that Chinese regulators are preparing to tighten their grip […]
SINGAPORE – For the past year and a half, shopkeepers in Little India have been hit hard by a drastic fall in income as migrant workers who would throng the […]
NEW YORK (AFP) – Wall Street stocks ended lower again on Thursday (Sept 9) as markets weighed better employment data against uncertainty over United States monetary policy and US President […]
SINGAPORE – A Singaporean businessman gave a Malaysian man cash totalling over $1,000 to facilitate the latter’s journey to Syria to become a fighter for the Islamic State in Iraq […]
KUALA LUMPUR (BLOOMBERG) – The Malaysian semiconductor firm Unisem will shut some plants for seven days after three employees died recently from Covid-19, dealing a fresh blow to the chip […]
SINGAPORE – Discrimination and racism in Singapore were the main concerns that Indian community leaders raised during a dialogue session on Tuesday night (Sept 7) to discuss views on Prime […]
SINGAPORE – The Online Citizen (TOC) has repeatedly failed to declare all its funding sources for last year despite reminders and extensions, and it has been asked to explain its […]
SINGAPORE – The managing agent of Hillview Heights condominium has been flagged by the Security Association Singapore for discrimination against non-Mandarin speakers and older workers in its tender for security […]
SAN SALVADOR(REUTERS, BLOOMBERG) -El Salvador holds 400 Bitcoins, President Nayib Bukele said on Monday (Sept 6), one day before the country formally adopts it as legal tender alongside the United […]
SINGAPORE – The heavily industrialised West Coast of Singapore will by 2030 get an infusion of greenery that will include almost 40 new nature-based amenities, such as community gardening plots […]
SINGAPORE – Businesses at Bugis Junction are reeling from the drastic drop in footfall since a cluster of Covid-19 cases emerged at the mall on Aug 24. Infections there ballooned […]
SINGAPORE (BLOOMBERG) – OCBC Bank is boosting its wealth management and corporate banking staff for Greater China to capture regional business flow from the world’s second-largest economy. South-east Asia’s second-largest […]
NEW YORK (AFP) – Major US equity indices again finished at records on Thursday (Sept 2) following better weekly jobless claim data ahead of the closely-watched August employment report. The […]
SINGAPORE – Staff of several stores and eateries returned to Changi Airport’s Terminal 1 and Terminal 3 for the first time in more than three months on Wednesday (Sept 1). […]
SINGAPORE – When undergraduate Roslina Toh read about Malaysians working in Singapore who were stranded after the Malaysian border was closed to stem the spread of Covid-19 in March last […]
SINGAPORE (REUTERS) – South-east Asian used-car marketplace Carsome Group said it has raised US$170 million (S$228.6 million) in a funding round from investors including Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek, cementing its position […]
SINGAPORE – The Progress Singapore Party (PSP) has filed a private member’s motion in Parliament on issues about jobs and foreign workforce policy, the party’s Non-Constituency MP Leong Mun Wai […]
MAHARASHTRA (BLOOMBERG) – Ride-hailing startup Ola has selected banks including Citigroup Inc. and Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. to manage its Mumbai initial public offering that could raise about US$1 billion, […]
