SINGAPORE – The director of a freight forwarding company in Singapore, who evaded more than $20,000 in goods and services tax (GST), has been fined $105,000. Tang Yong Hoe, 43, […]
HONG KONG (BLOOMBERG) – As China Evergrande Group edges closer to a massive restructuring, Beijing has stepped up efforts to limit the fallout, signaling it’s willing to prop up healthy […]
Transformational trends converging in Asia – some accelerated by the pandemic – could potentially unleash the region’s next wave of growth opportunities. “Opportunities are where people are. If we take […]
SINGAPORE – My son, who will turn 12 in January, caught Covid-19 on Sept 22. It started with a cough, then a fever and concluded with a positive polymerase chain […]
SINGAPORE – Academics presenting research overseas, writing for international journals and receiving international funding will not fall afoul of the proposed law to counter foreign interference, the Ministry of Home […]
SINGAPORE – It is not the Government’s intent to prevent all forms of foreign influence, only those which attempt at manipulation. Neither does Singapore intend to use the powers under […]
SINGAPORE – The proposed law to counter foreign interference already contains a requirement for orders issued under it to be proportionate, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said on Sunday […]
(NYTIMES) – A year and a half of pandemic living has revealed – or reminded us of – some persistent patterns around money, gender, marriage and families. And they aren’t […]
SINGAPORE – A teenager was on probation for fighting in a public place when he re-offended by posing as female sex workers online to cheat two men of $4,000 in […]
SINGAPORE – Even after successfully leading a five-year-long, Unesco-award-winning restoration of Yueh Hai Ching Temple, conservator Yeo Kang Shua felt like that his work on the temple in Raffles Place […]
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 […]
SINGAPORE – A man who threatened to kill his estranged wife after abducting and dousing her with petrol was on Wednesday (Sept 29) sentenced to two years, two months and […]
SINGAPORE – A housewife who abused her two daughters, aged six and 10, breaking the older child’s front teeth, was on Wednesday (Sept 29) sentenced to three years’ jail. The […]
HONG KONG – Xu Jiayin – or Hui Ka Yan in Cantonese – was China’s richest man, a symbol of the country’s economic rise who helped transform poverty-stricken villages into […]
TOKYO, Sep 28, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Fujitsu Limited and KDDI Corporation today announced an agreement to collaborate on creating new services that enrich the customer experience […]
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 […]
DONGGUAN (NYTIMES, BLOOMBERG) – China’s energy crisis is shaping up as the latest shock to global supply chains as factories in the world’s biggest exporter are forced to conserve energy […]
NEW YORK (REUTERS) – The S&P 500 and Nasdaq indexes ended lower on Monday (Sept 27) with investors pivoting to value as tech shares, hurt by rising Treasury yields, weighed […]
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 […]
