Singapore President Tony Tan will visit New Zealand next week as the two countries mark 50 years of diplomatic ties, New Zealand Prime Minister John Key said Friday.
Singapore launches new coins featuring its national flower orchid
The panel of The Business Times Wine Challenge 2015 - CEOs' Choice, who include chief judge Lim Hwee Peng (front row, far left) and Les Amis wine director Timothy Goh (front row, far right).
Negotiations on the largest regional trade accord in history concluded last week. Pundits have since weighed in on which groups of nations stand to gain or lose from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), as the agreement is called.
China, Singapore hold annual cooperation meetings
A multinational effort to fight forest fires in Indonesia began on Sunday (Oct 11) as Singapore joined forces with other countries to help douse fires in South Sumatra.
An Indonesian minister said on Wednesday that government is considering possibilities to receive foreign assistance to help the efforts to stop the forest fire in Sumatra and Kalimantan as the scale and level of difficulties in dealing with the problem requires more capable instruments.
Singapore's new cabinet was sworn into office late Thursday at the Istana, after Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced the new cabinet on Monday.
Singaporeans across the city state went to their designated polling stations on Friday to vote in a general election.
Singapore's Chinatown will officially switch on 2,300 decorative lanterns in the heritage district to celebrate Mid-autumn Festival as well as the country's golden jubilee on Sept. 13, said the organizer at media preview on Wednesday.
Night Festival lights up the summer sky of Singapore
Singapore celebrated its Golden Jubilee on Sunday with the biggest-ever National Day Parade (NDP), which commemorated the city state's independence.
Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited (OCBC Bank) said on Friday that it recorded a net profit of 1.05 billion Singapore dollars (772 million U.S. dollars) for the second quarter of 2015, an increase of 14 percent from a year ago.
Singapore's budget carrier Tigerair reported an operating profit of 600,000 Singapore dollars (440,040 U.S. dollars) in the first quarter of its 2016 financial year, reversing a loss of 16.4 million Singapore dollars (12.03 million U.S. dollars) in the previous quarter, the airline has said.
The amendment to make Singapore- based investment company Temasek Holdings as a bigger contributor to the government's income was passed, reported Channel NewsAsia on Monday.
Singapore's manufacturing economy continued to shrink in the fifth straight month. The Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) read 49.4 points in April, which declined 0. 2 points over the previous month.
The Kuala Lumpur- Singapore high-speed rail (HSR) project has aroused interest of potential bidders, and Chinese companies are welcome to participate in the tender, said a senior Malaysian official.
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