Singapore has set up an inter-ministerial committee to coordinate the nation's effort to deal with the impact of the haze resulting from forest fires in neighboring Indonesia, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Thursday.
The transboundary haze as a result of bush burning in Indonesia pushed Singapore's three-hour pollutant standards index (PSI) to a record high of 290 on Wednesday evening.
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel will travel to Singapore this week to attend the Shangri-La Dialogue for the first time as Pentagon chief, senior defense officials announced Tuesday.
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel will travel to Singapore this week to attend the Shangri-La Dialogue for the first time as Pentagon chief, senior defense officials announced Tuesday.
Banking giant Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) kicked off its yuan clearing services in Singapore on Monday, marking a milestone in Singapore' s development as an offshore yuan hub.
Singapore has an average life expectancy at birth of 82, making it a joint fourth with Italy on a latest World Health Organization ranking, local daily Straits Times reported on Monday.
Developers in Singapore sold 2, 793 new units of private homes, excluding executive condominiums, in March, according to statistics released by the Urban Redevelopment Authority on Monday. The number is more than four times of that in February.
Singapore is preparing for a bid for the Singapore Botanic Gardens to be listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site, Acting Minister for Culture, Community and Youth Lawrence Wong said on Monday.
Singapore's Health Ministry is looking at the possibility of banning point-of-sale display of tobacco products in stores, Health Minister Gan Kim Yong said on Tuesday.
With the announcement early this week of the 2013 Singapore budget, all research groups here have agreed that the key losers will be property investors and developers, particularly those owning high-end residential units with unsold inventory.
Singapore Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam delivered his budget speech in the parliament on Monday, saying that the government, in a bid to pursue quality growth, will further tighten foreign worker policies while supporting the drive to boost productivity.
Singapore and Malaysia agreed to build a high-speed rail link between Singapore and Kuala Lumpur by 2020, the prime ministers of the two countries announced on Tuesday
Thai billionaire Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi was one more step closer to taking over Singapore-listed conglomerate Fraser and Neave (F&N) on Monday, as his rival bidder dropped out of a rare auction.
Singapore government released on Monday its new measures to promote marriage and parenthood here, including providing affordable and available public housing, assisting reproduction, as well as incentives of healthcare and paternity leave.
The ministry will stop the current practice of listing the top students for the primary school leaving examination (PLSE), the O- Level and the N-Level examinations, Channel NewsAsia quoted the ministry as saying.
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