After serving only a handful of customers in five hours on a recent weekday, Sam Goh said he was worried the sportswear shop he manages, LIV ACTIV, will eventually join other brands in leaving Singapore's Orchard Road shopping boulevard.
Singapore has raised concerns over transboundary air pollution at a United Nations ( UN ) meeting involving some 120 environment ministers in Africa last week, the Ministry for the Environment and Water Resources ( MEWR ) have announced.
Four Bangladeshi workers held on suspicion of planning attacks linked to the Islamic State group in their own country were convicted of financing terrorism by a court in Singapore on Tuesday.
India is looking to boost its Act East Policy even as southeast Asia struggles to cope with festering maritime disputes in the region. While defence minister Manohar Parrikar will look to expound on how India views the regional security situation at the Shangri La Dialogue later this week, PM Narendra Modi is also hoping to host his Singapore counterpart Lee Hsien Loong in September this year.
More than 2,000 cartons of duty-unpaid cigarettes were seized in Singapore, said Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) in a press release on Tuesday.
Despite constant concerns that Hong Kong is losing its edge to mainland and regional rivals, the city has reclaimed the title of the world’s most competitive economy, according to the IMD World Competitiveness Centre.
Indonesia says it will stop sending new live-in maids abroad from as early as next year. Its authorities want domestic workers to live separately from their employers in dormitories, work regular hours, and get public holidays and days off.
The third China-Singapore Forum on Social Governance was held in Singapore on Tuesday.
Experts and representatives from government agencies as well as academics from Singapore and Indonesia came together to share best practices and enhance bilateral cooperation on counter terrorism, according to a press release by Singapore's Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Tuesday.
Singapore's Minister for Trade and Industry (Industry) S Iswaran on Tuesday launched Singapore Center for 3D Printing, a research body of Nanyang Technological University (NTU) which will conduct research and develop innovations for manufacturing technologies and precision engineering.
Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong begins a four-day working visit to the Russian Federation on Tuesday (May 17).
K Muralidharan Pillai, the candidate for Singapore's ruling party People's Action Party (PAP), won the by-election for Bukit Batok Single Member Constituency (SMC) with 61.2 percent of the votes, according to results of the polls by Elections Department of Singapore (ELD).
Indonesia has not given Singapore a list of its fugitives as previously reported, said the foreign ministries of the two countries.
Indonesia has given Singapore a list of fugitives, part of back-channel efforts to nab those who had fled the country after being convicted of crimes.
China Construction Bank Corporation (CCB) and International Enterprise (IE) Singapore signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Monday, in which CCB will provide 30 billion Singapore dollars (22.2 billion U.S. dollars) of financing services to support enterprises on infrastructure projects under the Belt and Road Initiative.
Singapore Shipping Association (SSA) for the first time showcased the offshore marine sector by inviting the public to visit two state-of-the-art Offshore Support Vessels (OSV) from Thursday to Saturday in conjunction with Singapore Maritime Week.
Thailand has put two Turkish nationals on its security watchlist after an alert from Singapore, it was reported.
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