Category: Singapore
She tried to seduce me first, says Peter Lim
She tried to seduce me first, former civil defence chief Peter Lim Sin Pang claimed in his ongoing corruption trial on Monday. On his first day on the stand, Lim (left) told [...]
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Obama to welcome Singapore PM next week
US President Barack Obama will welcome Singapore prime minister Lee Hsien Loong to the White House on Tuesday, as he seeks to bolster his diplomatic ‘pivot’ to [...]
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Billionaire Modi says Singapore’s sex drive hinges on housing
Billionaire Bhupendra Kumar Modi, who became a Singapore citizen last year, is urging his adopted nation to end a ban on young singles owning state-built homes because it [...]
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Singapore inflation accelerates in February
Singapore’s inflation hit an eight-month high in February, buttressing expectations that the central bank will maintain a tightening bias in its monetary policy when it [...]
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Singapore denies being haven for tax cheats
Singapore yesterday strongly rejected a whistleblower’s allegation that its banks facilitate massive tax evasion by a powerful family in neighbouring Malaysia’s [...]
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High end car showroom opens in Singapore
Singapore’s auto industry may be taking a hit from the latest curbs on car loans. But car distributor Eurokars has shook off fears of a downturn in the industry, [...]
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Belarus president in Singapore for state visit
Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko is in Singapore for a state visit. This is the first visit by a head of state of Belarus to Singapore, which President Tony Tan Keng [...]
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Singapore middle-distillate inventories fall to five-month low
Middle distillate inventories in Singapore, Asia’s largest oil-trading and storage centre, fell 7.9 percent to the lowest level in more than five months, according to a [...]
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Singapore sees boom in arbitration
For years, Singapore and Hong Kong have jostled to become Asia’s biggest financial centre. But now, competition is heating up in another area – international [...]
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Singapore denies facilitating tax evasion
The government of Singapore has rubbished claims that the country facilitates tax evasion in Malaysia by withholding information requested by the Malaysian government. The [...]
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Chinese workers jailed for high-rise demo in Singapore
A Singapore court on Thursday sentenced two Chinese workers to four weeks in jail each for staging a high-rise protest atop construction cranes in December, local media [...]
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Singapore implicated in ‘sting’ video exposing alleged land graft in Malaysia
Both the Ministry of Finance and Monetary Authority of Singapore have denied the claims made in the video in a media statement. “Contrary to what was claimed in the video, [...]
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Swiss, Singapore help sought in French fraud probe
French authorities have appointed two of the country’s top examining magistrates to oversee an international probe into suspected tax fraud that has forced the [...]
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Singapore, India armies conduct bilateral armour exercise
The Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) and the Indian Army (IA) are conducting Exercise Bold Kurukshetra, the ninth bilateral armour exercise between the two countries. More than [...]
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NSP calls for lower GST, higher taxes for wealthy
Lower the Government Service Tax (GST) to 5.5 per cent and increase taxes on the wealthy earning above S$500,000. Those are among the National Solidarity Party’s key [...]
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