Category: Singapore
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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KSA, Singapore to boost cooperation
Saudi-Singaporean Business Council will meet in Riyadh today. Singaporean delegation will be led by minister of Commerce and Industry Lee Yee Sheen and the Saudi team will be [...]
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Singapore-based banks under pressure to hire more locals
Banks and other firms in Singapore are under pressure to hire more locals and give them opportunities to advance as the government of the wealthy Asian financial centre tries [...]
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Woman in Peter Lim case feared antagonising him
Former Nimrod Engineering general manager Angie Pang Chor Mui had oral sex with former Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) chief Peter Lim Sin Pang not just because she [...]
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KSA, Singapore to boost cooperation
Saudi-Singaporean Business Council will meet in Riyadh today. Singaporean delegation will be led by minister of Commerce and Industry Lee Yee Sheen and the Saudi team will be [...]
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Singapore-based banks under pressure to hire more locals
Banks and other firms in Singapore are under pressure to hire more locals and give them opportunities to advance as the government of the wealthy Asian financial centre tries [...]
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Singapore disappointed by Senators’ bid to block funds
Singapore said it’s disappointed by a plan by two US senators to block funding to a research institute until the Federal Bureau of Investigation gets full access in the [...]
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Singapore banks to drop Malaysia FX reference rates
Banks in Singapore will likely abandon their reference rate for the Malaysian ringgit, a person with knowledge of the matter told Reuters, handing a victory to [...]
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Singapore govt denies using spy software
Singapore’s government has denied using spy software after being identified among a list of 25 countries that were found by two researchers to be employing it, in a [...]
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Singapore’s February Home Sales Decline to 14-Month Low on Curbs
Singapore home prices reached a record in the fourth quarter amid low interest rates, raising concerns of a housing bubble and prompting the government to widen a four-year [...]
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Singapore expected to order F-35 fighter jets soon – sources
Singapore is in the “final stages of evaluating” the F-35 to upgrade its air force, a process US sources say should turn quickly into orders for several dozen of [...]
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