United Nations experts have condemned Singapore’s continued use of the death penalty for drug-related offences, saying at least 16 people have been executed in the country since the beginning of 2026 and
United Nations experts have condemned Singapore’s continued use of the death penalty for drug-related offences, saying at least 16 people have been executed in the country since the beginning of 2026 and
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Singapore is grappling with an accelerating wave of youth radicalisation, with authorities warning that the time it takes for young people to embrace extremist ideologies has halved over the past decade as
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Singapore’s annual number of births fell below 30,000 for the first time since independence in 1965, underscoring mounting demographic pressures as one of Asia’s fastest-ageing societies grapples with declining fertility, a shrinking
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Singapore’s Acting Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs Faishal Ibrahim has resigned from office and stepped down from the ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) following an investigation into his interactions with a woman, Prime
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On a vast artificial island off Malaysia’s Johor state, scale models of gleaming high-rise towers still dominate a showroom the size of a football field, even as much of the surrounding land
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Singapore’s government is moving ahead with plans to designate 38 Oxley Road — the former home of founding leader Lee Kuan Yew — as a national monument, reigniting a years-long dispute over
More Singapore has announced plans to preserve the home of its founding prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew, as a national monument, marking a significant turn in the long-running dispute among his children. Acting
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Two former bankers at Citigroup Inc. and Julius Baer Group Ltd. are set to plead guilty for their alleged roles in facilitating illicit fund transfers linked to Singapore’s largest money-laundering scandal, Bloomberg
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Singapore-based seafood biotechnology startup Umami Bioworks is preparing to open Japan’s first production facility for lab-grown seafood by 2027, investing roughly 1.5 billion yen ($9.9 million) in the project, Nikkei reported. The
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Singaporean prosecutors have successfully obtained an additional eight weeks to deepen their investigation into three men accused of fraud in connection with shipping servers containing Nvidia Corp. chips, which are suspected of
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Singapore’s ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) is fielding its most diverse slate of new candidates since independence in a bid to connect with a rapidly evolving electorate ahead of the general election
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Singapore has voiced growing alarm over the escalating trade tensions triggered by U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff hikes, warning that a global trade war could severely harm small, trade-dependent nations. In
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Singapore’s Leader of the Opposition, Pritam Singh, was found guilty on Monday by a district court of two counts of lying under oath to a parliamentary committee. The charges are linked to
More As reported by The Financial Times, Singapore’s central bank, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), has eased its monetary policy for the first time in four years, citing rising global trade tensions
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Singapore has announced that Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong will take over as the country’s next leader on May 15. Wong, 51, has garnered unanimous support from lawmakers within the People’s Action
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