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
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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