Singapore’s success was built on a compact city-state, a strategic port, concentrated population, state-controlled housing, tightly coordinated institutions and deliberate social engineering. Sri Lanka, with its rural economy, agricultural regions, established ethnic
Singapore has raised more than S$1.1 million (US$862,000) from the first auction of luxury goods seized in the country’s S$3 billion (US$2.35 billion) money laundering case, with intense competition for handbags and jewellery producing prices far above initial estimates. The
When Jordan Seow joined OpenAI in June 2025, he became the company’s first locally hired forward-deployed engineer in Asia-Pacific. At the time, the company’s
Singapore is to introduce a one-off increase in the pay of government ministers, including Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, despite continuing domestic disapproval over the
Singapore’s success was built on a compact city-state, a strategic port, concentrated population, state-controlled housing, tightly coordinated institutions and deliberate social engineering. Sri Lanka, with its rural economy, agricultural regions, established ethnic
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Singapore has raised more than S$1.1 million (US$862,000) from the first auction of luxury goods seized in the country’s S$3 billion (US$2.35 billion) money laundering case, with intense competition for handbags and
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When Jordan Seow joined OpenAI in June 2025, he became the company’s first locally hired forward-deployed engineer in Asia-Pacific. At the time, the company’s Singapore office had fewer than 20 employees. The
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Singapore is to introduce a one-off increase in the pay of government ministers, including Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, despite continuing domestic disapproval over the high salaries received by the country’s political leaders.
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Singapore must never allow prejudice against any community to become accepted or normalised, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said as he addressed a wave of anti-Indian comments that emerged online following the devastating
More Singapore’s efforts to strengthen its fintech talent pipeline are confronting a persistent problem: a shortage of experienced professionals with expertise across both technology and finance, a gap that is becoming more pressing
More Singapore is offering families more than €47,000 for each child under the age of 18 as part of a new package announced by Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, in one of the city-state’s
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Singapore has launched its latest response to Hong Kong’s aggressive efforts to attract hedge fund managers and other financial professionals, proposing tax exemptions on certain investment profits as the two Asian financial
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Singapore Airlines has booked operating losses of about S$1bn ($780mn) on its investment in Air India less than two years after taking a 25 per cent stake in the Indian carrier, raising
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Singapore’s Far East Organization has entered a new chapter in its six-decade history as leadership passes to the third generation of the Ng family, reflecting a broader succession trend among Singapore’s largest
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A growing number of wealthy Taiwanese are relocating their offshore assets to Singapore as geopolitical tensions across the Taiwan Strait intensify, according to interviews with high-net-worth individuals and advisers cited in the
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Singapore authorities have seized a luxury mansion valued at about SGD 55 million (US$42 million) and charged multiple individuals and companies with money laundering and false representation offences as part of an
More Singapore’s newest university graduates are entering an increasingly difficult job market, with some turning to government-funded traineeships that pay less than half the median starting salary for degree holders as artificial intelligence
More Singapore’s private wealth community is reassessing exposure to software investments as generative artificial intelligence reshapes the technology landscape, prompting family offices and institutional allocators to shift capital toward more defensible data-driven businesses
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Singapore is positioning itself to capture the next wave of growth from China’s expanding economy, with Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong declaring that Chinese investment and technological transformation are opening new opportunities
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