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 Airlines transported 2.1 million passengers last month, up 20.3 percent year-on-year, according to the latest operating statistics. The low-cost airline Scoot within the same group recorded 1.06 million passengers in April,
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Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced on Monday he will step down on May 15 after nearly 20 years of heading the government of the economically prosperous country as part of
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