Foreign Affairs Minister Vivian Balakrishnan, who is on an official visit in Beijing, said the experience of COVID-19 has “deepened the reservoir of goodwill and trust” between China and Singapore.Continue Reading
SINGAPORE: Singapore and India on Tuesday (Feb 21) launched a real-time link to facilitate cross-border fund transfers between bank accounts or e-wallets, using mobile phones. This is possible through a tie-up between Singapore’s PayNow facility and India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI). Customers of participating financial institutions can transfer funds using just their mobileContinue Reading
Blinded by love, the Singaporean woman bore the Nigerian love scammer’s child and laundered money for him.Continue Reading
Among those charged are the former manager of Tiong Bahru Football Club, Kaw Lai Fong, and the former chairman of Woodlands Wellington, Gary Tan Eng Chin.Continue Reading
SINGAPORE: Parliament will start debating the Budget 2023 statement on Wednesday (Feb 22). It is expected to go on for at least two days before Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Lawrence Wong delivers the round-up speech, clarifies queries from Members of Parliament and sums up the Budget. This willContinue Reading
The other, a 16-year-old student, was issued a restriction order under the Internal Security Act after joining Islamic State-themed servers on gaming platform Roblox.Continue Reading
Two employees who were laid off said they were happy with the severance package and support being offered by Google.Continue Reading
SINGAPORE: Three people were charged on Tuesday (Feb 21) over an alleged conspiracy to cheat six financial institutions of about S$16 million by making fraudulent loan applications. The trio – aged between 44 and 48 – were accused of making 18 such applications. Between March and August in 2018, ChoyContinue Reading
SINGAPORE: A man who first came to public attention for saying he was counsel for anti-masker Benjamin Glynn was sentenced to two weeks’ jail on Tuesday (Feb 21) for not wearing a mask properly on two occasions when it was legally required. Abdul Rashid Abdul Rahman, 58, had claimed trial toContinue Reading
An extract from an upcoming history of Singapore and Malaysia, published exclusively with the Globe, explores Singapore and British Malaya’s fall to Japanese forces during World War II and the Lion City’s grim and macabre experience as ‘Syonan-to’
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