SINGAPORE – With a narrow window of opportunity in which to transform its economy, Singapore has to press ahead with planned investments in order to secure its next decade of growth, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat said on Friday (Feb 26). Doing so would enable the economy to provide jobs in […]
SINGAPORE – With a narrow window of opportunity in which to transform its economy, Singapore has to press ahead with planned investments in order to secure its next decade of growth, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat said on Friday (Feb 26). Doing so would enable the economy to provide jobs in […]
TOKYO — For a moment, it looked as if the most powerful people in Japan were three 20-something women. In a country where the young are taught to keep quiet and defer to their elders, the trio of women decided to speak out after the president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee made sexist remarks […]
SINGAPORE – What will improve the lives of workers are better wages and better prospects, rather than a bigger wage share of the country’s gross domestic product, said Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat on Friday (Feb 26). He was refuting Non-Constituency MP Hazel Poa’s comment that Singapore workers are worse-off due to lower wage […]
SINGAPORE (REUTERS) – The Singapore Exchange on Friday (Feb 26) issued a list of queries to developer Emerging Towns & Cities (ETC) over its project in Myanmar after a rights group critisised the company for doing business with the military. ETC is among companies being called out by activists over ties to the Myamar military, […]
TOKYO – Japan can play a key role in staving off a potential collision course between the two superpowers United States and China, experts told a geopolitical forum on Friday (Feb 26). Japan can set the agenda, as a close security ally of the US and a close neighbour of China’s, they said at the […]
TOKYO – Japan can play a key role in staving off a potential collision course between the two superpowers United States and China, experts told a geopolitical forum on Friday (Feb 26). Japan can set the agenda, as a close security ally of the US and a close neighbour of China’s, they said at the […]
Good evening! Catch up on some of the main headlines on Friday, Feb 26. Scope to further review Singapore’s wealth taxes, says DPM Heng However, imposing such levies will not replace the need to increase the GST, he said. READ MORE HERE Punggol wild boar caught after another attack on Friday This comes after two […]
Good evening! Catch up on some of the main headlines on Friday, Feb 26. Scope to further review Singapore’s wealth taxes, says DPM Heng However, imposing such levies will not replace the need to increase the GST, he said. READ MORE HERE Punggol wild boar caught after another attack on Friday This comes after two […]
SINGAPORE – There were 13 new coronavirus cases confirmed as at Friday noon (Feb 26), taking Singapore’s total to 59,913. They were all imported cases who had been placed on stay-home notice on arrival in Singapore, said the Ministry of Health (MOH). There were no community cases and no cases from migrant workers’ dormitories. More details […]