Singapore

Singapore asks US to help probe scientist Shane Todd's 'suicide'

4 Mar 2013

Police confirmed they had asked the FBI to examine evidence from the family of Shane Todd, an electronics engineer found hanged in the city-state in June last year.

Boat cruises for pampered Singapore dogs

2 Mar 2013

The guests lean over the side of the boat to catch the morning breeze as their catamaran eases off from a jetty in Singapore. A typical cruise - except for the fact the passengers are dogs.

Hong Kong unlikely to follow Singapore in raising taxes for luxury homeowners

27 Feb 2013

Hong Kong is unlikely to follow Singapore's example by raising taxes for owners of the most expensive luxury homes, property and tax experts say. The city-state's initiative is seen as being aimed...

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Singapore sentences four Chinese strikers to jail

25 Feb 2013

A Singapore court sentenced four Chinese immigrant bus drivers on Monday to up to seven weeks in prison for instigating the city-state’s first labour strike in 26 years.

Singapore's livelier politics a sign of the times

25 Feb 2013

The recent protest by an estimated 4,000 Singaporeans, against government plans to increase the city state's population largely through immigration, may not have been large by Hong Kong standards...

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Interpol chief urges Singapore to arrest match-fixing suspect Dan Tan

The International police agency's secretary general, Ronald Noble, said in the Malaysian capital that Singapore needed to move on Tan Seet Eng, also known as Dan Tan, who has emerged as a central...

2020 target for Singapore-Kuala Lumpur high-speed rail link

A high-speed rail link between Singapore and the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur may be completed by 2020, leaders of the two countries said yesterday.

Singapore home sales rise 43pc in wake of cooling action

Singapore home prices reached a record high in the fourth quarter amid low interest rates, raising concerns of a housing bubble and prompting the government to introduce its seventh round of...

SINGAPORE

Huawei denies work linked to US death in Singapore

Chinese telecommunications company Huawei said on Monday that it had not worked with an institute in Singapore on any projects in the specialist field of an American engineer who died mysteriously...

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SINGAPORE: ANALYSIS

Drum beat of discontent in Singapore draws near

Singapore's biggest protest in decades shows that the ruling party for over half a century is facing a more vocal electorate and must change or watch its popularity slide further, analysts say.

Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew released from hospital after heart problem

Lee, 89, was sent to the Singapore General Hospital after the suspected transient ischemic attack, a condition with stroke-like symptoms that clear within a day, according to the Prime Minister's...