Even as the unvaccinated nation faces a collapse of its health system, Pyongyang has rebuffed aid offers from South Korea and the UN.

Sun Haiyan, a longtime member of the International Liaison Department, is China’s 12th ambassador to Singapore.

While the landmark decision is at risk of being rolled back in the US, no such debates have roiled Asia, although a stigma persists in some places.

Asean leaders will review the Asean-US Strategic Partnership, while Biden is expected to pitch his Indo-Pacific Economic Framework during the summit.

Co-founders of the two-year-old start-up Amili have developed five probiotics supplements based on their studies of what Asian guts lack.

Archbishop William Goh apologises on behalf of the Church after a ‘prominent’ man in Singapore’s Catholic community pleads guilty to two charges and is jailed for five years.

The city state’s mosques are once again bustling with worshippers as Eid al-Fitr celebrations return at full scale, after last month’s lifting of capacity limits and social-distancing curbs.

As the city state relaxes its pandemic rules, there has been a flurry of reopening in the F&B sector and operators are on a hiring drive, creating stiff competition for talent.

Nagaenthran K. Dharmalingam had been in prison since 2009 for bringing 42 grams of heroin into Singapore. He was hanged on April 27 after his mother’s last-ditch legal challenge was dismissed.

All residents can now gather in large groups and stop using the TraceTogether app at most places in the city state, which also axed pre-departure Covid tests.

NZ and Singapore both condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, are ‘staunch supporters’ of international rule of law, PM Ardern said on her first trip since the pandemic hit.

From next year, the city state will allow single women aged 21 to 35 to freeze their eggs. But fertility is a complex matter, as South Korea, Malaysia and Thailand’s experience shows.

PM Lee Hsien Loong’s guitar-shredding successor grew up in a public housing flat and went to non-elite schools – and is expected to favour ‘not rocking the boat’ when he takes over the top job.

Singapore’s ruling PAP said an ‘overwhelming majority’ of the party’s younger ministers endorsed Lawrence Wong as the leader of the ‘4G’ group.

Even if the war had not happened, Singapore would still have had to raise energy prices due to its clean energy transition, finance minister says.

A small but vocal group of Singaporeans oppose the government’s criticism of Russia and sympathise with China’s ‘above-the-fray’ stance. Analysts explain the broader implications of this development.

From masks off outdoors to no on-arrival testing for vaccinated travellers, Singapore from next week will ease or ditch a slew of pandemic-era curbs.

From next Tuesday, most restrictions for travellers will be lifted and people will no longer be required to wear mask outdoors as Singapore moves to a new normal ‘almost like before Covid-19’, PM Lee Hsien Loong said.

‘I think Asean always tends to view itself as more of the taker rather than the giver.’

A planned global minimum corporate tax of 15 per cent is a headache for the two Asian financial hubs, whose attraction owes much to their relatively low rates.

Some 1,790 foreigners arrived in Singapore from Hong Kong in February – a far cry from pre-pandemic days – but the first time the figure crossed four digits since April 2020.

‘Children with learning difficulties are on the cliff – they have no friends, no services, no enrichment’.

Some find themselves stuck as airspace closes and train services are cancelled. Others have chosen to stay put, determined to ‘continue with our daily lives’.

With most Covid-19 patients facing mild symptoms and recovering at home from the less-threatening Omicron strain, attitudes towards the virus in the highly-vaccinated nation have become more relaxed.

Delivering 2022 budget, Finance Minister Lawrence Wong announces 2 percentage point GST raise alongside increases to personal income, property and vehicle taxes.

The city state has a special weapon in its fight against the coronavirus: cheap and readily available rapid antigen tests that mean Covid sufferers can isolate at home.

Travellers no longer need to do a costly PCR test, just an antigen rapid test. Singapore is looking to fully reopen after Omicron subsides; caseload of 20,000 a day is ‘within expectations’, minister says.

Workers’ Party leader Pritam Singh vows to exonerate himself after parliamentary committee says he perjured himself during a probe into lying ex-MP Raeesah Khan.

The former Workers’ Party MP last year accused police of mishandling a sex assault case during a debate on gender equality, which she later said was untrue