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Singapore said its economy would expand as little as 3 percent in 2010, well below the high growth rates of past years because of a sluggish recovery in the U.S. and other developed countries.
The global police organization Interpol began issuing special passports Tuesday to its senior investigators, aimed at allowing them to enter any of the group's 188 member countries without visas.
Singapore state investment company GIC said Tuesday its investments fell more than 20 percent in the 12 months ending March, but have recovered more than half that loss as global stocks surged in recent months.
McLaren's Lewis Hamilton won the Singapore Grand Prix on Sunday, and Brawn GP driver Jenson Button extended his Formula One championship lead by one point.
McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton criticized the Singapore Grand Prix circuit on Saturday, calling it unsafe in parts for this weekend's Formula One race.
Jenson Button is debating how to approach the remaining races of the Formula One season as he attempts to hang on to his lead in the drivers' championship.
A Singapore sovereign wealth fund cut its stake in Citigroup Inc. to below 5 percent from 9 percent on Tuesday, reducing its ownership to the level planned before a recent debt exchange.
A Singapore sovereign wealth fund has cut its stake in Citigroup Inc. from 9 percent to below 5 percent, realizing a $1.6 billion profit as it reduced its holding to the level planned before a recent exchange of preferred stock.
A Singapore newspaper says eight teen fans of the video game Slayers planned to commit suicide together last month, but most backed out after watching two of them jump to their deaths.
Singapore Telecommunications Ltd., the largest telephone company in Southeast Asia, said its profit rose 7.7 percent in the April-June period as a growing subscriber base aided income.
Cash strapped casino operator Las Vegas Sands Corp. is considering an initial public offering of its Macau assets and the sale of peripheral businesses to raise $3.5 billion to $4.0 billion, chairman Sheldon Adelson said Wednesday.
Singapore investors will likely wait until after Myanmar's elections next year before pouring any more money into the country, former Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said Friday, according to television station Channel News Asia.
This speck on the map leapt from poverty to First World riches in a generation. Now its halcyon years of breakneck growth may be over.
Singapore's economy shrank less in the first quarter than first estimated, suggesting the island's hard-hit manufacturing and finance sectors improved in March.
The gay community in tightly controlled Singapore held its first-ever rally Saturday, taking advantage of looser laws on public gatherings to call for equality.
Singapore state investment company Temasek sold its stake in Bank of America Corp., a move that likely added to large losses last year from its investments in U.S. and European banks.
Richard D. Stanley, chief executive of Singapore's DBS Group Holdings Ltd., has died from complications of leukemia. He was 48.
A Singapore judge ruled a senior Wall Street Journal editor was in contempt of court Thursday for two editorials and a letter to the editor published last year about the city-state's judiciary, the attorney general's office said.
Singapore slashed its 2009 growth forecast for a second time this month, saying the economy could shrink as much as 5 percent, as the city-state reels from plunging demand for its exports.
Singapore's economy contracted for a third consecutive quarter as a global slump hurt demand for the city-state's exports, prompting the government to lower its 2009 growth forecast and foreshadowing a deeper downturn for the region.
Singapore's economy contracted for a third consecutive quarter in the October-December period as a global slump hurt demand for the city-state's exports.
Fire broke out in the control room of the world's largest Ferris wheel Tuesday, trapping 173 people hundreds of feet above the ground for hours and forcing rescuers to lower 10 passengers to safety by rope.
Singapore's inflation rate fell to an 11-month low in November as plunging oil prices lowered gasoline costs, according to data released Tuesday by the country's statistics department.
Singapore's non-oil exports, which account for 70 percent of the city-state's gross domestic product, plummeted in November as the economy likely contracted for a third consecutive quarter.
Singapore's state-owned investment company Temasek Holdings said it sold electricity generator PowerSeraya to Malaysia's YTL Power International for 3.8 billion Singapore dollars ($2.5 billion).
DAWN.COM | Business | Pakistan slips five places in global corruption listISLAMABAD: In its Corruption Perception Index for 2009, the Transparency International has placed Pakistan at the 42nd place, slipping five places from 2008 when it was at 47.
Pirates hijack tanker off Somali coast Pirates off Somalia's coast have hijacked a chemical tanker with a North Korean crew, European naval forces reported.
India's Hidden Face in World Narcotics Trade India is the largest poppy cultivating country but it is generally taken for granted that the cultivation is for medicinal purposes.
Obama, West, reread Fukuyama to the end, and look EastThe Western footprint on the world is about to get a whole lot smaller.
Thirsty Singapore Has a New Breed of Bar As Singapore's thirst for cocktails has grown steadily over the last few years, a new generation of bars and clubs has emerged in some memorably unusual places.
Rethinking Cities: IntroductionCurrently, more than half the world's population lives in cities. And the complex collection of systems that make up a city's infrastructure have evolved, creating new and efficient ways to sustain and support a significant concentration of people.
Renault electric vehicle to roll into Israel in 2011"Renault and Israeli electric car infrastructure builder Better Place signed an agreement on Tuesday to import the Fluence ZE to Israel by the first half of 2011.
An analysis of the UBS study (Part 2): Moving towards a Russian standard of living and way of life : The Temasek ReviewNMP Viswa Sadasivan's Maiden Speech in Parliament: NMP Viswa Sadasivan's Maiden Speech in Parliament, 18th August 2009
Healthcare around the world- 4 countries comparedFrance, UK, Singapore and the United States are compared in this simple table to aid understanding of their health systems.
Comparison of Health Care Systems in the United States and Three Other NationsThis article compares the health care systems of four nations, including the United States.
Dr. Li-Ann Thio: All About Her Mother - Above the Law - A Legal Tabloid - News, Gossip, and Colorful Commentary on Law Firms and the Legal Profession
Singapore woman on trial for letting husband cane her son 100 times Singapore - A Singapore woman has to stand trial for allowing her husband to cane her 10-year-old son with 100 strokes as punishment for lying, media reports said Tuesday.
Box clever: Singapore's magic formula for maths success It sounds crazy but Singapore has shot up the league tables by dropping traditional methods from its maths lessons and getting children to be creative.
China warns of tit-for-tat over dairy banNEW DELHI: China has retaliated against India's ban on its dairy products, putting the two neighbours with a legacy of estrangement on the brink of a trade war...
Indian bureaucracy the worst in Asia: SurveySingapore's civil servants are the most efficient among their Asian peers, a business survey on 12 economies released on Wednesday showed, but they tend to clam up unhelpfully when things go wrong...
Christian couple convicted for anti-Muslim bookletsA Christian Singaporean couple were found guilty of sedition on Thursday for distributing evangelical publications that cast Islam in a negative light, court officials said.
Over the past few days, I've written articles for Wayang Party on the international involvement of Joel's Army groups in the steeplejack of AWARE 1 and the actual agenda of the American-based "Christian Nationalist" group Focus on the Family 2.
Re-Arrest Of Mas Selamat Of Ji: A Wake-Up Call For Singapore & Malaysia Mas Selamat Kastari, said to be a leader of the Singapore branch of Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), who escaped from a high security detention centre of Singapore on February 27, 2008, and had remained undetected since then, is reported to have been traced by the Malaysian police afte …
Escaped Bali terror suspect caught in Malaysia - The Boston GlobeBANGKOK - A suspected terrorist leader who took off his pants, wriggled through a bathroom window, and escaped from a high-security prison in Singapore last year has been caught in Malaysia, officials said yesterday.
Swedish nudity in Singapore doesn't payA Swedish man and a Singaporean woman were fined for strolling naked through a busy upscale bar and restaurant area for a stunt after a few drinks, to Singaporean media reported Friday.
In Singapore, a More Progressive Islamic Education Singapore's Al Irsyad Islamic school (madrasa) seeks to attain "balance between the secular and religious" in its education of children. This contrasts with "many traditional madrasas that emphasize religious studies."
Migrant ring leader jailed The leader of a human smuggling syndicate Salam Awang, 62, was sentenced to six years' jail on Wednesday after he was convicted of five charges of engaging in a conspiracy to convey illegal immigrants from Malaysia to Singapore.
Indonesia's time to shine in SE AsiaTo have written a decade ago, or even five years ago when president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono won office, that Indonesia was en route to becoming a beacon of democratic stability in Southeast Asia would have invited derisive laughter, and rightly so.
Man dies after bottle mishapA SINGAPOREAN died of heart failure after his genital became stuck in a soft drink bottle, reported Sin Chew Daily and China Press.
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