"Singapore"

SINGAPORE - State investor Temasek and DBS Bank will jointly launch a US$500 million (S$677 million) growth-stage debt financing platform.

Singapore is further tightening community safe management measures by going back to Phase 2 (Heightened Alert), which takes effect from July 22 through Aug. 18.

SINGAPORE - Certain growth areas have been identified within the aviation industry, and the Government is trying to make sure the country captures these, Manpower Minister Tan See Leng said in Parliament on Tuesday (July 27).

Bangkok Airways to resume its first international flight (Samui – Singapore), starting from 1 August 2021 onwards

SINGAPORE - Singapore will review its Covid-19 restrictions in early August, and ease some measures if virus clusters are under control and hospitalisation rates remain low.

SINGAPORE - New restaurants are feeling the heat from the changing rules for dining in.

SINGAPORE - Visitors to wet markets and hawker centres will be required to check in with their TraceTogether app or token as part of tighter measures to stem Covid-19 infection, which has so far spread to 35 markets and food centres.

SINGAPORE - Asia-Pacific economies should support one another to tackle pandemics, and countries whose vaccination programmes are ahead should make their excess vaccine supplies available to others, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Friday (July 16).

A cruise ship returned to Singapore after a COVID-19 case was found on board, the Straits Times reported on Wednesday.

SINGAPORE - The Singapore economy grew at a record pace in the second quarter of 2021, due to the comparison with the same period last year when the Covid-19 pandemic plunged the economy into its worst recession.

SINGAPORE - Restaurants are getting a booster shot from diners eager to go out with family and friends since the announcement last week that five people can dine in from Monday (July 12). When dining in resumed on June 21 after phase two (heightened alert), only groups of two peeople were allowed.

SINGAPORE - A total of 452 suicides were reported in Singapore last year, the highest figure since 2012.