Singapore Changi Airport has been voted the World’s Best Airport by air travellers at the 2016 Skytrax World Airport Awards. This is the fourth year in a row that Changi Airport has been honoured with this title, and it is the seventh time in sixteen years that the airport has clinched this top award. This announcement was made on 17 …

The artillery shell cases from the 21-gun salute fired during the State Funeral Procession of founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew will be given to individuals and organisations closely linked to him. A statement from the Prime Minister’s Office on 17 March listed the recipients of the artillery shell cases that were collected after Mr Lee’s funeral on 29 March …

On 16 March, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) announced the arrest of 23 year old Singaporean Wang Yuandongyi, who had intentions to join an anti-ISIS Kurdish militia group fighting in Syria. MHA revealed in a statement that Wang had left Singapore and had begun travelling to Syria earlier this year in January. He left Singapore for a third country, …

Amendments to the Tobacco (Control of Advertisements and Sale) Bill were passed on Monday (14 March) at the sitting of parliament. Following the changes, retailers will be required by the Ministry of Health (MOH) to use storage devices to keep tobacco products out of the direct line of sight of customers from next year onwards. In order to do so, retailers may choose …

By Margaret Yang At 2 am this morning, the US Fed announced that it is keeping the target federal funds rate unchanged at 0.25-0.50% due to concerns on rising risks of global financial and economic developments. This is within expectation as the probability of a March rate hike based on Bloomberg world interest rate probability was only 4% before the …