Economics

Low Yen Ling says MTI and MAS don’t expect persistent inflation but they now say inflation projected to “stay elevated”

27/01/2023

Indian rupee falls 60% since signing of CECA while Singapore becomes top investor in India

25/01/2023

AFP

Macau ponders future even as tourists and gamblers return

23/01/2023

AFP

World Bank cuts 2023 world growth to 1.7% in ‘sharp, long-lasting slowdown’

10/01/2023

Economics

Asia

The richest 1% hold almost a quarter of Asia’s wealth, urgent government action needed to tackle extreme inequality

27/09/2022

A quarter of wealth in Asia is concentrated in the hands of the wealthy one per cent, as the region...

Business

China’s state media tries to reassure investors over crackdown

08/09/2021

China's recent clampdowns on a range of industries including tech firms and the education sector will not detract from its...

Ireland fines WhatsApp for breaching EU privacy laws

02/09/2021

Ireland on Thursday slapped Facebook's WhatsApp messaging service with a record fine for breaching EU data privacy laws after European...

Current Affairs

NDR 2021: Time for S’pore to “change gears” towards generating new economic growth, says PM Lee

29/08/2021

It is high time for Singapore to "change gears" toward generating new growth, particularly when economic powerhouses such as the...

China

China sifts opportunity from ashes of US Afghan project

18/08/2021

China's overtures to the Taliban indicate a bid to extract maximum benefit from the dramatic collapse of the US project...

China

China signals more crackdowns in pipeline for businesses

12/08/2021

China will implement tougher anti-monopoly rules and penalties over the next five years, according to new guidelines from the country's...

ST Forumer calls for more public discourse on how well has Temasek really been doing over the years

Current Affairs

Temasek: We have lower returns cause we don’t want to see an unliveable planet

21/07/2021

Last Sat (17 Jul), a member of the public, Mr Alfred Chan Hock Yuen, wrote to ST Forum commenting on...

Temasek’s 24.5% return greatly underperformed against benchmark MSCI World Index

20/07/2021

Last Sat (17 Jul), a member of the public, Mr Alfred Chan Hock Yuen, wrote to ST Forum commenting on...

Gov’t continues to issue motherhood statements on CECA, but how does it actually benefit the average Singaporean?

Current Affairs

Later CECA reviews show India continually wants more professionals to work in S’pore

10/07/2021

During the Parliamentary debate over the India-Singapore Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA) on Tue (6 Jul), Deputy Prime Minister Heng...

FTAs, CECA have not affected immigration authorities’ power to regulate entry of foreign PMETs into Singapore under such agreements: Ong Ye Kung