Government
MINDEF: NS monthly allowance to be raised from $70 to $120 starting 1 March
Starting March this year, the monthly allowance for full-time national servicemen (NSF) and operationally ready national servicemen (NSmen) across all...
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Singapore and Hong Kong Budgets 2020
The two Budgets recently unveiled by Singapore and Hong Kong have at their core expansionary fiscal stimulus designed to stimulate...
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Temasek freeze salaries and promotion hikes for one year starting April for fund-raising
Temasek, the national investment firm, plans to freeze promotion and salaries increments of its workers starting from April for one...
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Economists: Budget 2020 short-term fiscal impulse is modest at best
With the overall deficit burgeoning to record high in over 10 years due to the stimulus package incorporated in Budget...
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Heng Swee Keat: Budget 2020 a “fairly large boost” to economy
In the midst of the Covid-19 outbreak impact, Singapore’s budget offers a “fairly large boost” to the economy to combat...
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Budget 2020: S$5.6 billion for workers and firms, S$800 million to combat Covid-19
The Singapore Budget 2020 was announced on Tuesday (18 Feb) by the Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Heng Swee...
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Fitch: Kuala Lumpur-Singapore HSR to pick up where it was left off
According to Fitch Solutions research on Wednesday (12 Feb), in the “short term”, Malaysia and Singapore will likely restart the...
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SNEF, MOM, NTUC: Companies need to boost business continuity plans
As Singapore raised its level of alert from yellow to orange due to the Coronavirus, business should adopt measures such...
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ESG: Initiatives to create S$17.3b in company value, 21,700 in jobs
With the backing from the government body Enterprise Singapore (ESG) last year, Singapore firms could create S$17.3 billion in value...
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SenSen Networks won S$1.15 million tender to alleviate congestion and parking problems
The consultation service company for smart city solutions, SenSen Networks Ltd and its systems integrator partner ATT Systems won a...
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High Court dismisses all three Section 377A challenges -
57-year old seafood seller identified as first from Huanan Market to test positive for COVID-19 -
Moscow begins lockdown, as Russia regions prepare for confinement -
WHO refused to acknowledge Taiwan, praises Singapore instead -
National Wages Council: 10% cut in basic pay or lower MVC, if wage cuts necessary -
Columbia Sportswear’s CEO takes pay cut on own salary while continuing to pay employees amid COVID-19 crisis -
PM Lee cautions public about fake COVID-19 email allegedly sent by him asking for “contribution” -
Impossible Foods launches Earth Month campaign to highlight Singapore’s environmental impact -
German Finance Minister committed suicide for worrying about the economic fallout caused by COVID-19 pandemic -
Lightning never strikes twice? For Dr Tan Cheng Bock, it could even be thrice -
Bethany Church Singapore: Dog abuse case does not relate to the church or its activities -
Getting to know what is monetary policy in Singapore & the S$NEER -
Govt should “exercise restraint” in deploying “institutional prerogatives” when wanting to call for early general elections, says Prof Donald Low -
Manpower Ministry to consider appeals from self-employed and freelancers who do not qualify for COVID-19 relief scheme -
SIA CEO now says to take 30% pay cut after Temasek’s bailout; his pay was $1.4m with total $5.5m pkg last FY
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Legal brothels in S'pore to close until the end of next month -
This is not a time for the government to be playing Jekyll and Hyde with Singaporeans -
PM Lee goes on walkabout in Ang Mo Kio, distributes bottles of hand sanitiser to patrons at Teck Ghee Court Food Centre -
Ministry of Manpower will not extend temporary housing support to Malaysian workers -
Dr Tan Cheng Bock: Obvious choice between an early election which may cause a far worse health crisis and a legal constitutional problem -
Resilience Budget: S'pore to freeze all govt charges and fees for one year until Mar 2021, temporarily suspend student loan repayments, says DPM Heng Swee Keat -
DPM Heng had responded to some requests for private-hire bus drivers facing challenges amid COVID-19 crisis, says WP’s chief -
More Indonesians carrying Covid-19 virus arriving to seek treatments in Singapore hospitals -
What are we to make of an opposition that is reduced to being a mere spectator in a crisis? -
Third death from COVID-19 infection in Singapore, 70-yr-old who had no recent travel history to affected areas and link to previous cases -
Lee Hsien Yang shares photo of late Lee Kuan Yew’s favourite carpet on his father’s fifth death anniversary -
Temasek's largest shareholdings plunged S$34.24 billion in three months -
Closing our borders to short term visitors but still going ahead with general elections, is contradictory -
Netizens condemn Lawrence Wong for delaying ban on foreign visitors and putting economy first before SG lives -
Lawyer Teo Soh Lung criticizes mainstream media for misleading people, calls SM Teo’s explanations on caretaker govt as ‘talking nonsense’
