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Resident unemployment rate rose to 3.3 per cent in March, highest in over a decade: Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat

Singapore’s resident unemployment rate rose to 3.3 per cent in March this…

Budget 2020 Care and Support cash payouts to be made to eligible S’poreans from 18 June: MOF

Eligible Singaporeans will be receiving cash payouts under the Unity and Resilience…

Resilience Budget: Arts and culture sector to receive additional S$55 million aid package, support in upskilling and digitalisation

Singapore’s arts and culture industry will receive an additional S$55 million in…

Resilience Budget: Govt to provide “more sustained support” to low-income employees, aviation workers and the self-employed, says DPM Heng Swee Keat

The introduction of a S$48 billion supplementary Budget — called the Resilience…

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

To ease the financial commitments of Singaporeans during the COVID-19 outbreak, Singapore…

Govt to prioritise SMEs, self-employed and retrenched workers in second stimulus package, says DPM Heng Swee Keat

The Government’s second stimulus package will focus on supporting small- and medium-sized…

SDP to hold forum on Budget 2020 tonight, welcome questions from public viewers via livestream

The Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) will be holding a forum on Budget…

Budget 2020: MPs call for greater support for older workers and other vulnerable segments of S’pore’s population in the midst of COVID-19 outbreak

Following Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat’s Budget 2020 speech last week,…

Economists: Budget 2020 short-term fiscal impulse is modest at best

With the overall deficit burgeoning to record high in over 10 years…
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  • 20 February 2020

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…
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  • 20 February 2020