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Coronavirus outbreak delays job offers in Asia's biggest financial hubs

Recruiting has become less of a priority as firms including DBS Group Holdings Ltd. have highlighted the revenue impact of worsening business conditions.

Hunt on for 'patient zero' who spread coronavirus globally from Singapore

Experts say finding this so-called 'patient zero' is critical for tracing all those potentially exposed to infection and containing the outbreak, but as time passes, the harder it becomes

Authority an illusion, India needs better Opposition, says Abhijit Banerjee

He advocated that the people living in abysmal poverty should be encouraged by giving them assets and freebies.

Singapore overhauls fund regime to bolster industry, attract offshore funds

Country likely to edge out Mauritius as a favoured destination for offshore funds

Singapore tourist arrivals reach new highs in Q3, 22% visitors from China

About five million travellers came to the island between July and September

Facebook corrects user's post after Singapore invokes fake news law

The correction notice was embedded at the bottom of the original post without any alterations to the text, but it could not be seen by other users inside and outside the country

India, Singapore agree to conduct trilateral maritime exercise annually

India and Singapore have a robust defence cooperation

Hope that issues with India are resolved so it can join RCEP: Singapore Min

India remains concerned that the China-dominated RCEP would be disadvantageous to its farmers and MSMEs.

Experts suggest Singapore GST model to ensure ease of compliance in India

Citing the Singapore model, experts have suggested the introduction of new user-friendly measures to ensure ease of Goods and Services Tax (GST) compliance in India. The grievance redressal mechanism under the Singapore GST is very refined unlike Indian GST where the help lines are mostly of no help and advance ruling authorities are heavily revenue biased, failing to achieve the purpose with which they were formed, said Sandeep Chilana, managing partner, Chilana & Chilana law offices. Ease of compliance is the foremost thing India needs to learn and adopt from implementation of value added tax or Goods and Services Tax in developed jurisdictions, including Singapore, he said. While India is shortly moving to a single form regime, the information required to be filed is still extensive. The other important aspect is clarity in law. Despite two years having passed, there are still many grey areas such as inter-office services which require immediate attention, Chilana ...

GoAir to expand flight network, connect Singapore with Bengaluru, Kolkata

Singapore will be the airline's eighth overseas destinations, while Aizwal the 25 domestic one, GoAir said in a release.

Soon flying taxis to arrive in Singapore to test cleaner, quieter sky ride

Citi expects designers to keep tweaking the technology and working with regulators so they can start to offer regular air taxi services from 2025

Singapore eyes million visitor arrival from India for fourth year in a row

Singapore is looking at continuing the four year trend of having over a million visitor arrivals from India in the current year as it undertakes a number of measures to hard sell the country as a preferred destination. India is currently the third largest source market for visitor arrivals to Singapore, a senior tourism board official said. "It has been a soft year for Indian arrivals to Singapore. But the Singapore Tourism Board is working with airlines, travel agents and trade partners to finish the year on more than one million visitor arrivals again in 2019," Singapore Tourism Board's India, Middle East & South Asia Regional Director G B Srithar told PTI. In 2018, for the fourth year in a row, India contributed more than a million visitor arrivals to Singapore, he added. "India is also the number one source market for cruise tourism for Singapore. 1.6 lakh cruise travellers from India visited Singapore in 2018," Srithar said. When asked about the factors which make Singapore a

Why are 65-year-olds learning how to program software in aging Singapore?

In Singapore, where productivity is falling as the labor force gets older, workers are being encouraged to adopt new skills for a digital world

Govt's big push to attract tourists: One-month e-visa at flexible charges

High visa charges is one reason that makes India less attractive to tourists and so the fee is being reduced to increase footfalls and foreign exchange receipts

Singapore to roll out 'friendly' robots to spruce up hotels, shopping malls

The robots speak all four of multi-ethnic Singapore's official languages -- English, Malay, Mandarin, and Tamil -- plus Japanese and "Singlish"

Hong Kong millionaires moving cash to Singapore as political crisis lingers

Hong Kong police arrested more than 40 people after attempts to clear the remnants of a mass anti-government march resulted in clashes with demonstrators on Sunday

Indian-origin banker siphons off $10 million in Singapore, gets 13 yrs jail

In an attempt to pay back his former clients, Kale, 43, forged signatures to siphon off $10 million from his present clients

Singapore home prices fall most since 2016, luxury hardest hit

The private residential property index dropped 0.6% from 2018's last quarter, preliminary data from the Urban Redevelopment Authority showed on Monday

Singapore lowers Q2 GDP growth over tariff war, interest rate hike globally

The Monetary Authority of Singapore in April tightened its monetary policy for the first time in six years

Singapore terrorism threat highest since 9/11 attack at WTC in 2001

Southeast Asian governments have for years highlighted the risk from returning fighters alongside those radicalised at home via the Internet.