SINGAPORE — Whenever her air-conditioning unit broke down, Dr Chua Yen Ping used to wonder what needed to be fixed when the repair man could solve her woes in just minutes. So the 48-year-old ...

SINGAPORE — The Goods and Services Tax (GST) will be raised from 7 to 9 per cent some time between 2021 and 2025, Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat announced on Monday (Feb 19) in his Budget speech.

Singapore incurred a fiscal deficit of S$3.6 billion for the 2023 financial year Apart from a "better-than-expected" revenue collection, the Government had spent more than predicted Health ...

SINGAPORE — A businessman was on Thursday (Feb 18) charged with another 195 counts of cheating and dishonesty in relation to a multi-million loan programme involving more than S$16 million ...

SINGAPORE — In a global environment that has “darkened dramatically”, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Lawrence Wong announced on Friday (Feb 16) that the Government will spend ...

Mr Heng also announced that from April 1, travellers will be allowed to buy only two litres of duty-free liquor products, down from the current three litres. Currently, travellers have three ...

Around the world, 170 countries and territories have implemented some form of goods and services tax (GST) Singapore's GST is among the lowest in the world It is also perhaps the only country that ...

Former Transport Minister S Iswaran, who is facing various bribery and corruption-related charges, has been given permission to leave Singapore temporarily Iswaran, 61, appeared in court on ...

SINGAPORE — Singapore has the highest level of social cohesion compared to other countries from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), followed by Thailand and the Philippines, a ...

The Tripartite Committee on Workplace Fairness recommended legislation to help workers facing workplace discrimination in its interim report published on Feb 13 Under the recommended laws ...

The police have frozen 121 bank accounts and recovered about S$2 million lost in the wake of the OCBC phishing scam Another S$2.2 million of victims’ funds have been traced to 89 overseas bank ...

SINGAPORE — About 1,000 staff and guests at the Carlton Hotel in Bras Basah had to be evacuated on Thursday (Feb 14) afternoon after a “small explosion” and fire broke out in a switch room.