Stories By: South China Morning Post (144 Articles Found)
Singapore is likely to see a boom in EV charging operators as efforts are made to expand the charging infrastructure for green cars amid moves by the government to phase out ICE vehicles by 2040. “With the anticipated…
Sue-Anne Chng used to wear a different outfit on all 15 days of CNY, when it is customary to don new clothes to symbolise a fresh start. But this year she will wear second-hand items exchanged for her…
When fresh meat and vegetables run low at home, part-time receptionist Linda Lim, 61, usually only has one supermarket in mind for grocery shopping: a Sheng Siong outlet just five minutes away by car. For her, the no…
In the early weeks of Jan, unusually cool weather descended on Singapore and its neighbouring countries. While the dip in temperatures came with heavy downpours of rain, it was a change Jessie Tay embraced. The marketing executive, 32,…
WEF said on Wed that its annual meeting, which has already been postponed and moved from Switzerland to Singapore, will be pushed back again due to pandemic-related challenges. The annual gathering of the world’s political, economic and business…
Some 60,000 residents in Singapore have received their first Covid-19 vaccine shots since Dec 30, authorities said on Fri. Meanwhile, Singapore announced that it would tighten Covid-19 restrictions slightly, following a small spike in infections in recent days,…
In the coming months, more than a thousand government officials, business leaders and sportspeople are expected to flock to Singapore, a nation that seems to have contained Covid-19 infections far better than US or countries in Europe. WEF…
On Jan 20 last year, a 66-year-old man from the central Chinese city of Wuhan arrived in Singapore and headed to the Shangri-La hotel on Sentosa island for a family holiday. Within three days, he became Singapore’s first…
Singapore Art Week (SAW) gets under way this week, even though the country has yet to relax quarantine requirements for most overseas visitors. Now in its ninth year, the annual festival was initially conceived as a way to…
For many observers, the 2016 bilateral agreement between Malaysia and Singapore to construct a HSR link was a seminal moment in the neighbours’ history. With the deal unravelling at the stroke of midnight on Jan 1 – following…
A Bangladeshi migrant worker is suing his ex-employer and dormitory operator in Singapore, accusing them of “false imprisonment” after he was locked in his room during a coronavirus outbreak. Most of Singapore’s more than 58,000 cases have been…
Senior government ministers in Singapore on Tue defended the use of data from the country’s Covid-19 contact-tracing programme in criminal investigations, saying it would be used only in cases involving “serious offences”. Police had used the information from…
Singapore may be undergoing its worst recession since independence, with retrenchments and job losses at record levels, but property-obsessed Singaporeans are still queuing up to buy multimillion-dollar homes. While the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more than 1.6…
Since the coronavirus pandemic swept the globe this year, cities from Asia to US and Europe have become stuck in a cycle. Cases rise, so they lock down. Cases fall, so they ease the measures. Then cases rise…
Even in an atypical year for retailers, Jay’s business has taken an unusual trajectory. In Aug, as the economic fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic forced many businesses to fold, he launched Got Drip?, an online coffee business that…
Property investors from mainland China are sharpening their focus on Portugal and Singapore as alternative investment locations, while shifting more money out of traditional markets like US and Australia and Britain amid concerns about fraying trade relations. While…
Staff at a factory in northwest England run by engines maker Rolls-Royce on Fri began a three-week strike over the possible relocation of operations to Singapore, the British aerospace giant confirmed. The industrial action at the facility, in…
Designer Tan Yuan Yun headed to Singapore’s Telok Ayer district last Fri evening for a meal with three friends, only to be shocked to find that most outlets were fully booked. She eventually secured a table at a…
When class ends at 3pm, Nat rushes from her school in Singapore’s east to her workplace 40 minutes away, where she’ll be on her feet for seven hours as a waitress at a bar. The hard-earned money is…
Singapore on Tues unveiled a further easing of Covid-19 social-distancing rules, but officials say a full economic reopening hinges on a substantial increase in usage of the locally developed TraceTogether contact-tracing app as well as digital check-ins at…
Rising business costs, uncertainties arising from souring US-China ties, and border closures due to the coronavirus pandemic – these are some factors prompting Chinese firms to increasingly adopt a business approach that has helped corporations diversify their operations…
As Singapore’s economy continues to reel from the impact of Covid-19, a lifeline for companies in the worst-hit business sectors is starting to dry up. Despite a government pledge to backstop bridging loans – credit extended to companies…
For the past two weeks, Singapore has consistently recorded two or fewer Covid-19 infections within its local community each day and for the past week, the average number of daily cases among foreign workers housed in mega-dormitories has…
When California-based performance artist and actor Loo Zihan returned home to Singapore in Mar, he began taking long walks along the Rail Corridor – a stretch of greenery that spans the country’s old railway line. The three-hour, 9.5km…
Before the Covid-19 pandemic closed the door on intl tourism, Singaporean travel entrepreneur Scott Tay journeyed to some of the world’s most remote places. Now confined to Singapore thanks to global travel restrictions, the adrenaline junkie has found…
Singapore’s daily coronavirus case count is set to dip significantly in the coming weeks, authorities say, turning a corner as the testing of some 300,000 migrant workers living in cramped dormitories – once the epicentre of the city…
Malaysia and Singapore on Thurs signed a fresh agreement to proceed with the stalled construction of a metro link between the two neighbours seen as crucial to easing traffic congestion at one of the world’s busiest border crossings.…
Singapore is launching a S$45 million domestic tourism campaign to persuade its people to look at the island nation with fresh eyes, as it looks to boost the local economy as the Covid-19 pandemic. The hope is that…
fortunes around from being the most infected Southeast Asian country in Apr with more than 1,000 infections a day, to several hundred new cases a day. At its peak, Singapore reported 1,426 new coronavirus infections on Apr 20,…
Naver, South Korea’s largest internet portal, has confirmed that it moved its overseas data backup centre from Hong Kong to Singapore amid fears that Chinese authorities could use the city’s far-reaching national security law to access users’ information.…
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