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Singapore Emerges as Asia Pacific’s 6th Easiest Business Hub, Surpassing Vietnam and Thailand
Retail News Asia
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August 29, 2025
Singapore has found itself in a challenging position in the latest Global Business Complexity Index, landing 48th out of 79 global destinations for 2025. This index, which scrutinizes how easy or difficult it is to set up and operate businesses...
singapore 'We don't need to be colonised in our minds': Shanmugam slams tobacco harm reduction group's agenda against anti-vaping laws
Asiaone
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August 30, 2025
Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam has slammed arguments that Singapore's decision to treat vaping like drug offences undermines harm reduction approaches on tobacco. He was talking to the media at a community event in Yishun on Saturday (Aug 30)....
Global Trade Review Announces GTR Asia 2025 in Singapore - the premier platform for the trade community in the Asia Pacific region - hits over 1,500 registration for September 2-3
Korea Herald
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August 30, 2025
SINGAPORE, Aug. 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Global Trade Review (GTR) is delighted to announce the return of GTR Asia 2025, taking place in Singapore on September 2–3, 2025. Serving as the premier platform for the Asia Pacific trade community, the...
Maya Devi University, Dehradun–The Emerging Innovation-Driven Global Education Hub of Uttarakhand
The Tribune (Chandigarh)
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August 30, 2025
PNN New Delhi [India], August 30: Maya Devi University (MDU), Dehradun, is redefining higher education in Uttarakhand by going beyond traditional learning models. As an innovation-focused and holistic growth-oriented institution, MDU is fast...
Nigeria, Singapore sign bilateral treaty to deepen economic partnership
The Cable
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August 30, 2025
Nigeria and Singapore have signed a bilateral investment treaty to encourage and safeguard investments between their countries. In a statement issued Saturday, Alkasim Abdulkadir, special assistant on media and communications strategy to Yusuf...
Ghana and Singapore sign two key MoUs
GhanaWeb
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August 30, 2025
Ghana and Singapore have signed two key Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) aimed at strengthening bilateral cooperation during President John Dramani Mahama's state visit. The agreements were signed following a meeting between President Mahama and...
Son of Oxford University-educated RAF hero reflects on his dad's legacy
This is Oxfordshire
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August 30, 2025
Sir John Curtiss, who died in 2013, was part of the Oxford University Air Squadron and was one of the most distinguished senior officers of his generation. He played key roles in the Berlin Airlift and the Falklands War, and was the first...
QICCA participates in Singapore Convention Week on Mediation 2025
Gulf Times
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August 30, 2025
The delegation was led by QICCA Vice-Chairman Sheikh Dr Thani bin Ali al-Thani and included Secretary-General Ibrahim Shahbik. A delegation from the Qatar International Center for Conciliation and Arbitration (QICCA) at Qatar Chamber participated...
Singapore's Loh hits out at BWF officiating
The Malaysian Star
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August 30, 2025
PETALING JAYA: The issue of poor officiating continues to plague the Badminton World Federation (BWF), with Singapore’s Loh Kean Yew the latest to voice his frustration after a controversial umpire call during his World Championships quarter-final...
Singapore’s 60th National Day Celebration Held in Vientiane
Lao News Agency
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KPL The Embassy of Singapore in the Lao PDR hosted a celebration of Singapore’s 60th National Day on August 29 in Vientiane. The event was attended by Mr. Thongsavanh Phomvihane, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Lao PDR, along with other...
Singapore’s climate reporting delay is ‘fuel for the sustainability deprioritisation fire’ in Asia, say experts
Eco-Business
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August 30, 2025
While all Singapore-listed firms were initially required to start making climate disclosures by 2025, under the revised rules, non-Straits Times Index (STI) issuers with a market capitalisation of S$1 billion (US$780 million) and above will only...
Olympic swimmer detained in Singapore for shoplifting: ‘I’ve learned great lessons’
New York Post
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August 30, 2025
ROME — Two Italian swimmers returning home from the world championships in Singapore were stopped and briefly detained by airport authorities on the Asian island for shoplifting. Benedetta Pilato, who won a bronze medal in the 50-meter...
Flying Through Singapore? New Vape Rules Could Mean Jail Or Deportation
Live and Let's Fly - California
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August 30, 2025
Singapore is turning up the heat on vaping (especially drug-laced “K-pods”) with a sweeping crackdown that affects residents, visitors, and even transiting passengers. Vaping has been banned in Singapore since 2018, but starting September 1, 2025,...
Sci-fi or reality? Why Singapore is betting big on quantum computing's potential to be the next big thing
Channel News Asia
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August 30, 2025
Not investing in quantum technologies and quantum computing could also pose a risk for Singapore, especially in the cybersecurity space. At Singapore-based startups pQCee and SpeQtral, the race is on to develop quantum-safe technologies to protect...
Government looking at 'stiffer actions' against owners, retailers of non-compliant AMDs: Goh Pei Ming
Channel News Asia
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August 30, 2025
SINGAPORE: In view of the recent spate of residential fires, the government is considering "stiffer actions" against owners and retailers of non-compliant active mobility devices (AMDs) and measures to improve fire safety protection, said Minister...
Singapore PM to check out India next week
Web NewsWire
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August 30, 2025
Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong will be on a three-day see to India from September 2 with a multitude of MoUs slated to be signed in between the 2 nations throughout his check out, sources stated. The check out will be a peak in the 60th...
Engineering exports to Turkey, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Singapore fall sharply in July
The Economic Times
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August 30, 2025
Engineering goods exports to some of the key countries, like Turkey, UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore, recorded a decline in July 2025. The sharp year-on-year decline in exports to Turkey could be attributed to geopolitical tensions with India. In...
St Luke’s Hospital puts ‘community’ back into healthcare in Singapore
The Straits Times
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August 30, 2025
SINGAPORE – Mr Nar Swee Kim and his wife Lee Lan came from Malaysia to Singapore in 2011 to be with two of their six children. Mr Nar, now 91, and Madam Lee, 86, have both been bedbound for the past three years. He suffered multiple strokes and...
Scam victims in Singapore lost $456m in first half of 2025 with almost 20,000 cases reported
The Straits Times
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August 30, 2025
SINGAPORE – Close to half a billion dollars was lost to scams in the first half of 2025, with almost 20,000 cases reported in Singapore. The $456.4 million lost between January and June 2025 was a drop from the $522.4 million lost during the same...
QICCA participates in Singapore convention week on mediation
Gulf Times
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August 30, 2025
A delegation from the Qatar International Center for Conciliation and Arbitration (QICCA) at Qatar Chamber participated in a forum titled "Building Bridges in ADR: MENA meets Singapore", held in Singapore as part of the Singapore Convention Week...