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SINGAPORE -- Singapore will launch dual investigations of the Baltimore bridge collapse, in which a vessel flagged under the city-state collided with a flyover in the U.S. state of Maryland. Six construction workers are presumed to have been killed in the accident.
SINGAPORE -- Singapore's financial regulator is pushing family office applicants to respond promptly to scrutiny, or risk having their efforts to obtain tax breaks rendered fruitless, as the Southeast Asian financial center tightens procedures around foreign wealth inflows in the wake of a massive money laundering bust.
SINGAPORE -- Pius Chuo, a 30-year-old Malaysian working as a business development executive for an energy company in Singapore, plans to buy a house back home this year, as real estate is becoming more affordable relative to his income as the Malaysian currency falls.
SINGAPORE -- Companies hiring foreign professionals in Singapore next year will need to pay them higher minimum salaries to qualify for work visas, a move that could affect global businesses that plan to send expats to the regional economic hub.
SINGAPORE -- Banks in the 10-member ASEAN bloc may be seeing the last of beefy earnings from loans in the current higher financing era as lower interest rates loom.
SINGAPORE -- The information and media authorities of Singapore and Malaysia on Sunday inked an agreement to fight scams across telecommunications channels, after residents of the city-state were cheated of 651.8 million Singapore dollars ($484.9 million) last year.
SINGAPORE -- Singapore on Thursday revised its economic growth rate for 2023 to 1.1% for the year, down from a preliminary estimate of 1.2% after weak exports in December.
SINGAPORE -- DBS Group Holdings said on Wednesday that it had cut the pay of senior management after a series of digital banking failures dogged Singapore's largest bank by total assets last year.