The Workers’ Party’s decision to table a parliamentary motion on Singapore’s economic future is more than procedural opposition politics. It represents a substantive attempt to articulate an alternative economic framework — one that places distributional outcomes, local enterprise vitality, and…
The numbers tell a story of contradictions. Singapore’s labour market expanded for a nineteenth consecutive quarter in Q2 2026, adding 10,700 jobs and keeping unemployment at a low 2 per cent — yet retrenchments climbed to their highest level since…
The Singapore government announced on Wednesday that hawkers operating cooked food stalls will receive S$1,200 in rental support while market stallholders will receive S$600, disbursed across six months from September 2026 to February 2027, as rising costs linked to the…
Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong warned on Tuesday (Jul 28) that Singapore’s rule of law remains an unfinished project, calling it a “continuing endeavour” for future generations as they confront novel pressures from artificial intelligence, online harms, climate change and…
A research team at the University of Chicago has demonstrated that removing a small segment from a rice plant’s own genetic code — rather than inserting foreign DNA — can raise crop yields by up to 25% while simultaneously improving…
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced on Monday, July 27, a further tightening of its monetary policy stance, marking the second consecutive adjustment in as many scheduled reviews and confounding the majority of market analysts who had anticipated no…
What Has Happened The United States began imposing a 12.5 per cent tariff on a range of Singapore exports from Friday, 24 July, following the conclusion of a Section 301 investigation by the US Trade Representative (USTR) into 60 trading…
A Convergence of Pressures Markets are not merely nervous. They are navigating three simultaneous stress tests — an oil shock, a bond market repricing, and an earnings season that will either justify or demolish the AI valuation premium that has…
The numbers are striking. Singapore’s non-oil domestic exports climbed 20.7 per cent year on year in June 2025, and behind that headline figure lies a story that is both impressive and structurally narrow — one where a single sector is…
South Korea’s Financial Services Commission has announced a temporary ban on new listings of single-stock leveraged exchange-traded funds, alongside a sharp increase in the minimum deposit required for retail investors to trade such products — a regulatory reversal that follows…
