Singapore’s property sector has broadly welcomed a new regulatory measure requiring agents to complete at least three transactions over three years to qualify for licence renewal, even as industry voices flag a potential loophole and call for robust safeguards around…
A Troubling Spike in a Specific Cohort Singapore recorded 441 suicides in 2024, according to finalised data from the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) released by the Samaritans of Singapore (SOS) on Tuesday, 28 July. The headline figure represents a…
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…
ASEAN foreign ministers declared “significant progress” in negotiations on a long-awaited Code of Conduct (COC) for the South China Sea at their 59th Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Manila on Friday, 25 July, expressing collective hope that talks could be concluded…
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…
The question sounds almost implausible at first: could a malicious actor rent cloud computing capacity, run a particularly aggressive GPU workload, and cause a physical blackout affecting tens of thousands of people? According to researchers at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou,…
A resignation, a retail retreat, and the quiet machinery of Singapore’s political order — all unfolding within the span of a single Monday. When Acting Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs Faishal Ibrahim stepped down from politics on 20 July, citing a…
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…
Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower announced on July 19 that outsourced workers covered under the Progressive Wage Model will see their minimum annual leave entitlement rise from seven days to ten days, implemented progressively from 2029. The change covers five PWM…
Singapore’s land constraints are real. So is the cost of ignoring them. When the Housing and Development Board announced last week that Sunset Way — and with it, a significant portion of Maju Forest — would be developed for residential…
