At the Singapore Maritime Week (SMW) organised by the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) earlier this month, Minister for Transport Ong Ye Kung launched the second phase of MPA’s digitalPORT@SGTM. This marked the latest major step in the digitalisation journey of Singapore’s maritime industry as it leverages digitalisation initiatives to further cement its... » read more
Singapore, Apr 29, 2021 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Moomoo Inc, an all-in-one digitalised stock trading and wealth management platform and a wholly owned subsidiary of Futu Holdings Ltd (Nasdaq: FUTU), announced today that it has been selected as the title sponsor of the 2021 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders Meeting live stream event. Yahoo Finance... » read more
The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) has signed a memorandum of cooperation with six companies, namely BW Group, Sembcorp Marine, Eastern Pacific Shipping, Ocean Network Express, Foundation Det Norske Veritas and BHP, to establish a fund to set up a maritime decarbonisation centre in Singapore. Under the partnership, each firm will contribute $10... » read more
SINGAPORE – A police station inspector was charged in a district court on Tuesday (April 27) after he allegedly molested two men at a police facility. Yick Wai Hong, now 46, faces two molestation charges. He is said to have committed the offences in January last year. His alleged victims cannot be identified due to... » read more
SINGAPORE – Singapore has sent two planeloads of oxygen cylinders to help India address its unprecedented oxygen crisis arising from a second wave of Covid-19 infections. The Republic of Singapore Air Force will transport the cylinders on board two C-130 aircraft from Singapore to West Bengal in India. Second Minister for Foreign Affairs Maliki Osman on... » read more
SINGAPORE – The much-anticipated air travel bubble to allow quarantine-free travel between Singapore and Hong Kong is set to take off on May 26 – six months after its initial planned launch. Originally planned to start in November last year, it was deferred by both parties due to the worsening Covid-19 situation in Hong Kong.... » read more
SINGAPORE – When an Internet shutdown in Teheran derailed a key Iranian witness from getting his visa application cleared for an arbitration hearing in Singapore, he was flown to Turkish city Istanbul instead and testified via video link. The scramble to meet the scheduled hearing deadline included getting a Farsi-English translator and also someone from... » read more
SINGAPORE – Outgoing Education Minister Lawrence Wong gave out food hampers and green packets on Saturday (April 24) to residents in Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC, where he serves as MP and adviser. This was part of a two-day event that started on Saturday to help 550 households with their expenses during the ongoing festive period of Ramadan... » read more
SINGAPORE – Flooded pavements across Singapore on Saturday (April 17) have raised the question: Going forward, can such events can be prevented altogether? After all, Singapore has already spent $2 billion on drainage improvement works over the last decade, and plans to put in close to $1.4 billion more into such projects in the next five... » read more
SINGAPORE (BLOOMBERG) – Singapore and Hong Kong called off an announcement planned for Thursday (April 22) on an air travel bubble between Asia’s two major financial hubs, according to people familiar with the matter, the second time in five months the highly anticipated arrangement appears to have run into obstacles. No reason was immediately provided... » read more
SINGAPORE, Apr 21, 2021 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Anacle Systems Limited (“Anacle”) has been selected by the Singapore Energy Market Authority (“EMA”) to develop and testbed Narrowband Internet-of-Things (NB-IoT) enabled advanced electricity meters. The future meters will be based on Anacle’s leading edge Tesseract® series of hyper-smart meters. This initiative is a collaboration... » read more
SINGAPORE – The bodies of two men, aged 26 and 28, were retrieved from the Singapore River early on Sunday (April 18). Police said they were alerted at 1.57am to a case of suspected drowning near 6 Eu Tong Sen Street – the address of Clarke Quay Central. A spokesman for the Singapore Civil Defence... » read more
SINGAPORE (THE BUSINESS TIMES) – Employers in Singapore seek to hire those with communication skills, problem-solving skills and strategic thinking over those with traditional attributes, professional networking platform LinkedIn said in a report. Looking into the future of work, its survey found that 39 per cent of companies in Singapore look for those with technical... » read more
SINGAPORE, Apr 9, 2021 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Media Publishares, publishers of Vogue, Esquire, Robb Report and Buro in Singapore, announces a partnership with VIDY to launch and develop an NFT platform catering to the fashion, arts and music industry. VIDY, founded by Singaporean techpreneur Matthew Lim and Harvard University alumni Patrick Colangelo,... » read more
SINGAPORE – Singapore and the United States will deepen bilateral cooperation in the transport sector, working together in areas such as reviving international air travel in a safe manner amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The two countries will also strengthen cooperation in multilateral organisations such as the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), the Ministry of Transport... » read more
SINGAPORE, Apr 9, 2021 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Media Publishares, publishers of Vogue, Esquire, Robb Report and Buro in Singapore announce a partnership with VIDY to launch and develop an NFT platform catering to the fashion, arts and music industry. Founded by Singaporean tech-preneur Matthew Lim and Harvard University alumni Patrick Colangelo, VIDY... » read more
SINGAPORE – The practice session in Oman on April 1 had ended like so many others, with windsurfer Amanda Ng taking her board out of the water as she wrapped up her preparations for the Mussanah Open Championship. But as she trod on the slippery surface, she slipped and as she landed, she was greeted... » read more
SINGAPORE – Singapore sailor Ryan Lo has unofficially secured a quota spot for the Republic at the Tokyo Olympics with an unassailable lead going into the final day of the Asian qualifiers on Thursday (April 8). With just the medal race left in the April 1-8 Mussanah Open Championship in Oman, Laser sailor Lo has... » read more
SINGAPORE – Singapore has launched a new certification programme for the meetings, incentives, conventions and exhibitions (Mice) sector for large scale events to be conducted in a safe manner. Event organisers, venue owners and suppliers who meet strict benchmarks and best practices in areas such as hygiene and sanitisation, safe distancing and emergency management will... » read more
SINGAPORE- An ice cream museum and another thrill ride in Clarke Quay are some of the new attractions Singaporeans can expect from this year, as Singapore seeks to enhance its attractiveness to prepare its hard-hit tourism sector for recovery. Sentosa will also welcome its own attraction next year, the SkyHelix Sentosa, an open-air rotating gondola... » read more