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singapore More students in Singapore juggle studying and working to support their families
Asiaone
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July 7, 2025
SINGAPORE — Throughout her three years in polytechnic, 21-year-old Amillie Chan spent every evening after class serving customers and preparing food at Mexican-themed fast food chain Guzman y Gomez. Chan, who graduated in May from Nanyang...
Little red dot, big bold ideas: 60 Singapore innovations shaping our future
Asiaone
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July 12, 2025
When it comes to embracing new tech, our Little Red Dot isn't just keeping up with the future — we're zooming ahead. Case in point: Punggol's set to roll out self-driving buses later this year, just one of many home-grown innovations shaping the...
Fraud.net Expands Global Reach Across the Middle East and APAC
GlobalFinTechSeries
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July 21, 2025
Expanded regional support strengthens Fraud.net’s client infrastructure. Fraud.net, a leading provider of digital risk management solutions, announces the expansion of its service availability to Singapore and the United Arab Emirates (UAE),...
FedEx and QuikBot to transform last-mile deliveries in Singapore
Parcel and Postal Technology International
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July 11, 2025
FedEx has announced a new collaboration with autonomous final-mile delivery platform-as-a-service company QuikBot Technologies to introduce autonomous delivery robots at selected commercial buildings in Singapore. This is FedEx’s first deployment...
singapore From Turf City to West Coast: Construction begins on 6 Cross Island Line MRT stations
Asiaone
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July 7, 2025
Construction works has begun on six MRT stations under the second phase of the Cross Island Line (CRL), with completion targeted by 2032. Six underground stations will be built over a distance of 15km, including two interchanges at the current...
Construction starts on Cross Island Line Phase 2; 6 MRT stations in S’pore’s west ready by 2032
The Straits Times
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July 7, 2025
SINGAPORE - Construction on six new MRT stations that make up phase two of the upcoming Cross Island Line (CRL) has officially begun, with tunnelling work that will go underneath Singapore’s largest nature reserve having started in May. The works...
Singapore retail sales flatline in May
Inside Retail Asia
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July 7, 2025
Singapore retail sales – excluding motor vehicles – were flat in May amid mixed performance across the retail trade sector. The flat growth followed a 0.8 per cent increase in April and 0.7 per cent uplift in March, according to the Department of...
ChemOne secures US$350 million insurance cover from ICIEC for Pengerang Energy Complex
Hydrocarbon Engineering
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July 11, 2025
Singapore-based petrochemicals, green energy, and natural resources conglomerate, ChemOne Group, has announced a significant milestone in the financing of the Pengerang Energy Complex (PEC) in Malaysia. The Islamic Corp. for the Insurance of...
Singapore launches 3 initiatives to help businesses protect data and deploy AI responsibly
Human Resources Online
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The new Global AI Assurance Sandbox, PET adoption guide, and Singapore Standard for Data Protection build on ongoing efforts to strike a balance — creating room for innovation while ensuring guardrails are in place so the public can use these...
MACC probing Singapore tycoon linked to Sabah mining scandal
The Malaysian Star
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July 2, 2025
KOTA KINABALU: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has launched an investigation into a Singaporean businessman named in a viral article on social media, who is alleged to be the financier behind a Sabah mining corruption scandal...
KSH Infra to invest over ₹550 crore in 60-acre logistics park in Tamil Nadu
ETRealty.com
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July 12, 2025
Representative ImageWarehousing and logistic parks developer KSH Infra is planning to invest more than Rs 550 crore to build its second industrial and logistics (I&L) park in Tamil Nadu, boosting its total investment in the state to more than Rs...
Exploring finance opportunities in Singapore
Innovation in Textiles
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In response to mounting global regulations and the push for a circular economy, CEMATEX – the European Committee of Textile Machinery Manufacturers – is launching the ITMA Sustainability Forum: Accelerating the Green Transition on October 30th at...
Construction begins on 6 Cross Island Line Phase 2 stations; targeted for 2032 completion
Channel News Asia
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July 7, 2025
SINGAPORE: Construction work for the six stations of Phase 2 of the Cross Island Line (CRL) has started and is targeted for completion by 2032, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) said on Monday (Jul 7). Of the six underground stations, two will be...
Singapore’s 240,000 millionaires spur spending on luxury brands
The Business Times Singapore
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July 7, 2025
[SINGAPORE] Luxury spending is defying a global slump in wealthy Singapore, a beacon for high-end retailers grappling with sluggish demand in major markets including China and the US. Luxury sales in the South-east Asian city-state are expected to...
Singapore Industrial Output Growth Moderates In May
RTTNews
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June 26, 2025
Singapore's industrial production expanded at the slowest pace in three months in May due to the notable slowdown in electronics output growth, the Economic Development Board reported Thursday. Industrial production logged an annual increase of...
Bridging Strategy, Governance and Global Structures: Abdallah Baassiri on the UAE's Rise in the Global Wealth Arena
Hubbis
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Abdallah Baassiri, Director at PwC and Co-Lead of the firm’s Family Office Advisory services in the Middle East, brought a governance-led and institutionally strategic viewpoint to the opening panel discussion titled “The UAE as a Leading Wealth...
SuMi Trust targets ‘rapidly growing Asian region’ with new Singapore operations
Investment Monitor
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July 11, 2025
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Asset Management (SuMi Trust) has established a new subsidiary and office in Singapore. Per SuMi Trust, the new location is intended to take advantage of “Singapore’s exceptional business environment and strategic location”...
Clearside Biomedical Launches Strategic Review to Advance Suprachoroidal Space Delivery Platform
Ophthalmology Breaking News
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July 21, 2025
Clearside Biomedical has announced the initiation of a formal strategic review to explore multiple potential pathways that could enhance shareholder value and further the development of its proprietary suprachoroidal space (SCS®) delivery...
Southeast Asia gets its first hybrid quantum AI testbed in Singapore
iTnews Asia
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July 11, 2025
BDx Data Centres has partnered with Anyon Technologies to deploy Southeast Asia’s first hybrid quantum computing system. It is at its SIN1 data centre in Paya Lebar, Singapore. The initiative establishes a regional AI Testbed, enabling startups,...
singapore Regular training to be mandatory for adult educators under new SkillsFuture guidelines
Asiaone
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July 7, 2025
Adult educators will have to continually upgrade and clock practice hours in order to remain registered as educators for SkillsFuture-supported courses, said Minister for Education Desmond Lee on July 7. Speaking at the SkillsFuture Festival...