A man has been charged with theft after allegedly stealing more than $23,000 in cash from three fellow passengers while on a budget flight from Vietnam to Singapore. The man was named in court charge sheets as Zhang Xiuqiang, a 52-year-old Chinese national who had been on board a flight operated by Scoot, the budget […]
Bomb disposal experts in Singapore successfully disposed of a 100-kilogram World War II aerial bomb on Sept. 26, the police said, after evacuating more than 4,000 people living nearby. Video footage shows the bomb being detonated at a construction site, with a loud boom. It is believed to be one of the largest wartime explosives […]
NATO officials and European Defence Ministers attended the Shangri-La Dialogue—Asia’s premier defense summit—in Singapore from June 2 to June 4, where they met with military officials from the Asia-Pacific region with a focus on the Russian-Ukraine war during their talks. The summit was attended by the chair of the NATO Military Committee, Adm. Rob Bauer, […]
On the first day of the Shangri-La Dialogue Asia security summit in Singapore, defense ministers from the United States, Britain, Canada, and other countries deliver remarks on June 3. Schedule 8:30 a.m.–8:35 a.m. local time (8:30 p.m.–8:35 p.m. ET, June 2) Opening of the summit by Dr. John Chipman, director-general and chief executive of the […]
LONDON—Enfamil maker Reckitt on Wednesday afternoon flew 65 tonnes of baby formula to Chicago from its plant in Singapore, aiming to end a months-long shortage in the United States by late summer, a senior executive said. Similac maker Abbott Laboratories in February recalled dozens of types of baby formula, taking the country’s biggest industry player […]
COLOMBO/SINGAPORE—Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa submitted a letter of resignation on Thursday, a spokesperson for the parliamentary speaker said, hours after fleeing to Singapore following mass protests over an economic meltdown. The announcement triggered jubilation in the commercial capital Colombo where protesters massed outside the presidential secretariat, defying a city-wide curfew. Crowds set off firecrackers, shouted […]
China’s wealthy are turning to Singapore to park their assets. Setting up family offices there has become one option for affluent Chinese, who are looking to move money out of the country. It requires at least 5 million dollars in assets—but provides a safe haven for those that can manage it.
At the White House Tuesday, President Joe Biden hosted Singapore’s prime minister. Biden assured him that the crisis in Europe won’t distract his administration’s focus on the Indo-Pacific region—an area where a genocide in Burma, also known as Myanmaar, continues and where China is working to expand its influence.
President Joe Biden hosted Singapore’s prime minister at the White House. We’ll unpack their plans on Russia, the supply chain, and maintaining peace in the Indo-Pacific—an area that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is working to destabilize with military and economic coercion. An American architect’s mother was arrested in China for upholding her belief. And […]
Britain’s 3-billion-pound new aircraft carrier made a stop in Singapore Monday as its commander affirms an Asia “tilt” to military operations. The warship is part of a permanent UK naval presence in the Asia-Pacific region in efforts to counter China’s growing militarization.
Singapore on Friday hit its record daily number of COVID-19 infections since the start of the pandemic, despite vaccinating the majority of it population. The Southeast Asian city-state recorded a new high of 2,909 COVID-19 cases on Friday, the Ministry of Health said in a statement on Saturday but noted that more than 98 percent of […]
Vice President Kamala Harris called out Beijing for undermining international rules-based order in the South China Sea on Aug. 24 in a speech on U.S. forign policy in the Indo-Pacific region. She delivered the speech in Singapore, the first stop of her Southeast Asia visit that will also include a trip to Vietnam. Her visit […]
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris arrived in Singapore on Aug. 22, as part of her Southeast Asia trip that will also take her to Vietnam. Her trip, which was announced last month, now has a new urgency following the Taliban’s seizure of Afghanistan. Harris arrived on Sunday morning and was greeted by Singapore’s Foreign Minister […]
BEIJING/SINGAPORE—Congestion off China’s top two container ports Shanghai and Ningbo is worsening following the shutdown of a container terminal in Ningbo where a COVID-19 case was detected this week. Tighter restrictions to fight China’s latest coronavirus outbreak are starting to hit more parts of the economy. The highly transmissible Delta variant has been detected in […]
SINGAPORE—Singapore has temporarily halted the use of two influenza vaccines as a precaution after some people who received them in South Korea died, becoming among the first countries to publicly announce a halt of the vaccines’ usage. South Korea reported that 48 have died as of Saturday after getting flu shots, but said it would […]
Singapore’s biggest bank DBS Group Holdings asked 300 staff to leave its head office in the financial district on Feb. 12 and work from home as a precautionary measure after an employee tested positive for coronavirus.
