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Business News
UK News

Reacting to the introduction of 25 percent tariffs on exports of UK steel and aluminium to the United States, William Bain, BCC Head of Trade Policy, said: “This is a difficult day for trans-Atlantic trade and plunges businesses, in both the US and UK, into a new age of uncertainty.

Business News
Singapore News

Parliament unanimously passed on March 10 a record $143.1 billion spending plan, the last Budget of the current term of government.

Finance & Economics
FinTech
Singapore News

Revolut Singapore’s chief is gearing up to expand beyond the fintech firm’s current offerings of remittances, payments and investments, as he pushes on with his mission to simplify people’s financial lives here.

Arts & Culture
F&B
Press

The highly anticipated Singapore Weekender by Kita Food Festival is set to return from 12 to 17 March 2025, bringing its most ambitious programme to date to Singapore.

UK News

Britain said on Friday it would launch an innovation hub that will work with defence firms to speed up the delivery of military technologies, in an effort to reform the sector and boost growth.

Technology
UK News

Britain's media regulator Ofcom on Monday set social media and other online platforms a March 31 deadline to submit a risk assessment around how likely users are to encounter illegal content on their sites.

Singapore News

Every bit of support to address the cost of living counts, and the Government will keep doing what is necessary to help Singaporeans for as long as needed, said Prime Minister Lawrence Wong on March 3.

Business News
Singapore News

Singapore's core inflation fell to a more than three-year low in January on the back of slower price increases across all broad consumer categories, official data showed on Monday (Feb 24).

Global News
Sustainability

Any further delay in climate action would result in a disorderly transition towards limiting global warming, Singapore’s ambassador for climate action warned on Feb 21, saying that escalating climate impacts would be catastrophic for societies.

ASEAN
Business News
Shipping
Singapore News

The Tuas mega port has cumulatively handled 10 million shipping containers, or twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), since the start of operations in September 2022, PSA Singapore said on Feb 24.