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Mitsui and Rohto to buy US$594m Singapore-based Chinese medicines company Eu Yan Sang
SINGAPORE, April 5 ― Japan’s Mitsui & Co said yesterday it had teamed up with Rohto Pharmaceutical Co, to buy Eu Yan Sang International in a deal valuing the Singapore-based traditional Chinese medicines firm at S$800 million (RM2.8 billion). Mitsui
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Criminal legal aid recipients barred from casinos, jackpot rooms and online gambling with Singapore Pools
SINGAPORE, April 4 — Individuals receiving government-funded criminal defence aid are no longer allowed to visit casinos and jackpot machine rooms in Singapore, or have an online gambling account with Singapore Pools. The new rule, implemented on Monday (April 1),
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Singaporeans in Taiwan recount fear, confusion amid island’s worst quake in 25 years
SINGAPORE, April 4 — Jolted awake by tremors that violently rattled his Airbnb apartment in Hualien, Taiwan yesterday (April 3) morning, a dazed Singaporean tourist, Mr Ryan Foong, decided to remain in his room as he was unsure what else
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Baltimore ship passed two inspections in 2023
SINGAPORE, March 27 — Singapore’s port authority said today that the cargo ship that slammed into a Baltimore bridge, causing it to collapse and blocking one of the busiest US commercial harbours, had passed two overseas inspections in 2023. “The
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Israeli embassy told to remove Facebook post that was an ‘astonishing attempt to rewrite history’, says Singapore’s law minister Shanmugam
SINGAPORE, March 25 — Singapore authorities told the Israeli embassy to remove a post made on its Facebook page yesterday that Minister for Law and Home Affairs K Shanmugam called an “astonishing attempt to rewrite history”. The post was “insensitive”,
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Singapore’s former transport minister Iswaran slapped with eight new charges related to alleged bribery, corruption
SINGAPORE, March 25 — Former transport minister S Iswaran was today handed eight new charges for allegedly obtaining a range of valuable items from the managing director of a company involved in construction works on Tanah Merah MRT station. Iswaran
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Indian singer-composer AR Rahman slammed after women allege mass molestation at his Chennai concert
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 13 — Hundreds of women were left traumatised after being groped at a recent concert of Indian Oscar-winning singer-composer AR Rahman. Tickets to his Marakkuma Nenjam concert at Adityaram Palace held two days in Chennai were oversold
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President-elect Tharman ‘surprised’ by margin of win, believes ‘fair number’ of non-PAP supporters voted for him
SINGAPORE — Surprised by his margin of victory in Friday’s Presidential Election, Tharman Shanmugaratnam said on Saturday that the landslide win meant he had secured votes from a “fair number” of electors who would “normally not vote in favour of
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Vietnam on financial grey list over weapons-proliferation risks
HANOI, June 24 — Vietnam was added to the watch list of the FATF international financial crime watchdog, which said the nation has nonetheless committed to proving it effectively prevents the financing of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
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Fences, grids put up at Singapore’s Zhenghua Nature Park
SINGAPORE, June 24 — Fences and structures known as cattle grids are being put up at Zhenghua Nature Park to reduce the incidence of wild boars entering public spaces, the National Parks Board (NParks) said today. This was after three
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