A furniture exporter in Sungei Kadut receives a confirmed order from a buyer in Jakarta worth S$180,000, payable 90 days after shipment, while the raw timber and hardware suppliers expect payment in 3...
A family that sold a manufacturing business for S$40 million faces a decision many successful Singapore entrepreneurs eventually confront: where to house the proceeds so they compound for the next gen...
When the Monetary Authority of Singapore transfers a portion of the government’s accumulated reserves for long-term investment, that capital does not sit in a single account. It splits across tw...
A café in Tanjong Pagar applying for Majlis Ugama Islam Singapura certification discovers the audit covers far more than its menu: cleaning chemicals, storage racks, supplier invoices, and even the se...
When Singapore unveiled its National AI Strategy 2.0 in late 2023, building on an initial strategy launched in 2019, the document set out ambitions to triple the country’s pool of AI practitione...
When the Punggol Digital District broke ground with a target of Green Mark Platinum certification across its entire campus, it signaled something beyond a single project milestone. Singapore had alrea...
A cleaner working in a Bukit Merah condominium in 2014 earned a basic wage that sat near the bottom of the labor market, with few structured paths toward a pay rise beyond tenure alone. A decade later...
Commuters boarding at Woodlands North station in 2019 became the first riders on a Thomson-East Coast Line segment that would eventually stretch across the island, connecting the northern woodlands to...
By the end of 2023, the Monetary Authority of Singapore had approved well over a thousand single family offices operating under the city-state’s tax incentive schemes, a figure that had climbed ...
When Singapore’s carbon tax rose to $25 per tonne of greenhouse gas emissions in 2024, up from the $5 rate that had applied since the tax’s introduction in 2019, companies operating oil re...
