HONG KONG: A long-delayed travel bubble between Hong Kong and Singapore will finally allow quarantine-free trips starting on May 26, both governments revealed on Monday. Travellers from Hong Kong will need to have been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus two weeks before their date of departure for Singapore, though this will not be required for […]
Read MoreThe Singapore-Hong Kong Air Travel Bubble (ATB) is set to launch on May 26 — barring any deterioration of the Covid-19 pandemic situation in both cities — and Singapore is open to more air travel bubbles with other regions, said Minister for Transport Ong Ye Kung today (April 26) during a doorstop interview. Moving forward, […]
Read MoreSINGAPORE – The Republic’s factory output expanded for the fifth straight month in March, data released on Monday (April 26) by the Economic Development Board (EDB) show. Manufacturing production in March increased 7.6 per cent from a year ago, though on a seasonally adjusted month-on-month basis, output decreased 1.7 per cent. Excluding biomedical manufacturing, March […]
Read MoreSINGAPORE – The Republic’s core inflation continued to rebound in March, driven by higher services inflation as well as smaller declines in the costs of retail and other goods, electricity and gas. This comes after it turned positive in February for the first time in a year. Core inflation, which excludes accommodation and private road transport costs, […]
Read MorePRICES of private residential properties across Singapore increased quarter on quarter by 3.3 per cent in Q1 2021, steeper than the 2.1 per cent growth in Q4 2020, according to final figures released by the Urban Redevelopment Authority on Friday. This is stronger than the flash estimates put out on April 1, with estimates then […]
Read More[SINGAPORE] Singapore and Hong Kong called off an announcement planned for Thursday on an air travel bubble between Asia’s two major financial hubs, according to people familiar with the matter, the second time in five months the highly anticipated arrangement appears to have run into obstacles. No reason was immediately provided on why the announcement […]
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