WITH Paraguay removing its visa requirements for Singaporeans, Singapore now has a visa-free score of 159, making it the most powerful passport worldwide according to the Passport Index. The index, developed by global advisory for residence and citizenship solutions, Arton Capital, ranks passports by the cross-border access they bring, assigning a “visa-free score” according to […]
Read MoreSINGAPORE (AFP) – Singapore, one of the most expensive places in the world to buy a vehicle, has announced it will freeze the number of private cars on its roads from next year but vowed to expand public transport. The growth cap for all passenger cars and motorcycles will be cut from 0.25 percent a […]
Read MoreSPENDING on travel and tourism in Singapore over the past decade has grown at an average rate of 7.3 per cent to double to US$12.4 billion in 2016 – and the figure is poised to rally further in the next 10 years if the government succeeds in getting visitors to part with their money. The […]
Read MoreSINGAPORE (Xinhua) – Singapore’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.4 per cent in September, unchanged from the previous month, said Ministry of Trade and Industry and Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) in a joint release yesterday. The unchanged inflation was mainly due to the offset effect of higher services inflation and lower private road transport […]
Read MoreSINGAPORE’S tourism has doubled in the past 10 years to US$12.4 billion in 2016 and supports 164,000 jobs, according to latest release by the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC). According to its new study – which covers 65 cities, 21 of which are in the Asia-Pacific region – Chinese cities are at the forefront […]
Read MoreSINGAPORE: Singapore, one of the world’s most expensive places to own a vehicle, will not allow any growth in its car population from February, citing the small city-state’s land scarcity and billions of dollars in planned public transport investments. The Land Transport Authority (LTA) said it was cutting the permissible vehicle growth rate in the […]
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