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  • Wednesday, 5 November, 2025
    Insurance
    Reeves to urge insurance bosses to increase investment in London

    Chancellor due to meet representatives from Lloyd’s of London, Hiscox and Convex

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  • Tuesday, 4 November, 2025
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    Two employees resigned as company secretaries to group accused of being part of international fraud last month

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  • Monday, 3 November, 2025
    Singapore plans to turn Lee Kuan Yew’s house into national monument

    Fate of former home of city-state’s modern founder has been subject of family feuding

    Empty guard post and closed gate outside Lee Kuan Yew's Oxley Road residence, with flowering bushes and trees visible.
  • Thursday, 23 October, 2025
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    Former Citi banker jailed over role in Singapore money-laundering scandal

    Case resulted in city-state tightening regulations around family offices

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  • Thursday, 23 October, 2025
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    Singapore’s prime minister warns of ‘messy’ transition to post-American order

    Lawrence Wong says no other country can fill the vacuum left by the US

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  • Thursday, 23 October, 2025
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  • Monday, 29 September, 2025
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    Democracy activist Nathan Law denied entry to Singapore

    Hong Kong has issued a bounty for arrest of former student leader of the Umbrella Movement protest group

    Law attends a candlelight vigil outside the Chinese embassy in London on June 4 2023, to mark the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown
  • Monday, 29 September, 2025
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    Singapore and Hong Kong go for gold in precious-metal trade

    The industry is centred on London and New York. Can it move east?

    A massive warehouse with rows and rows of containers with gold bars in
  • Thursday, 25 September, 2025
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    What’s behind Singapore’s world-high property transaction costs?

    Island nation has tried to calm foreign property demand by adding fees

    Montage featuring the Singapore coat of arms, the Singapore flag, a 50 Singapore dollar note and a view of apartment blocks
  • Wednesday, 10 September, 2025
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    Singapore’s next strategic bet: green finance

    New ‘blended’ fund raises $500mn for risky clean-energy projects in the region

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  • Thursday, 4 September, 2025
    News in-depthFinancial fraud
    At Singapore’s anti-fraud convention, even the experts get scammed

    South-east Asia has become ‘ground zero’ for scams that increasingly use AI and deepfakes to target victims

    People pass by as the city skyline is reflected in a puddle leftover from earlier rain in Singapore
  • Friday, 29 August, 2025
    Sovereign wealth funds
    Could Singapore’s GIC actually be the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund?

    Playing some SWF Sudoku

  • Friday, 29 August, 2025
    Global trade
    Singapore, UAE and other small nations to launch trade partnership

    WTO members seek to boost ‘trade openness’ in era of Donald Trump’s protectionism

    Shipping containers are stacked in rows beside large green gantry cranes at the Port of Singapore.
  • Thursday, 28 August, 2025
    Singapore threatens lashes and jail for illegal vape imports

    City-state steps up crackdown on users and sellers of e-cigarettes laced with banned substances

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  • Friday, 15 August, 2025
    Fund management
    How Singapore’s wealth fund punted its way to prosperity

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  • Sunday, 10 August, 2025
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    Singapore exchange poised for revival amid shift in capital flows, CEO says

    The bourse recorded its strongest annual net profits in 25 years

    SGX signage outside the exchange’s Singapore headquarters
  • Monday, 4 August, 2025
    Singapore tycoon pleads guilty in gifts scandal involving ex-minister

    Billionaire hotelier and F1 impresario Ong Beng Seng faces up to 7 years in jail

    Ong Beng Seng leaves the court in Singapore on Monday
  • Tuesday, 29 July, 2025
    FT GlobetrotterTips from the top
    Where to eat in Singapore: top tips from Dave Pynt of Michelin-starred Burnt Ends

    The chef-owner of the celebrated Dempsey Hill restaurant recommends his favourite eateries in the city, from upscale to ultra casual

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  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    Temasek Holdings Pte Ltd
    Singapore’s Temasek sours on European companies amid US tariff threats

    Bearish outlook comes a year after state investor opened Paris office and promised to commit $19bn to the region

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  • Friday, 4 July, 2025
    Money laundering
    UBS and Citi among nine banks hit with $21.5mn penalty in Singapore money-laundering case

    Scandal involving island-wide seizures of gold bars and luxury cars rocked city-state’s wealth management sector

    A worker climbs over a railing in Singapore
  • Tuesday, 1 July, 2025
    Standard Chartered PLC
    Standard Chartered hit with $2.7bn lawsuit over 1MDB scandal

    Liquidators still trying to recoup billions of dollars siphoned from Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund and then laundered

    Standard Chartered signage in Singapore
  • Wednesday, 25 June, 2025
    Cryptocurrencies
    Singapore crypto crackdown set to spark moves to Hong Kong and Dubai

    Financial regulator says unlicensed exchanges must close by end of month

    Do Kwon sitting in Terraform Labs’ office in Seoul, South Korea, surrounded by desks, screens and office chairs, in April 2022
  • Wednesday, 18 June, 2025
    LexUK economy
    The UK has a lot to learn from speedy Singapore

    Rather than emulate the city state wholesale, policymakers should select from its tool kit

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    Buildings in Singapore
  • Friday, 13 June, 2025
    Financial & markets regulation
    UK financial regulators should copy Singapore model, say peers

    British watchdogs are too slow and risk-averse, Lords committee states

    Man jogging in front of Singapore skyscrapers
  • Monday, 26 May, 2025
    French politics
    Macron touts France as ‘reliable’ partner for south-east Asia

    French president’s visit to Vietnam, Indonesia and Singapore will portray Paris as more respectful than US or China

    Emmanuel Macron and Luong Cuong shake hands during a meeting
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