Singapore

ASEAN Tech 4 min A Quarter of Singapore's Small Firms Now Use AI. Most Workers Who Want Training Have Not Had It IMDA's annual report puts the digital economy at 19.3% of GDP. Workers say employers not sending them is the m... DA Daniel Koh 8 Oct Science 6 min Thunder covers a kilometre in under three seconds in Singapore air Dividing the seconds between a lightning flash and its thunder by three gives kilometres, but in Singapore's a... KE Kenji Tanaka 8 Oct Health & Wellness 6 min A bathroom scale's rounding can shift a sweat-rate test by a tenth of a litre an hour Sweat rate is body weight before exercise minus weight after, plus fluid drunk, minus urine, divided by the ho... AM Amelia Wong 8 Oct Science 6 min NParks allows about twice the time Naismith's rule gives on Singapore trails Naismith's 1892 rule allows an hour for every three miles plus an hour for every 2,000 feet of climb, and the... KE Kenji Tanaka 7 Oct Statistics 6 min Generation charts disagree on a third of post-war birth years Pew, McCrindle, the US Census Bureau and Indonesia's statistics office give different generation labels, or no... NA Nadia Rahim 7 Oct Finance 6 min IFRS 16 puts leased equipment on a lessee's balance sheet Under IFRS 16 and its Singapore and Malaysian equivalents, a lessee records most equipment leases as an asset... SA Sarah Chew 7 Oct ASEAN Tech 4 min Singapore Will Not Demand Early Access to Frontier AI Models, but Signals Tougher Rules for Risky Uses A written reply to Parliament says a rigid requirement could backfire. Essential services may face independent... SA Sarah Chew 7 Oct ASEAN Tech 3 min Singapore Will Offer Hereditary Breast Cancer Gene Testing From December The health minister also set out an AI tool for family doctors next year and a planned law on genetic data in... SA Sarah Chew 3 Oct ASEAN Tech 4 min Singapore's Crypto Activity Grew 55% as Its Region Shrank, and Trading Firms Drove It Chainalysis puts Singapore at $284 billion in the year to June, with institutional platforms up 94%. The Phili... SA Sarah Chew 3 Oct Finance 6 min Singapore's Category A and B COE premiums nearly converged in 2026 Singapore's Category A and B COE premiums finished a median S$2,750 apart over the bidding exercises from Janu... DA Daniel Koh 3 Oct ASEAN Tech 4 min West Java Stopped a Singapore Firm's AI Data Centre a Week After It Broke Ground BDx began building a 640 MW campus by the Jatiluhur reservoir without its environmental assessment or building... DA Daniel Koh 2 Oct Home & Living 5 min Singlish and Manglish words in the Oxford English Dictionary Which Singapore and Malaysian English words the OED has recorded and when: 21 Singapore entries in 2016 and a... AM Amelia Wong 1 Oct Home & Living 7 min Public holidays 2027 and the best days to take leave in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong The 2027 public holidays in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong, the longest breaks a few days of leave can buy... AM Amelia Wong 30 Sep Health & Wellness 4 min How many weeks you have left, by Singapore and Malaysian life tables A Singapore resident aged 65 can expect about 1,127 more weeks on the 2025 life tables, 141 more than the figu... PR Priya Nair 30 Sep Chinese Culture 7 min Fan Tai Sui 2027 and why the lists of signs disagree Four of five counting schemes name the same four animals for 犯太岁 in the 2027 Goat year: the Goat, Ox, Dog a... EV Eva Chin 30 Sep Privacy & Data 6 min Electronic signatures in Singapore and Malaysia, and the documents the law still excludes In Singapore a typed, drawn or pasted signature can meet a legal signature requirement if the method identifie... PR Priya Nair 30 Sep Home & Living 5 min How Singapore postcodes work, from the sector to the block number The first two digits of a Singapore postcode are the postal sector, which maps to one of 28 districts; for an... AM Amelia Wong 30 Sep ASEAN Tech 4 min Singapore's Newest Chip Fab Opened in Record Time. Volume Production Starts in 2027. VSMC, owned by Vanguard and NXP, opened its Tampines plant after 22 months of construction. It is in trial pro... SA Sarah Chew 30 Sep Science 6 min Why stopping distance charts disagree at the same speed At 90 km/h, Singapore's driving handbook says 95 metres, Britain's table gives 73 at a slightly higher speed,... NA Nadia Rahim 29 Sep Home & Living 6 min Choosing an English name from your Chinese name, by sound or meaning Research describes three ways people come by an English name: one that sounds like their Chinese name, one cho... AM Amelia Wong 27 Sep Home & Living 8 min What colours mean in Chinese culture, and which meanings have a source Red means luck, and at a Singapore funeral it also means protection. But the oldest Chinese text on colour nam... AM Amelia Wong 27 Sep AI & ML 7 min What Chinese AI video generators cost, and whether you can pay from Singapore You can sign up for most Chinese AI video generators with just an email, and none of their open-weight licence... PR Priya Nair 27 Sep ASEAN Tech 5 min Singapore's Second and Third Mobile Operators Confirm Talks StarHub and Keppel told the exchange on 23 September that they are discussing M1, while stating there is no ce... SA Sarah Chew 26 Sep Home & Living 11 min How Chinese generation names work, and how to find your family's poem A generation poem belongs to a branch, not a surname, and its character is usually the first of the given name... AM Amelia Wong 25 Sep