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The Big Read: Generous SkillsFuture carrots for Singaporeans to get serious about lifelong learning, but will they bite?
SINGAPORE — Whenever her air-conditioning unit broke down, Dr Chua Yen Ping used to wonder what needed to be fixed when the repair man could solve her woes in just minutes. So the 48-year-old ...
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GST to go up to 9%, hike expected to kick in between 2021 and 2025
SINGAPORE — The Goods and Services Tax (GST) will be raised from 7 to 9 per cent some time between 2021 and 2025, Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat announced on Monday (Feb 19) in his Budget speech.
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Budget 2024: S$3.6b deficit incurred in 2023 fiscal year despite higher-than-expected revenues, 'balanced fiscal position' expected this year
Singapore incurred a fiscal deficit of S$3.6 billion for the 2023 financial year Apart from a "better-than-expected" revenue collection, the Government had spent more than predicted Health ...
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Ex-company director charged with 195 more counts over loan scam now involving over S$16m
SINGAPORE — A businessman was on Thursday (Feb 18) charged with another 195 counts of cheating and dishonesty in relation to a multi-million loan programme involving more than S$16 million ...
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Budget 2024 cheat sheet: What you need to know
SINGAPORE — In a global environment that has “darkened dramatically”, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Lawrence Wong announced on Friday (Feb 16) that the Government will spend ...
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Budget 2019: Returning home from holiday? You may have to pay more GST, buy less duty-free liquor
Mr Heng also announced that from April 1, travellers will be allowed to buy only two litres of duty-free liquor products, down from the current three litres. Currently, travellers have three ...
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Explainer: Almost every country has some form of GST, so what makes S’pore’s unique?
Around the world, 170 countries and territories have implemented some form of goods and services tax (GST) Singapore's GST is among the lowest in the world It is also perhaps the only country that ...
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RSIS survey of 'thought leaders' finds Singapore has highest level of social cohesion among Asean member states
SINGAPORE — Singapore has the highest level of social cohesion compared to other countries from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), followed by Thailand and the Philippines, a ...
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Formal apology, up to S$30,000 compensation to affected workers on the cards for companies that practise workplace discrimination
The Tripartite Committee on Workplace Fairness recommended legislation to help workers facing workplace discrimination in its interim report published on Feb 13 Under the recommended laws ...
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Police recover S$2 million linked to OCBC phishing scam, 121 local bank accounts frozen
The police have frozen 121 bank accounts and recovered about S$2 million lost in the wake of the OCBC phishing scam Another S$2.2 million of victims’ funds have been traced to 89 overseas bank ...
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‘So sudden, just before CNY’: Family grieves construction firm boss who died after 4.7m fall at worksite off Dunearn Rd
A director of a construction firm died on Feb 10 while overseeing alteration works at a house He had fallen through a floor opening and landed on a staircase about 4.7m below. MOM said this is the ...
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St Margaret’s School celebrates 175th anniversary
SINGAPORE — St Margaret’s School, the oldest girls’ school in Singapore, celebrated its 175th anniversary on Friday (Feb 10) with the reopening of its heritage gallery and to complete a ...