Malaysia has appointed a new ASEAN special envoy to Myanmar to try and implement the regional bloc’s stalled peace plan for the war-torn country.

Southeast Asian foreign ministers are gathering for their first meeting this year under the regional bloc’s new chair, Malaysia, seeking a breakthrough over Myanmar’s drawn-out civil war and territorial disputes in the South China Sea.

SINGAPORE - Media OutReach Newswire - 23 January 2025 - American Express and Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer are marking their 25 years of partnership by introducing

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A naturalised Singaporean man was charged on Thursday with helping foreigners forge documents and falsify accounts as part of a S$3 billion ($2.24 billion) money laundering ring.

Singapore has charged Wang Junjie, the former director of a local corporate service provider linked to individuals caught up in the city-state’s record S$3 billion ($2.2 billion) money-laundering case.

The key changes include no screen time during meals for young children, limiting screen use to under one hour a day outside of school for children aged three to six, and under two hours a day for children aged seven to 12, unless it's related to schoolwork.

The event is being jointly hosted by the High Commission of India in Singapore and the Singapore Film Society from 24 January to 2 March.

SINGAPORE’S latest one-year tranche of Treasury bills (T-bills) is offering a cut-off yield of 2.95 per cent, auction results released by the Monetary Authority of Singapore indicated on Thursday (Jan 23).

SINGAPORE’S full-year inflation in 2024 came in at 2.4 per cent, close to the official forecast, and fell from elevated levels the year before, data from the Singapore Department of Statistics showed on Thursday (Jan 23).

A man went on trial in Singapore on Tuesday for raping his wife in the first case of its kind since marital immunity for rape was fully repealed in 2020. Both foreigners are protected by a gag order.

A naturalised Singaporean man was charged on Thursday with helping foreigners forge documents and falsify accounts as part of a S$3 billion ($2.24 billion) money laundering ring.

On Jan. 22, 2025, Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat spoke at the ninth St. Gallen Symposium Singapore Forum, discussing the shifting global power structure. Heng opened the panel discussion by talking about the value, power, and danger of ideas, and the need for ideas to be paired with values.