Tag Archives: Singapore

Taylor Swift has descended on Southeast Asia, or one small part of it at least: All of her six sold-out shows are in Singapore, the region’s wealthiest nation. Many of her fans in this part of the world, which is home to more than 600 million people, are disappointed. But …

Singapore now tops the ranking of the world’s most powerful passports, unseating Japan from the top spot. Singaporeans enjoy visa-free entry to 192 destinations, more than travellers of any other country, according to the latest Henley Passport Index. The Southeast Asian country last held the top spot in 2021, before …

Singapore has executed a man for conspiring to traffic cannabis despite pleas for clemency from his family, activists and the United Nations. Singapore is home to one of the world’s toughest anti-drug laws. It argues the laws are a necessary deterrent to drug crime which is a major issue across …

The Singaporean government will decriminalise sex between men, the prime minister announced on Sunday, August 21, effectively making it legal to be homosexual in the city-state.   Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said the government would repeal Section 377A of the penal code, a colonial-era law that criminalises sex between men, adding that society was …

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore announced that the government would repeal its law criminalizing sex between men, but that same-sex marriage would remain illegal.

City state’s economy grew 4.4 percent year-on-year in the second quarter, less than official estimates. Singapore’s economy expanded less than initially estimated in the second quarter and the government downgraded its growth projections for 2022, flagging risks to the global outlook from the Ukraine war and cost pressures. Gross domestic …

Speaker Nancy Pelosi was expected to appear in Singapore on Monday as part of a closely watched tour of Asia that has stoked fears, including at the highest levels of the American government, of dangerously heightened tensions with China over the possibility that she would make a stop in Taiwan. …