Holders of Singaporean passports are among the luckiest in the world. They can travel to 195 countries without a visa, wrote the South China Morning Post, more than almost any other nationality in the world, including Americans. They have fortune at home, too: The approximately 280-square-mile...
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Singapore’s prime minister of 20 years said he would step down next month to relinquish the post to his hand-picked successor, marking the end of an era while also preserving continuity in the prosperous city-state, the Wall Street Journal reported. Lee Hsien Loong, 72, has led...
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Singapore sentenced a Cambodian national to 13 months in prison Tuesday, the first defendant to plead guilty in the country’s biggest money laundering scandal, one that has damaged the Southeast Asian island-state’s reputation as a financial hub, CNBC reported. Su Wenqiang had faced 11 charges relating...
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Singapore’s transport minister resigned last week after being charged with corruption, an occurrence so unusual in the city-state that it hasn’t happened in decades, but now may damage its image of clean governance, the Financial Times reported. Iswaran is the first minister in Singapore to be...
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Singaporeans will have to pay tens of thousands of dollars to own a car, as costs in the wealthy city-state have soared amid rising inflation and a slowing economy, Reuters reported. Since 1990, Singapore has run a “certificate of entitlement” (COE) system to regulate the number...
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There’s a tacit agreement between Singapore’s rulers and the population: We the People will settle for less freedom in exchange for safety and prosperity, all overseen by a squeaky-clean government with unquestionable moral rectitude. That pact means that Singaporeans can be fined up to $1,000, jailed...
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A Singaporean man is suing a woman for more than $2 million in damages after she rebuffed his romantic advances and told him she saw him as a friend, in a case observers say underscores issues of sexism and misogyny faced by women in Singapore,...
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Singapore became the latest Asian country to repeal a colonial-era law that banned sex between men, marking another victory for the LGBTQ+ community in the region, Reuters reported. In his annual national day rally speech, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Singaporean society, especially young people...
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In the 2013 novel (and 2018 hit film) “Crazy Rich Asians,” the ingénue travels to Singapore and realizes that her boyfriend is so fabulously wealthy that their backgrounds might be too different for them to share a life together. Spoiler alert – things work out for...
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Singapore executed a Malaysian man convicted of smuggling drugs, despite a series of appeals by human rights advocates and global leaders to spare him because he suffered from a mental disability, the New York Times reported. Nagaenthran K. Dharmalingam was hung early Wednesday, a day after...
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A Malaysian man with learning disabilities lost a last-minute attempt to appeal his death sentence after Singapore’s top court rejected his request Tuesday, the Guardian reported. Nagaenthran K Dharmalingam was arrested in 2009 for attempting to smuggle about 1.5 ounces of heroin into Singapore. He said...
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