Latest news from Singapore, in Singaporean newspapers

Sengkang-Punggol LRT line back to full service: SBS Transit
A power fault disrupted services on the entire Sengkang-Punggol LRT on Aug 12 for 10 hours.
Straits Times - 13 August 2025
From survivable to liveable: The making of a green city
The SMU City Dialogues Vienna discussed ways to make cities more sustainable as they develop.
Straits Times - 12 August 2025
ITE students’ invention to clean machine parts saves local firm 1% in annual water cost
Washer won merit award at HSBC-NYAA-ITE SMEs Sustainability Initiative.
Straits Times - 12 August 2025
SG60: Many hands behind Singapore’s success story
Here's a look at six decades of achievements from agencies, firms, institutions and SMEs working together.
Straits Times - 12 August 2025
SG60: The future of Singapore’s economy
As Singapore stands on the threshold of a new economic era, the central question is: What must we do today to thrive tomorrow?
Straits Times - 12 August 2025
SG60: Reading between the lines of the Draft Master Plan 2025
Singapore’s urban and economic planning has long been pragmatic, but the Draft Master Plan 2025 signals something new: boldness. In response to shifting global and domestic fundamentals, the plan reframes land use through emerging tools such as (…)
Straits Times - 12 August 2025
SG60: Singapore at 60 – a sustainability journey and the way forward
As a small island with no natural resources, Singapore has, since independence, always embraced sustainability. Today, in the face of the global climate crisis, Singapore has both deepened and broadened that emphasis in a way that balances (…)
Straits Times - 12 August 2025
SG60: A*Star banks on deep tech ecosystem in innovation drive
Singapore’s rise as a science and technology powerhouse owes much to a national commitment to relentless innovation.
Straits Times - 12 August 2025
SG60: Singapore’s role in South-east Asia’s AI future
As the saying goes, “data is the new currency”. This rings especially true today, as artificial intelligence (AI) is unlocking business transformation and fuelling an incredible surge in data demand across South-east Asia.
Straits Times - 12 August 2025
SG60: From AI to quantum – can Singapore lead the next era of financial innovation?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is already reshaping financial services from real-time fraud detection to precision-led customer insights. But the next leap forward will come not from AI alone, but from its convergence with quantum computing, a (…)
Straits Times - 12 August 2025
SG60: Running Singapore on innovation – Brains, bytes and billion-dollar growth engines
As at mid-2025, Singapore secured more than 40 AI centres of excellence, attracting both digital-native and industrial firms to research and develop various forms of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions here, including those related to (…)
Straits Times - 12 August 2025
Healthy, self-reliant and mentally strong: How people in S’pore would like to age, according to new study
A new survey conducted in Singapore has revealed a common blind spot: While people diligently track blood pressure and glucose, they could be neglecting other equally important health markers.
Straits Times - 12 August 2025
From quiet introvert to self-confident student: How this vulnerable, shy teen gets help to develop and discover her (…)
At this residential campus, students from lower income families get academic and personal support from volunteer mentors.
Straits Times - 12 August 2025
SG60: Designing progress, the Singapore way
There is much to celebrate with our nation’s 60th year of independence. Few countries have built so much, so deliberately, and in so little time post-independence.
Straits Times - 12 August 2025
SG60: Building a 100-year family enterprise
As Singapore celebrates its 60th birthday and passes the reins to the new generation of leaders, so are many of the Singapore businesses that were founded during our early years of nation-building.
Straits Times - 12 August 2025
SG60: How Singapore’s SMEs are shaping a sustainable future for Asean
The Singapore story is one of pragmatism, adaptability and entrepreneurial spirit, and nowhere is this better reflected than among the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that constitute more than 99 per cent of all locally registered (…)
Straits Times - 12 August 2025
SG60: The development of Singapore’s corporate and securities law over the last 6 decades
SINGAPORE’S corporate law framework has undergone remarkable transformation over the past 60 years, evolving from a colonial-era system into a globally respected, business-friendly and sophisticated legal regime.
Straits Times - 12 August 2025
SG60: Three pivotal trends – and their transformative effects on business operations
AS SINGAPORE embarks on a new decade, it confronts a period marked by increased instability in the global economic sphere.
Straits Times - 12 August 2025
SG60: Why ageing needs a new narrative in Singapore
SIXTY years ago, Singapore was a young and rapidly developing nation. Life expectancy stood at just 65 years, and only 3 per cent of the population was aged 65 or older.
Straits Times - 12 August 2025
SG60: Singapore SMEs and startups look overseas for growth
FOR Singaporean businesses, the drive to look beyond local shores has gone from an option to a necessity for long-term growth and competitiveness. With a limited domestic market and increasing global uncertainties, internationalisation is no (…)
Straits Times - 12 August 2025
SG60: From surge to stability – a timeline of Singapore’s property market cooling measures, 1995 to 2025
OVER the last three decades, the Singapore government rolled out more than 10 rounds of measures to cool the property market, each time aiming to tame rapidly rising housing prices and calm fevered buying. Various levers were pushed and pulled, (…)
Straits Times - 12 August 2025
SG60: Property valuation amid growing real estate sophistication
The SG60 Singapore real estate market is a mature one, marked by a large number of buyers and sellers, landlords and tenants, financiers, lawyers, appraisers and brokers; considerable data transparency; and a breadth of options across all real (…)
Straits Times - 12 August 2025