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New data from the World Health Organization reveals that many governments’ public funding of health care falls short of what ...

President Donald Trump announced a 90-day pause on all tariffs except for those against China, which he said would now rise ...

Singapore PM Lawrence Wong reminded U.S. President Donald Trump of World War II after he dropped the reciprocal tariffs bombshell on all of the world, including Singapore. Wong, addressing the ...

The trade war is expected to negatively affect global trade, economic growth, and business sentiment. Singapore has lowered its 2025 GDP growth forecast to 0-2% due to the anticipated impact of US ...

In a major geopolitical play, the U.S. has secured access to key Panama Canal facilities under a new security pact. The deal stops short of permanent bases but allows American troop presence near ...

The world entered a turbulent period over ... The Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) today slashed Singapore’s 2025 growth forecast to “0.0 to 2.0%,” pointing to the US-China tariff war as a ...

as the trade-dependent nation braced for the effects of sweeping US tariffs and the US-China trade war. Although US President Donald Trump imposed the baseline 10 per cent tariffs on Singapore ...

The Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) downgraded Singapore's economic growth forecast for 2025 to zero to two per cent, citing the current US-China tariff war as ... growth at 2.1 per cent ...

SINGAPORE: There is a Malay and Indonesian ... Europeans think that World War II started in September 1939; to the Americans, it was December 1941. They are wrong. The war started in July 1937 ...

Hello to all our readers, Yahoo Singapore will ... Changi was also named World’s Best Airport Hotel – again. After handling 67.7 million passengers in 2024, Changi Airport is poised to surpass ...