ASEAN News

Social media companies put ‘profit above principle’ on fake news, says the Minister of Singapore

SINGAPORE - When tackling fake news, social media platforms are hindered by their commercial interests, the Singapore law minister said,…

January 12, 2021

ASEAN achieves a milestone towards the reduction of regional disaster risk

The year 2020 was a difficult year for Southeast Asia, which faced several disasters caused by severe weather events, particularly…

January 10, 2021

The government of Singapore acknowledges that privacy data from COVID-19 is accessible to the police

Singapore officials have recently admitted that data can also be obtained by the police from their COVID-19 contact tracing software.…

January 7, 2021

Over 80,000 views for the first public live stream of parliamentary proceedings in Singapore

SINGAPORE: As of Tuesday night, in a sitting that spanned two days, Singapore's first public parliamentary Livestream collected more than…

January 6, 2021

GDP agreements in Singapore by 5.8 pct in 2020

On Monday morning, the Singapore Ministry of Trade and Industry reported that, based on advance projections, the country's gross domestic…

January 5, 2021

On Jan 4, Singapore will begin live streaming Parliament sessions

SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Communications and Information (MCI) said in a press release that Singapore will begin live streaming Parliament…

January 5, 2021

In a year with no travel, workers in Singapore make good use of paid leave.

SINGAPORE - In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, with leisure travel grinding to a halt, several workers…

January 2, 2021

Starting from January 1, Minimum legal age smoking raised to 21 years of age

SINGAPORE - On 1 January 2021, the minimum mandatory age for the purchase, use, possession, selling, and supply of tobacco…

December 30, 2020

Start of capacity reduction on vehicles ferrying employees

A power curb has been lifted on vehicles ferrying workers. The change to remove the 25% reduction in carrying capacity…

December 29, 2020

On Dec 30, Singapore will begin vaccinating healthcare staff

The Covid-19 vaccination exercise in Singapore will begin with healthcare staff at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) on…

December 28, 2020

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