Singapore faces its highest terrorism threat level since the time of the 11 September attacks in the United States (US) in 2001 and the 2002 Bali bombings, Singapore’s defense minister said.“There are no signs to indicate that this will abate within even the next decade,” Ng Eng Hen told reporters on Friday ahead of the country’s Armed Forces Day on 1 July.
Singapore has set targets to reduce cash and cheque usage as it prepares to allow companies to use its digital payments service in a move towards a digital economy.Cheques will no longer be in use by 2025 while cash withdrawals from automatic telling machines will come down significantly, Education Minister Ong Ye Kung, who sits on the Monetary Authority of Singapore board, said in a speech Wednesday at the annual Association of Banks dinner in the city-state.
Tuesday, 12 June 2018 will be a date etched in world history when Donald Trump meets Kim Jong Un as it will mark the first meeting between a sitting United States (US) President and a Supreme Leader of North Korea. Departing from the G7 Summit, Trump called his meeting with Kim a “one-time opportunity” which “will not be wasted” on Twitter.
When Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev met in Moscow in 1988 to discuss nuclear reductions, Reagan compared it to appearing in an epic cinematic production by Cecil B. DeMille.
The White House wants North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to commit to a timetable to surrender his country’s nuclear arsenal when he meets United States (US) President Donald Trump next week in Singapore, a high-stakes summit that could last as long as two days – or just minutes.Trump has been advised not to offer Kim any concessions, as the White House seeks to put the onus on the North Koreans to make the summit a success, one US official said.
In the race to deploy driverless public transport, Singapore has built a mini town that could vault it into pole position. The 2-hectare complex, unveiled in November, has intersections, traffic lights, bus stops and pedestrian crossings, all built to the specifications that Singapore uses for its public roads.
Singapore may be small in size, but it has a lot to offer the region.As part of its agenda for its chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Singapore has envisioned the development of a smart city network spanning the region.
We often associate cryptocurrencies with the realm of the intangible, existing in the perplexing world of coding and data. This thought process will now be a thing of the past as physical bitcoin notes have been launched in Singapore. Tangem, a crypto start-up which positions itself as the developer of “the first smart banknote for digital assets,” has just introduced the pilot sale of “Tangem notes” in the island nation.
As the only country across the globe that has the label ‘Smart Nation’ attached to it, Singapore is known for widespread integration of science and technology into its economic and social fabric. From planned self-driving buses to Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), Singaporeans are generally proud to embrace the technological shift that they are now synonymous with.
Smart cities represent the future of urbanisation for the human race.With the advent of big data analytics and increasingly faster processing speeds of computers, urban life in the 21st century would be far more efficient and integrated. It’s a vision for the future that requires a fair degree of political will as much as technological knowhow to achieve. Within Southeast Asia, no other nation but Singapore possesses that will to drive such a vision.
Singapore can check one thing off its to-do-list for its chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) for the year – the successful completion of the 32nd ASEAN Summit. This curtain raiser summit has set the stage for the island republic’s aspirations for ASEAN throughout the year.
On the 28th of April 2018, which was the 4th and final day of the 32nd ASEAN Summit, Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong held a press conference that highlighted several key points from the biannual gathering.
