In April, Singapore’s Minister for Health Mr. Ong Ye Kung officially launched a new national consortium, the Consortium for Clinical Research and Innovation, Singapore (CRIS). This new consortium is expected to bring together 5 key national R&D, clinical...
Singapore’s Ministry of Transport (MOT) and the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) today entered into an agreement on Sustainable Aviation with the New Zealand Ministry of Transport and New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. According...
Japanese furniture and home furnishing brand Nitori Retail opened its first outlet in Singapore in March 2022, spanning the entire fourth floor (31,630 sq ft) of Courts Nojima The Heeren, in Orchard Road, which is the main shopping belt in the country. Established in...
It has been recently announced that Singapore’s Housing Development Board (HDB) will be installing its UrbanWater Harvesting System (UWHS) to harvest rainwater in existing estates in Yishun and Jurong. The technology will harvest rainwater for non-potable uses...
With the aim of transitioning to the use of Electric Vehicles (EV) in Singapore, the Land Transport Authority has announced its plans to accelerate the expansion of the EV charging network in public carparks. As part of its plan, the LTA announced a large-scale tender...
Singapore’s National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC), SingHealth, and American chipmaker Nvidia have just announced the co-development of a supercomputer that will speed up healthcare research using large and complex sets of patient data. The machine is scheduled...
The Singapore government has unveiled a new plan to strengthen local businesses in various sectors, with an aim to significantly grow the export value from SGD 805 billion (USD 590 billion) to at least SGD 1 trillion (USD 732 billion), and double the offshore trade...
In March 2022, German multinational software company SAP announced that it had launched SAP Labs Singapore, a digital innovation hub that is expected to help drive product leadership, foster local digital talent, and boost ecosystem and community engagement. Such a...
The Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) has announced that the Singapore Power Group (SP) plans to invest up to an additional USD 6 million to enhance the microgrid it plans to build on SIT’s future Punggol Campus. This enhancement is almost double that of its...
The Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) has announced that it plans to launch the Digital & Intelligence Defense as a fourth service by the last quarter of this year to more tightly integrate its capabilities in dealing with a spectrum of security threats, including...
The Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) will be setting up a Digital and Intelligence Service (DIS) to strengthen Singapore’s defense against threats in the digital sphere. The addition of the fourth Service will allow SAF to better train and fight as a networked, integrated...
Kalera, a leader in sustainable indoor vertical farming, has finalized phase one of the construction at the Changi Logistics Centre with the completion of the core structure for the fully automated farm. The multi-layer vertical farm will allow crops to grow...
