Australian retailer Spotlight has announced its plans to expand its presence in Singapore and Malaysia. It just reopened its newly revamped store at Plaza Singapura, located along Singapore’s main shopping street, Orchard Road. The store occupies 2,543 sq m of...
SingHealth has announced the testing of a facial recognition system for visitors to Outram Community Hospital (OCH) and SingHealth Tower, both located in the Singapore General Hospital, for a period of 6 months. The trial, which began in early September, employs a...
American Pharmaceutical Company Merck & Co. (MSD) recently announced the opening of a new secondary packaging facility in Singapore. The facility is expected to support the production of vaccines and biologics, including the company’s cancer immunotherapy...
Vopak Singapore, a joint venture between renewable energy company Royal Vopak and the Port of Singapore Authority Corporation, announced in late October 2022 that it is looking to expand its ammonia storage infrastructure, located at its Vopak Banyan Terminal, an...
During the Singapore International Cyber Week, held in October 2022, the Singapore Government announced that it has set up an inter-agency counter-ransomware task force to better tackle ransomware, which has become a growing worry among businesses in the city-state....
In October 2022, Singapore launched the updated industry transformation map (ITM) for the retail sector, one of 23 sectorial ITMs to be refreshed. The refreshed roadmap is expected to help arm the sector with what it needs to meet the accelerated changes brought about...
Two universities in Singapore, National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University have together teamed up with Keppel Infrastructure to study the development of an offshore hybrid renewable energy system for continuous power generation. This would...
Singapore constructed Southeast Asia’s largest energy storage system on Jurong Island, which are referred to as giant batteries and can store a minimum of 200 megawatt-hour of energy. The system is actually container-like batteries that can store surplus energy from...
Singapore and Australia have already agreed upon 17 projects as part of the bilateral Green Economy Agreement (GEA), signed by the two countries on 18 October. The GEA has specified seven areas for its green economy principles and scope for cooperation: trade and...
In October 2022, at the 28th ASEAN Transport Ministers’ Meeting, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the European Union (EU) and its member states signed the Comprehensive Air Transport Agreement (CATA) in Indonesia. Talks and negotiations that...
Singapore, in late October, planned the second phase of the national R&D program on food, to address the food security challenges faced by the country. An extra USD 165 million is allocated for the program in areas such as bettering the disease resistance and...
In a bid to encourage blockchain-related innovation, the central bank of Singapore: Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) introduced stricter digital asset regulations. MAS’ Managing Director, Ravi Menon, said that despite several warnings to investors against digital...
