He joined the Progress Singapore Party, a new opposition group, and considered running for president, a ceremonial post. In 2022, the police asked to interview him and his wife, saying they had ...

Family pleads for clemency ahead of Singapore drug execution. Tangaraju Suppiah, 46, was convicted in the city-state in 2018 but his family says he did not have adequate legal counsel.

I’ve always admired the success of Singapore, and especially the success of the early leaders of Singapore,” he said. Read ...

Standing at just 1.55 metres and wearing a tudung, the 69-year-old grandmother will be remembered as a low-key and hard-working president who dug into Singapore's vast reserves during the pandemic ...

(Bloomberg) -- The former chief investment officer of Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC Pte. and chairman of multibillion-dollar investment firm Avanda Investment Management, Ng Kok Song, plans ...

THE number of single family offices (SFOs) in Singapore continued to grow last year and shot past 2,000 by the end of 2024, ... All eyes are on how much higher the incoming US president will hike ...

Despite high optimism among Indonesian officials, public suspicion persists regarding Singapore's sincerity, particularly ...

WHEN LEE KUAN YEW died in 2015, many recalled how he reacted to the idea that a monument should be raised to him. “Remember Ozymandias!” Singapore’s founding prime minister had said ...

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times ... She had earlier in her speech called her family’s love, ... Major Toh Su Sin, said it had been an honour to serve Singapore’s first female president.

Prithvirajsing Roopun, the president of Mauritius since 2019, was born in an Indian Arya Samaj Hindu family. Chandrikapersad "Chan" Santokhi has been the president of Suriname since 2020.

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has resigned his post in a letter emailed from Singapore, saying Parliament would meet on Saturday to select a new president.