Image: Category: NewsBusinessSingaporePublication Date: Friday, July 1, 2016 - 14:00Keywords: singapore companiesExternal URL: Firms to get 250 per cent tax deduction if staff help at charitiesSend to mobile app: Byline: Lee Xin En Source:  ...
Chief of Defence Force Perry Lim, who leads the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF), is being promoted to the top rank of Lieutenant-General today.He assumed his current post last August. He joined the SAF in December 1990 and was awarded...
A bank is pioneering a scheme that lets its customers top up their Cepas cards for travel using their credit cards and smartphones.From today, United Overseas Bank (UOB) will offer cashless top-ups via contactless payment options such as Visa...
Public transport operator Go-Ahead Singapore announced that it will increase starting basic salary for its bus captains to $1,950 starting from Friday (July 1).This is up from the $1,865 that was earlier revealed in the firm's employment package in...
It was not a happy Ramadan last year for Madam Mashitah Abdullah, who had to face a neverending stream of questions from people about the misfortune that befell her son, Aafaa Zuhayr Muhammad Al-Khair.Aafaa, 2, was badly hurt in...
It was 6pm on a Saturday, and Tanjong Pagar Town Council cleaners Howlader Sentu and Nurul Islam Mannan Miah were off duty.They received an alert from the town council that a resident had lost some jewellery and were told...
SINGAPORE - A 104-year-old church building along Victoria Street which once served as the headquarters of the Portuguese Mission in Singapore will be gazetted for conservation by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA).The three-storey Parochial House of St Joseph's Church,...
SINGAPORE - In a first for full-time national servicemen, pre-enlistees entering national service next year will be able to express their interest in what vocations they will like to serve in.They will be given a range of vocations to...
SINGAPORE - Electricity tariffs will increase by an average of 9.2 per cent or 1.59 cents per kWh for the period of July 1 to September 30, SP Services said in a press statement on Thursday (June 30).For households,...
SINGAPORE - A nationwide electric car-sharing programme is set to become part of Singapore's sharing economy when it launches here in the middle of 2017.BlueSG is the first large-scale car sharing programme of its kind that will allow users...