Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat

SINGAPORE (Feb 18): As more Singaporeans enter their senior years, healthcare needs to grow, according to finance minister Heng Swee Keat in his Budget 2019 speech.

SINGAPORE (Feb 18): To support industry transformation, Budget 2019 will continue to support deep partnerships among companies within Singapore and across the world.

(Jan 23): Singapore’s finance minister said next month’s budget will focus on infrastructure spending, health care for an aging population, and helping businesses transition to a digital economy.

(Feb 22): Singapore’s government may have given the central bank a green light to charge ahead with monetary policy tightening this year.

SINGAPORE (Feb 20): Singapore's move on Monday to raise stamp duty on expensive home purchases is likely to dampen the recent wave of redevelopment sales in the city-state's recovering property market, analysts said.

(Feb 20): Singapore’s budget on Monday was all about boosting government revenue through higher taxes in order to pay for rising spending needs.

SINGAPORE (Feb 19): In the latest Budget 2018, Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat said that the government will be raising the top marginal buyer's stamp duty (BSD) rates for residential properties to 4% from 3%, and applied on the value of residential p

SINGAPORE (Feb 19): Families are encouraged to live near each other in the latest Budget 2018.

SINGAPORE (Feb 9): Singapore unveiled a set of strategies that reinforce its long-standing commitment to economic openness, as the trade-dependent nation seeks to drive growth in the next decade after a “dark shift in mood away from globalisation”.

SINGAPORE (Dec 12): Yahoo has revealed the top search trends, happenings and events that Singapore’s Internet users were captivated by in its 2016 Year in Review (YIR).