Singapore, Malaysia revive push on rail link

Leaders from Singapore and Malaysia gave a fresh push to a languishing proposal to build a high-speed rail link between the city-state and Kuala…

More Indonesians becoming S'poreans

More Indonesians have become Singapore citizens in the past two years, reversing a previous decline, according to the records of Indonesia's embassy…

No bond, but recipients of new scholarship to serve the community

Instead of serving a bond with an organisation, six undergraduates will be contributing at least 30 hours of community service monthly under the…

Singapore protest exposes voter worries about immigration

Singapore’s biggest political protest since allowing these events at a downtown park in 2000 may signal growing difficulty by Prime Minister Lee…

Lee Kuan Yew discharged from hospital after mini-stroke

SMU Assistant Professor of Law and NMP Eugene Tan said, “There is still the view that Lee Kuan Yew wields tremendous influence and he is still seen…

Dollar Sibor may be dropped amid global rate-rigging probe

Singapore’s central bank and a group of lenders are considering putting an end to the city-state’s U.S. dollar-linked interbank lending rate as…

MAS mulls SIBOR future

  SMU Vice President (Business Development & External Relations) Associate Professor of Finance Annie Koh was among analysts who provided views…

Do you really understand risk?

Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics at SMU research fellow Hamish Macalister noted that very few people have a strong grasp of what…

A place in the sun for key Singaporeans?

The selection process for naming rights stemming from donations is usually very selective, said universities. A spokesman for SMU said that the…

Mind the gap year

Third-year SMU business management student Gary Yeo is currently taking a gap year to train full-time in preparation for the World Athletics…