SINGAPORE – Singapore currently has no plans to stockpile uranium – a heavy metal used in nuclear energy generation – but it is building up its capabilities to understand and assess advanced nuclear energy technologies.
SINGAPORE - Amendments to the Cybersecurity Act were tabled in Parliament on April 3 to take into account risks introduced by suppliers, outsourcing and offshoring.
SINGAPORE - Essential services operators in Singapore must declare cyber-security outages and attacks faced by suppliers, as well as require these suppliers to provide contractual assurances, as part of proposed changes to the Cybersecurity Act tabled on April 3.
SINGAPORE - Stronger action will be taken against those who enable the misuse of local SIM cards for criminal activity, and claiming ignorance will no longer be a valid defence, after the Law Enforcement and Other Matters Bill was passed on April 2.
SINGAPORE – The number of Singapore resident professionals, managers, executives and technicians (PMETs) grew by 380,000 between 2013 and 2023, or more than seven times the growth of foreigners in similar jobs.
SINGAPORE - A framework for sharing responsibility for phishing scam losses among financial institutions, telcos and consumers is set to be rolled out later in 2024, said Minister of State for Trade and Industry Alvin Tan on April 2.
SINGAPORE – Stronger action will be taken against those who enable the misuse of local SIM cards for criminal activity, and claiming ignorance will no longer be a valid defence.
SINGAPORE – A list of government services for which goods and services tax (GST) will not be charged will be published in end-April to prevent the recurrence of GST being wrongly collected for regulatory services, Second Minister for Finance Chee Hong Tat told Parliament on April 2.
SINGAPORE – The authorities currently have no plan to raise the $7,000 income cap under a scheme that provides temporary homes for families waiting for their Build-To-Order units, or the voucher amount to rent an HDB flat on the open market, said Second Minister for National Development Indranee Rajah.