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Scoot flight takes off hours early, leaving 35 passengers behind

Flight’s departure time was five hours earlier than planned

The Independent UK

Singaporean denies all Forex-3D charges

A Singaporean man arrested for alleged involvement in the Forex-3D online Ponzi scheme has denied all charges, while his Italian-Thai model wife faces a charge of illegally sheltering the suspect.

Bangkok Post

Singaporean suspect denied bail

The Criminal Court on Wednesday denied bail to a Singaporean held over alleged connections with the Forex-3D Ponzi scheme.

Bangkok Post

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Resorts World Cruises propels demand

Resorts World Cruises, a luxury-lifestyle cruise line with itineraries within Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand aboard the vessel Genting Dream, has announced cruises from Hong Kong on Resorts World One from March 10 with two- and three-night high-seas cruises departing every Friday, Sunday and Wednesday.

Bangkok Post

Sun Cable's solar project is in voluntary administration. Why has it happened, and what does it mean?

The company behind a visionary solar project backed by two of Australia's richest men entered voluntary administration last week. We explain what that means.

ABC News

‘Inherently speculative … slightly crazy’: Davos bigwigs snipe at crypto and call for more regulation

Senior Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam of Singapore said instead of regulating crypto it may be better to emphasize it’s unregulated so investors can make their own decisions.

Fortune

LinkedIn: Economic fears aren’t enough to stop employees jumping ship in 2023

Workers said they felt confident in their ability to find a new job, despite an uncertain economy.

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Qantas flight from Auckland lands safely in Sydney after issuing mayday call

Second distress signal in a month for airline after Singapore to London flight made emergency landing in Azerbaijan in late December

The Guardian - AU

Southeast Asia food delivery market slows in risk to Grab, GoTo

SINGAPORE: Southeast Asia’s food delivery spending grew at the slowest pace in at least four years in 2022, highlighting the challenges faced by regional internet giants Grab Holdings Ltd and GoTo Group.

Bangkok Post

Reforming Thailand: a dual challenge

Thailand needs to gain competitiveness in the global economy. However, two hindrances come to mind: old leaders and outdated laws.

Bangkok Post

Singapore expects full tourism recovery by 2024

Singapore's international arrivals beat forecasts in 2022, paving the way for its tourism sector to recover to pre-pandemic levels by 2024, its tourism authority said on Tuesday.

Reuters

Singapore expects tourist total to double

Singapore expects tourist numbers to double from last year to reach 12-14 million in 2023, helped by China’s decision to drop Covid travel restrictions, along with an increase in flight connectivity and capacity.

Bangkok Post

Somerset Pattaya puts a fresh complexion on the popular seaside city

Somerset, the family-friendly and sustainable serviced residence brand of The Ascott Limited (Ascott), leading Singapore-located international lodging owner-operator and CapitaLand’s wholly owned lodging business unit, is making a splash in the epicentre of the Pattaya action.

Bangkok Post

Imagining a new world

A few days after the dawn of the new year, I found myself on the move earlier than usual. It is not usually until the second week we hit the ground running. After all, who would fly to Singapore just for an art exhibition? But I took it on because,…

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PSH to rejig precast business via transfer

SET-listed developer Pruksa Holding Plc (PSH) will dilute its shares in the precast business through a share swap with General Engineering Plc (GEL) and will co-invest in logistics with Singaporean real estate firm Capitaland and Taiwan developer Ally Logistics Property to boost recurring income.

Evening Standard

China’s re-opening after Covid could be very bad news for global inflation

I spent last week in Hong Kong and Singapore, singing for my supper. It was just ahead of Chinese New Year — the Year of the Rabbit begins on January 22 — and, in the past, both cities would have been heaving. On this occasion, however, only Singapore was. Hong…

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Jeanne Ten’s Long Struggle for Accountability in Singapore

Jeanne Ten was presented with an ultimatum: accept a report whitewashing her professor’s academic misconduct, or be denied her master’s degree. Her decision to fight back has cost her dearly. But she has no plans to stop, and in the process, she has revealed a lack of accountability in Singapore’s…

Bangkok Post

Israel's Cognyte won tender to 'sell intercept spyware to Myanmar' before coup

SINGAPORE: Israel's Cognyte Software Ltd won a tender to sell intercept spyware to a Myanmar state-backed telecommunications firm a month before the Asian nation's February 2021 military coup, according to documents reviewed by Reuters.

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Why 'logistical cities' are crucial

What makes cities work? It is not the historic monuments or grand architecture but something far more prosaic. 360info speaks to Professor Brett Neilson from Western Sydney University.

Reuters

Family members reunite in China after 3-year COVID separation

Chu Wenhong would fly back to Shanghai and visit her parents at least once a year after she moved to Singapore in 1994.

The Conversation

The A$30 billion Sun Cable crash is a setback but doesn't spell the end of Australia's renewable energy export dreams

Sun Cable – considered to be the world’s biggest renewable energy export project – announced this week it had entered voluntary administration following “the absence of alignment” with shareholders.

AAP

Minister talks up a new dawn for Sun Cable

A collapsed renewable solar energy plan to export electricity from the NT to Singapore still has enormous potential, Energy Minister Chris Bowen says.

Bangkok Post

Twitter orders workers at Asia HQ to clear desks

SINGAPORE: Workers at Twitter Inc's Singapore office were told to empty out their desks and vacate the premises, said people familiar with the situation, as Elon Musk continues to pare expenses around the globe.

Bangkok Post

Thai star Ratchanon, China's Ding to lead Asia's amateur challenge

SINGAPORE: Some of Asia's best young golfers will get the opportunity to show the world what they can do next month, when the DP World Tour returns to Singapore.

Tribune News Service

Movie review: Grounded action keeps 'Plane' on course

The villains of the 2022 holiday season were the airlines, so it’s an apt moment for the Gerard Butler action vehicle “Plane” to take flight. The inciting incident involves a cost-cutting safety checker at Trailblazer Airlines insisting that Captain Brodie Torrance (Butler) pilot through a storm instead of around it…

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