Private-sector analysts have shaved their growth forecast for Singapore for 2022, with the sharper-than-expected rise in inflation and slower economic activity in China among the downside risks for the Southeast Asian nation's economy, according a quarterly survey released by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).
The year-on-year inflation rate in Laos jumped to 6.25 percent in January, the highest figure recorded since January 2020, according to the Lao Statistics Bureau.
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced on October 1 that it will launch a data and information-sharing platform, named Cosmic, to prevent money laundering, terrorism funding and proliferation financing.
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the Bank of France (BdF) on July 8 announced the successful completion of a wholesale cross-border payment and settlement experiment using central bank digital currency (CBDC).
Despite the latest round of tighter COVID-19 restrictions, Singapore’s economy will grow by 6.5 percent this year, higher than the Government’s forecast of 4-6 percent, according to the latest survey released by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).
Singapore's economy will grow by 5.8 percent this year, higher than the 5.5 percent expansion predicted earlier, a quarterly survey by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has found.
President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee Tran Thanh Man paid a pre-Christmas visit to the Vinh Diocese in the central province of Nghe An on December 13.
Singapore's economy will grow by 5.5 percent next year, putting an end to the nation's worst recession ever, according to a survey of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).
Singapore’s financial sector created 22,000 jobs between 2015 and 2019, and of these, three out of the four jobs went to locals, said a top official from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) on August 12.
The Singapore economy is expected to grow 0.7 percent this year, up from 0.6 percent in the previous survey in September, according to the latest quarterly poll of professional forecasters by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) released December 11.
Singapore has fined Swiss banking giant UBS 8 million USD after investigations showed its advisors deceived clients about prices for bonds and other financial products.
Proposals to improve ASEAN’s rail network and connectivity to meet international standards will be discussed at the 35th ASEAN Summit scheduled for early November.
Singapore on October 14 decided to ease monetary policy for the first time in more than three years as the national economy has narrowly avoided recession in the third quarter of 2019.
Singapore's economy grew only 1.6 percent in the fourth quarter of 2018 compared to the previous quarter, much lower than economists’ forecast of 3.2 percent.
The People’s Committee of the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak held a gathering to extend Christmas greetings to local religious dignitaries on December 13.
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) on December 12 announced the results of its recent survey that Singapore’s economy will grow only 2.6 percent in 2019 due to the negative impacts of protectionism and a trade war between the US and China, the world’s first and second largest economies.
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) on October 12 decided to tighten its monetary policy for the second time this year, forecasting the economy to expand steadily and core inflation to rise.
Singapore has decided to tighten its monetary policy for the first time in six years as part of efforts to cope with risks of global trade tension, local authorities announced on April 13.