Singapore news headlines

The 56-metre vessel will be assessed for damage, Singapore authorities said.

A superyacht owned by mining magnate Clive Palmer has run aground after colliding with a reef.

A West Australian man has reportedly been charged after a bomb threat forced a passenger plane bound for Perth to return to Singapore under fighter jet escort.

It now costs $170,000 in Singapore simply for the paperwork needed to buy a car. Here is a look at the costliest countries for vehicle owners.

The exploits of soldiers and sailors who sailed from Australia to strike deep behind enemy lines 80 years ago are being commemorated today.

Singapore hanged a woman convicted of attempting to traffic an ounce of heroin, the first execution of a female prisoner in nearly two decades.

The company behind the rankings says the latest trends offer a warning to countries such as Australia.

The world's best airlines for 2023 have been unveiled at the Paris Air Show. Asian and Middle-Eastern carriers dominated the top five, with Qantas narrowly making it into the top 20.

An Air New Zealand customer says his Thailand holiday was cut short after the airline wrongly said one of his flights had been cancelled.

Australia is a sought after country in the global property market, with millions of people travelling across the continent every year. Now, new data has revealed exactly where non-Australian homeowners are who have property down under.

To some, it's an important means of social justice and holding powerful figures to account. But to others, it's often "misused and misdirected" and has become a form of mob rule.

Singapore has executed a man accused of coordinating a cannabis delivery, despite pleas for clemency from his family and protests from activists that he was convicted on weak evidence.

Housing affordability has become a major issue for Australians, but countries across the globe have also been faced with it. This is how some of them have responded.

Monkeys with human-like hands fall are more likely to fall for a simple magic trick than primates without opposable thumbs.

The city state is proving a perfect breeding ground for the mosquito-borne disease.

Passengers on a Qantas plane travelling from Singapore to London have spent the night in Athens, Greece after their flight was diverted.

Qantas passengers will spend the night in Azerbaijan after their flight was diverted due to a fault in the cockpit.

Australian travellers to Singapore no longer have to queue for manual immigration clearance.

It's no secret that cost of living pressures have stung Aussies at the hip pocket this year, but overseas, many nations have also found themselves in a similar crisis.

Five Melbourne students have been arrested in Singapore, accused of shoplifting from Victoria's Secret and Crocs shoes stores.

The airline has had to fork out for 100 hotel rooms after a cancelled flight misery hundreds of kilometres from home.

The agency earlier this month announced an investigation into the massive cyber attack in which hackers stole data from almost 10 million customers.

Optus is owned by Singaporean telecommunications giant Singtel, which is majority owned by a government investment fund.

Some of the top countries for Australians travelling overseas are also among the most dangerous countries when it comes to cybersecurity.

Hackers targeted the Singapore hotel that Defence Minister Richard Marles and senior officials were staying in.

Singapore will not allow same-sex marriages but has announced it will decriminalise sex between men.

More surveillance is needed of a new virus detected in dozens of people in eastern China.

Rajapaksa landed in Singapore on a flight from Maldives after fleeing his country in the wake of anti-government protests.

China's defence minister accused the United States of trying to "hijack" the support of countries in the Asia-Pacific region to turn them against Beijing.

Experts are warning that it's a grim figure for Singapore, whose tropical climate is a natural breeding ground for the Aedes mosquitoes that carry the virus, and for the rest of the world

A psychologist assessed his IQ to be 69. Malaysia's Prime Minister and British billionaire Richard Branson have decried the proceedings.

In 2019, Andrew Gosling launched a bottle from the second floor of a block of units, which hit 73-year-old Naziari Sunee on the head and his wife on the arm as they were about to eat dinner.

British-born Mehraab Nazir, 49, and his nine-year-old son were killed when a shelf of rock fell on his family on a path near Wentworth Falls on Monday.

A Singapore court has rejected a final appeal by a man sentenced to death for drug trafficking, following a campaign by his lawyers who said the trial violated international laws as the man has intellectual disabilities.

An Australian man pleaded guilty on Friday to hurling a wine bottle from his apartment at a group of Muslims having a dinner party that struck and killed a Singaporean man.

The return to pre-COVID operations at the airport has come one week before Australia's international border is set to fully reopen.

Eighty years ago Australia suffered a catastrophic military defeat when 15,000 of its soldiers were taken captive by Japan.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says he doesn't want to "undercut" suppliers and Health Minister Greg Hunt argues free tests would cause demand to spiral out of control.

A man attacked by otters says he feared he would be killed during the harrowing experience.

Measures used to counter the Delta variant should remain the foundation for fighting the coronavirus pandemic, even in the face of the new Omicron version of the virus, World Health Organisation officials say.

When Singapore embarked upon its strategy of living with COVID-19 the wealthy city-state saw a spike in its rate of infections.

After a lethargic start, Australia has rocketed up the vaccine rankings.

Fully vaccinated eligible visa holders can come to Australia without needing to apply for a travel exemption from December 1.

The Singapore government will no longer foot the medical bills for unvaccinated people who are hospitalised for COVID-19.

It will be the first time tourists, except from New Zealand, have been allowed to come to Australia since March, 2020.

Australians will be free to leave the country from Monday, after one of the strictest COVID-19 travel bans in the world.

Fully vaccinated Australians will be able to fly overseas without an exemption after 590 days of the country's international borders being closed.

Unvaccinated Victorians to be locked out of non-essential shops; Exemption-free travel for vaccinated Aussies confirmed from Nov 1; Pfizer boosters get green light

Fully vaccinated Australians will be able to enter Singapore without quarantining from November 8.

Flights will restart from Sydney to Singapore, Bangkok, Phuket, Johannesburg, Fiji ahead of schedule, and a new Indian route is starting.