Lee Hsien Loong

The brother of former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has been ordered by a court to pay S$400,000 ($296,000) to two government ministers in a defamation suit, local media reported on Friday.

Singapore swore in Lawrence Wong as the city-state's new prime minister in a ceremony broadcast live on television on Wednesday after Lee Hsien Loong stepped down following two decades in office.

As per his Instagram bio, Mr Wong is “bookworm, guitar player and dog lover”.

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Monday said he will step down on May 15 and announced that he will be succeeded by his deputy Lawrence Wong.

Jaishankar during his visit will meet the top leaders of Singapore, including Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, according to an official statement.

Thailand and the Philippines have criticised Singapore's exclusive deal with Taylor Swift and have branded the it "unfriendly".

With many Chinese-origin families considering children born in the Year of the Dragon to be "especially auspicious", Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong urged married Singaporean couples to have babies during the year.

Singapore's High Court on Tuesday ordered Lee Hsien Yang, the younger brother of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, to pay damages to two Indian-origin ministers for making defamatory allegations against them on a social media site.

Singapore's two Indian-origin cabinet ministers have sued Lee Hsien Yang, the younger brother of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, for defamation over allegations relating to their rental of two state-owned bungalows.

The scandals come as the party -- which has ruled uninterrupted for 64 years -- bounces back from its worst ever election results in 2020, when its share of the popular vote fell to a near-record low and the opposition gained more seats.

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong slashed the salary of Transport Minister S. Iswaran after the cabinet official was arrested last month in relation to a graft probe.

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has asked Indian-origin senior minister S Iswaran to go on leave as he is assisting the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) with an investigation into a case uncovered by the agency.

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's younger brother and his wife areon the run after they came under investigation for lying during judicial proceedings related to the will of their late father.

Union minister of state for electronics and information technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar said Monday that Indian IT companies had played an integral part in the digital transformation journey in the ASEAN region.

UPI Payment: In what is a first-of-its-kind collaboration with another country, India and Singapore on Tuesday linked their respective online payments systems -- Unified Payments Interface (UPI) of India and PayNow of Singapore -- for seamless cross-border transactions between the two countries.

The brother of former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has been ordered by a court to pay S$400,000 ($296,000) to two government ministers in a defamation suit, local media reported on Friday.

Singapore swore in Lawrence Wong as the city-state's new prime minister in a ceremony broadcast live on television on Wednesday after Lee Hsien Loong stepped down following two decades in office.

As per his Instagram bio, Mr Wong is “bookworm, guitar player and dog lover”.

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Monday said he will step down on May 15 and announced that he will be succeeded by his deputy Lawrence Wong.

Jaishankar during his visit will meet the top leaders of Singapore, including Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, according to an official statement.

Thailand and the Philippines have criticised Singapore's exclusive deal with Taylor Swift and have branded the it "unfriendly".

With many Chinese-origin families considering children born in the Year of the Dragon to be "especially auspicious", Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong urged married Singaporean couples to have babies during the year.

Singapore's High Court on Tuesday ordered Lee Hsien Yang, the younger brother of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, to pay damages to two Indian-origin ministers for making defamatory allegations against them on a social media site.

Singapore's two Indian-origin cabinet ministers have sued Lee Hsien Yang, the younger brother of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, for defamation over allegations relating to their rental of two state-owned bungalows.

The scandals come as the party -- which has ruled uninterrupted for 64 years -- bounces back from its worst ever election results in 2020, when its share of the popular vote fell to a near-record low and the opposition gained more seats.

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong slashed the salary of Transport Minister S. Iswaran after the cabinet official was arrested last month in relation to a graft probe.

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has asked Indian-origin senior minister S Iswaran to go on leave as he is assisting the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) with an investigation into a case uncovered by the agency.

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's younger brother and his wife areon the run after they came under investigation for lying during judicial proceedings related to the will of their late father.

Union minister of state for electronics and information technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar said Monday that Indian IT companies had played an integral part in the digital transformation journey in the ASEAN region.

UPI Payment: In what is a first-of-its-kind collaboration with another country, India and Singapore on Tuesday linked their respective online payments systems -- Unified Payments Interface (UPI) of India and PayNow of Singapore -- for seamless cross-border transactions between the two countries.