Fortunately, Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong thought a full split was unlikely: “I can’t see how a full decoupling can happen at this stage.”

Indebted property developer China Vanke Co Ltd is in advanced talks to sell a controlling stake in VX Logistics to Singaporean sovereign wealth fund GIC, a person with knowledge of the matter said. The financial details of the potential transaction were not immediately known.

Citi Research analyst Brandon Lee notes that MLT’s China portfolio is stabilising, but negative rental reversion will remain.

China will be the leading source of inbound bookings to Singapore this Lunar New Year, with strong growth across all categories, according to Trip.com.

Following their son's death, a Malaysian family has been harassed by multiple groups of loan sharks claiming that the deceased had borrowed money from them. At a press conference on Jan 21, the He family recounted the events leading to the death of their second son He Wenjie (transliteration) and pleaded for loan sharks to stop hounding them.

Malaysia ’s closer ties to Singapore are part of a broader push by the former to use its chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations this year to forge stronger links with its nearest neighbours, as global trade networks become increasingly balkanised.

Chinese investors have been raising stakes here in recent years, led by geopolitics and enhancements to the China-Singapore Free Trade Agreement completed in 2023. China’s Ministry of Commerce noted that in 2018, cumulative investment from China in ...

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Chinese officials and ordinary people are hopeful but on edge as Donald Trump returns to the White House, eager to avoid a repeat of the bruising trade war that drove a wedge between the economic superpowers during his first term.

China said on Friday its population fell for the third year running in 2024, extending a downward streak after more than six decades of growth as the country faces a rapidly ageing population and persistently low birth rates.

Among individuals surveyed in six ASEAN countries, more than half (52%) prefer destinations within Southeast Asia, followed by East Asia (44%), including China, Japan, and South Korea.