Pupils entering Kindergarten 1 and Primary 1 in Ministry of Education (MOE) schools in 2027 will start their school year on Jan 4, along with secondary school students, the ministry said on July 14.

Pupils who are in Kindergarten 2, or Primary 2 to 6, in 2027 will report to school a day later, on Jan 5. The final day of the school year for MOE kindergartens and primary and secondary schools will be Nov 19. However, schools serving as...

The Government Technology Agency or GovTech, has retrenched 93 staff and expects a total of seven to nine per cent of roles in its workforce to be affected by restructuring in the next two years.

GovTech chair Chng Kai Fong said, “This is not an AI-driven downsizing exercise. This shift began years before the current AI wave.”

The restructuring is meant to take GovTech from managing projects delivered by vendors to running products itself, said Mr Chng.

The union, which...

When the Johor Bahru-Singapore RTS Link begins passenger service in January 2027, Singaporeans are projected to spend $1.05 billion more across the Causeway – nearly 40 per cent higher than the $756 million increase in spending by JB visitors in Singapore.

The projections come from a joint study released on July 16, examining how the RTS Link could reshape consumer spending, tourism flows and business competitiveness in Singapore’s retail and food and beverage sectors.

The study projects a 51 per...

Cabinet Ministers K. Shanmugam and Tan See Leng will both be awarded $230,000 in damages after their nearly two-year-long defamation suit against news company Bloomberg.

Justice Audrey Lim found that real estate reporter Low De Wei, who wrote the article headlined “Singapore mansion deals are increasingly shrouded in secrecy”, in which the ministers were mentioned, knew certain information used was false, or had published without caring whether it was true.

The judge said Bloomberg’s conduct in removing the paywall for...

Singapore’s public accounts watchdog, the Auditor-General’s Office (AGO), flagged lapses and irregularities across government agencies in its latest audit.

Some of the issues include banned individuals allowed in casinos, issues with construction contracts for the National Cancer Centre Singapore building and HDB flats and grants allocated to ineligible applicants.

In a statement on July 15, the Ministry of Finance said the Government takes the AGO’s observations seriously and has taken steps to address them.