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Southeast Asia's notorious taxi market is undergoing a shakeout as Uber and homegrown mobile booking applications gain popularity in a region.

• 13 октября 2014, 14:46

Kazakhstani tennis player Zarina Diyas has been voted for the WTA Rising Stars invitational tournament in Singapore.

• 09 октября 2014, 16:11

Kazakhstan’s Secretary of State Adilbek Dzhaksybekov has received letters of credence from ambassadors of 11 countries.

• 08 октября 2014, 12:16

Air pollution in Singapore rose to unhealthy levels, blanketing the city-state's skyline with clouds of smog.

• 15 сентября 2014, 14:15

Australian actress Nicole Kidman is in shock after the sudden death of her father in Singapore.

• 13 сентября 2014, 13:43

Kazakhstan has offered Singapore to have a visa free regime between the countries.

• 31 августа 2014, 01:18

Singapore announced new measures to strengthen cyber security to prevent a recurrence of attacks on government websites.

• 26 августа 2014, 15:02

Pirates have attacked a Malaysian tanker and stolen the gas oil cargo before releasing it in the latest attack in Southeast Asian waters, officials said.

• 16 июля 2014, 14:45

Sales of flat panel televisions across Southeast Asia rose sharply in May as demand soared in the football-crazy region ahead of the World Cup, a report said.

• 10 июля 2014, 13:42

Google has taken down a blog that listed ways to harass Singapore's Filipino population, drawing praise from Internet users appalled by growing racial tensions in the city-state.

• 20 июня 2014, 14:17

E-commerce giant Alibaba said Thursday it will pay $192 million for a 50 percent stake in China's top football club, in a frenzy of deal-making before a multi-billion dollar share offer in the United States.

• 05 июня 2014, 17:41

Singapore has postponed a highly anticipated football match against arch-rivals Malaysia over concerns that its state-of-the-art new sports complex is not ready to host the fixture.

• 27 мая 2014, 00:27

A Singapore Airlines plane skidded off the runway on touching down during heavy rain at Myanmar's Yangon International Airport, but no injuries were reported, the carrier said.

• 22 мая 2014, 12:32

Singaporeans are defying a ban on electronic cigarettes despite stiff fines for distributors and smugglers, health authorities said.

• 26 апреля 2014, 10:51

Singaporean fans of Hello Kitty raged on the web Thursday after their frantic attempts to buy limited-edition toys from the McDonald's website failed when overwhelmed servers crashed, in the latest frenzy over the Japanese cat to hit the city-state.

• 25 апреля 2014, 10:29

Armed pirates boarded a Singapore-managed oil tanker in the Strait of Malacca, kidnapping three Indonesian crew and stealing some of the vessel's shipment of diesel fuel, the International Maritime Bureau said.

• 23 апреля 2014, 11:06

Brunei has postponed its implementation of tough Islamic criminal punishments that were due to begin Tuesday and have drawn condemnation from the UN's human rights office and rare criticism at home.

• 22 апреля 2014, 18:42

A passenger bus plunged into a ravine after leaving a Malaysian island resort, killing a British man and injuring 40 others, mostly foreign tourists, police said.

• 21 апреля 2014, 14:16

Singapore authorities said Thursday they had intercepted about one tonne of ivory worth $1.6 million in a shipping container from Africa marked as carrying coffee berries.

• 04 апреля 2014, 10:19

Oil prices rose in Asia Monday on increased geopolitical tensions as the United States hinted at fresh sanctions against Moscow after Crimea voted in a referendum to break away from Ukraine and join Russia.

• 18 марта 2014, 09:49