Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its cousin Machine Learning (ML) were harnessed by the Scam Analytics and Tactical Intervention System (SATIS), jointly developed by GovTech and the Home Team’s science and technology agency HTX.
Category: Singapore
“We will always stand with you”: PM Wong to Singaporeans on cost-of-living support
Explaining in an X video the reason for the GST hikes, PM Wong reiterated what he had said during his speech during the Singapore Budget 2025 discussion in parliament — global events were driving up costs in the small and open economy of Singapore even before the GST rate hike, so the tax alone did not cause a spike in the cost of living.
4,000+ cases of illegal vaping reported in Singapore in 2023 and 2024, says MoS Health
The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) of Singapore had received 4,000 to 5,000 reports of illegal vaping in the country in 2023 and 2024. These reports were sent to HSA by the Singapore Police Force. In at least one case, the parents of the child caught vaping had brought the child to the police station.
“Where is the turbo-charging?” asks PM Wong in response to Pritam Singh in Singapore Budget 2025 debate
PM Wong cited some Consumer Price Index (CPI) figures between 2022 and 2024. He illustrated that even as GST was increased by 1 percentage point each in January 2023 and January 2024, the CPI inflation in Singapore went down from 6.1 per cent in 2022 to 4.8 per cent in 2023 and 2.4 per cent in 2024.
Singapore: Bettr Coffee opens its first sit-down cafe at The Foundry
Bettr Coffee opens its first sit-down cafe at The Foundry
Artificial Intelligence brings “murder mystery” gaming experience to National Gallery Singapore from March 1
“FRAMED” interacts with players through an AI chatbot “Void Deck Cat”, providing clues to uncover hidden elements at the DBS Singapore Gallery, UOB Southeast Asia Gallery and the ArchiGallery.
Pritam Singh states “poor fiscal marksmanship”, GST hikes fanned “flames of inflation” in Singapore
Speaking in Parliament on February 26, addressing the Singapore Budget 2025 presented by Prime Minister and Finance Lawrence Wong last week, Pritam Singh criticised the Singapore Government’s decision to raise the Goods and Services Tax (GST) in 2023 and 2024, stating that these moves had fanned the “flames of inflation”. The country’s “exceedingly healthy fiscal position” made the GST hikes unnecessary, he said.
Singapore ministers file defamation suits against Bloomberg, reporter
Three other media outlets were also issued similar correction orders for carrying in part or in full the statements published in the Bloomberg piece, according to The Straits Times.
Artificial Intelligence to eliminate 4,000 jobs worldwide at DBS Bank over 3 years, even as Singapore braces for 2025 layoffs
Even as companies replace human employees with Artificial Intelligence, validating fears of “AI will take our jobs”, new jobs are being created in the field of Artificial Intelligence itself.
A BBC report on DBS said: “The bank’s outgoing chief executive Piyush Gupta also said it expected to create around 1,000 new AI-related jobs.”
Singapore Ministry of Defence announces new Chief of Army; change of guard on March 21
MG Neo has served as COA since 10 March 2022. Under his stewardship, the Singapore Army maintained a high level of operational readiness, expanded its range of capabilities, and enhanced its interoperability with government agencies.
