Singapore - Game development school DigiPen opened a campus in Singapore Friday, its first outside the United States.

Singapore - Average investors will soon have a new index providing more information on which to base decisions regarding 700 companies on the Singapore Exchange, organizers said Thursday.

The index will be compiled by the centre for investor and corporate responsibility, one of four centres within the new Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics.

It will provide a ranking similar to credit ratings, said Associate Professor Jeremy Goh, one of the centre's co-directors.

Using publicly available information, Goh said, "We will evaluate companies on components such as disclosure and transparency, role of stakeholders, treatment of minority shareholders and the rights of such shareholders."

Singapore - Wildlife groups fear the pangolin, once common across Asia, is being systematically wiped out and could become extinct unless governments do more to stop poaching, they said in a publi

Singapore- Champion eaters from the United States and Japan will take on a Singaporean gobbler during a food festival, organizers said Wednesday.
Joey Chestnut, the 24-year-old top-rated Major League Eating competitor, is the ranking champion. He beat rival Takeru Kobayashi, 30, at an annual hotdog-consuming competition in the US, ending Kobayashi's six-year reign.
Eating competitions are rare in the city-state, where a 20-year-old man died in 1989 after choking while participating in a moon cake eating contest.
Major League Eating is a US sports franchise that oversees professional competitive eating events.

Singapore - Direct investments in the United States from Asia-Pacific companies looking to acquire or set up businesses overseas have surged, with Australia in the lead, published US Department of

Singapore - Lewd slogans and suggestive pictures used to promote matchmaking services are being axed from Singapore's newspapers and magazines, authorities said Wednesday.