Kimberly Lim
Asia Reporter at South China Morning Post
🇸🇬 Asia Reporter at @SCMPNews. Previously at @TODAYonline and @TheNewPaper.
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1 week ago |
scmp.com | Kimberly Lim
Trade war has prompted governments to reassert greater control over resources ‘in case help doesn’t arrive on time’, Lawrence Wong saysPublished: 9:10pm, 16 Apr 2025Washington’s delay of its so-called reciprocal tariffs is “little comfort” for Singapore, with “great uncertainty for businesses everywhere” already caused by the looming levies, the city state’s Prime Minister Lawrence Wong has warned.
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1 week ago |
scmp.com | Jean Iau |Kimberly Lim
Singapore’s new task force on economic resilience to help businesses and workers convened for the first time on Wednesday amid growing global uncertainty over US tariffs. With a baseline 10 per cent levy slapped on the city state by US President Donald Trump, Singapore could expect challenges from indirect effects of the tariffs as a small and open economy where trade volume was three times its gross domestic product, said Trade and Industry Minister Gan Kim Yong, who leads the task force.
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2 weeks ago |
scmp.com | Kimberly Lim
Singapore’s top officials, including the prime minister have taken a former nominated member of parliament to task for saying on social media he would sponsor flying members of an activist group to Gaza “only if they never come back”. In a Facebook post on Thursday, the city state’s leader Lawrence Wong called the remarks of ex-NMP Calvin Cheng “insensitive and unacceptable”. Cheng had directed his sarcasm at pro-Palestinian activists disrupting various meet-the-people sessions.
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2 weeks ago |
scmp.com | Jean Iau |Kimberly Lim
Across much of Southeast Asia, political parties rely on charisma or dynastic clout to field candidates. In Singapore, however, it is the resignation of senior civil servants and military brass that often sets the stage for entry into politics – especially amid the beating of electoral drums. The discussion around such high-ranking figures vacating their posts in an election year usually involves when and where they will be fielded by the ruling People’s Action Party (PAP).
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2 weeks ago |
scmp.com | Kimberly Lim
Singapore’s prime minister in a strongly worded speech on Tuesday criticised the American tariff imposed on the city state by highlighting the unique trade ties binding both sides and arguing that the latest economic salvos by US President Donald Trump were “not actions one does to a friend”.
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