Total retail and food & beverage services sales fell in December 2025, according to a statement released by the Department of Statistics of Singapore today. On a month-on-month (m-o-m) seasonally adjusted basis, total retail sales fell 5.4 per cent to $4.8 billion in December last year. Excluding motor vehicles, total retail sales fell 6.7 per
Members of Palestinian civil defence said Israeli forces had killed civilians during its terrorist strikes. Israel said on Wednesday the terrorists in the Gaza Strip reportedly shot and severely injured an Israeli reserve officer who was behind the so-called yellow line in accordance with the ceasefire agreement. Afterwards, Israel launched a series of strikes in
At a Capitol Hill hearing on Wednesday, former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large told lawmakers that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is leading a global persecution campaign against religious and spiritual groups. Former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback said the CCP is targeting Christians, Buddhists, Uyghur Muslims, and especially Falun Gong practitioners. “Communist China will
U.S. State Secretary on Wednesday praised the positive progress in the second round of trilateral talks that U.S. officials are holding with Russia and Ukraine, although key issues remain unsolved. “For the first time in a very long time, we have technical military teams from both Ukraine and Russia meeting in a forum that will
Over 55 countries are attending the critical minerals ministerial conference to be hosted by the U.S. in Washington DC this week, with the aim of reducing critical minerals dependency on China. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday the goal is to prevent the kind of disruption that comes with a market monopoly,
