Singapore must get used to slower economic growth in the next 10 years as it faces tougher global competition and tightens the inflow of foreign workers, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Thursday.

Singapore has arrested a man linked to a popular sociopolitical website for conducting an exit poll ahead of the general election in May, the island's leading Sunday newspaper said.

Australia and New Zealand started the rolling global protests denouncing corporate greed but capitalist countries elsewhere in Asia were reluctant to demonstrate, with the turnout in wealthy Singapore almost zero.

Singapore on Friday cut its growth forecast for 2011 and eased monetary policy as it warned that the weakening global outlook would weigh on the island state's output.

The governments of eight nations including Singapore, Japan and the U.S. on Saturday signed an agreement which is aimed at fighting copyright and trademark theft.

Anglo-Dutch energy giant Shell said Thursday it had shut down some units at a major Singapore refinery due to a fire as emergency crews battled to extinguish the blaze.

Singapore is coming under mounting pressure to ease political restrictions after neighboring Malaysia unveiled steps to abolish tough security laws and ease media and protest regulations.

Singapore is coming under mounting pressure to ease political restrictions after neighboring Malaysia unveiled steps to abolish tough security laws and ease media and protest regulations.

Singapore's outspoken former leader Lee Kuan Yew on Monday denied calling Islam a “venomous religion” after leaked U.S. diplomatic cables set off a furor in the multiracial city-state.

Former deputy premier Tony Tan was sworn in as Singapore's new president Thursday, five days after scraping to victory in an election where his slim margin showed falling support for the ruling party.