
Singapore – the tiny state with military clout
RSAF F-16 C/D Fighting Falcon (7 Feb) - Singapore, one of Asia's smallest countries thinks big when it comes to defense. Between 2008 and 2012 the city-state, with a population of just 5.3 million, was the world's fifth-largest arms importer, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. The wealthy Southeast...

Singapore supercar sales tax pummels 2013 auto purchases
A driver with an antique luxury car at Singapore's Raffles Hotel, a holdout from the British colonial era. (6 Feb) - Singapore, the city-state at the tip of the Malay Peninsula that has risen in recent decades to become an important global financial center, has seen the wealth of its estimated 5.3 million people increase...

Singapore ups inspection of Indian planes
CAAS has a FOSP in place for authorising foreign carriers to operate in Singapore and for the surveillance of such operations. (6 Feb) - Following the US Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) recent decision to downgrade India to Category 2 under its IASA programme, the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) has stepped...
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