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Singapore to host World Chess Championship for the first time

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SINGAPORE: Singapore beat India’s New Delhi and Chennai to win the rights to host the World Chess Championship for the first time. The 2024 tournament will take place between Nov 20 and Dec 15, pitting world champion, China’s 31-year-old grandmaster Ding Liren, against India’s 18-year-old grandmaster Dommaraju Gukesh. Four possible venues are being considered for the … Read more

‘No active ongoing negotiations with ABBA Voyage’, says STB on concert named in Iswaran corruption charge

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SINGAPORE: The Singapore Tourism Board (STB) said on Friday (Jan 19) that there were “no active ongoing negotiations with ABBA Voyage”, a virtual concert experience by Swedish pop group ABBA that was named in a corruption charge faced by former Transport Minister S Iswaran. In response to queries from CNA about the status of the … Read more