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Grace Leong

Senior Correspondent

Grace joined The Straits Times in 2013 after three years at The Business Times. She was part of The Sunday Times’ team that won a bronze award at the Asian Media Awards in 2021. She also received two awards, in 2012 and 2017, from the Securities Investors Association (Singapore). Grace worked in Las Vegas and Utah from 1999 to 2010, during which she covered the impacts of the Sept 11 attacks, subprime mortgage crisis and the 2008 financial crisis. She bagged multiple awards for her reporting during her time in the US.

Latest articles

Hin Leong founder O.K. Lim, who was to start prison sentence on April 1, has bail extended by a day

Hin Leong founder Lim Oon Kuin will have to surrender at the State Courts by 3pm on April 2.

Private home prices rise at slower pace as sales slump; buyers eye Middle East crisis fallout

Landed property prices fell by 1.8 per cent, reversing a 3.4 per cent increase in the fourth quarter of 2025.

Hin Leong founder O.K. Lim hospitalised 3 days before 13½-year jail sentence starts

Hin Leong founder O.K. Lim leaving the Supreme Court after the court hearing on March 4, 2026. Lim was sentenced in November 2024 for two counts of cheating and one count of abetting forgery.

Electricity retailers better prepared for crisis, but braced for impact as war raises costs

Wholesale electricity prices in Singapore have been climbing since the Middle East conflict erupted.

Failed appeal leaves penny stock crash masterminds John Soh and Quah Su-Ling with long jail terms

John Soh Chee Wen (left) and Quah Su-Ling were convicted of a record 349 successful charges in total in December, 2022.

Revised plans for Singapore’s second CBD kick-started with the release of Jurong white site

The white site (green parcel on bottom left) has a total potential yield of 186,139 sqm, comprising a minimum of 40,000 sqm of office space and about 1,200 private residential units.

Will the upcoming HDB super high-rise in Pearl’s Hill outshine Pinnacle@Duxton?

ilhdb04 - A BTO project at the base of Pearl’s Hill in Chinatown is set to be the tallest public housing development in Singapore at over 60 storeys.


CREDIT: HDB

Subsidy clawbacks could hit 20% for Singapore’s tallest public housing project at Pearl’s Hill: Analysts

The BTO project in Pearl’s Hill, next to Outram Park MRT station, will house about 1,700 two-room flexi, three- and four-room flats and 140 public rental units.

New tool to help businesses estimate Singapore land betterment charges up front

The LBC is a tax levied when planning permission is granted for development, or when land value increases due to improved use.

Frasers Property clinches The Centrepoint’s rear block in $391.9 million en bloc purchase

The Centrepoint's rear block comprises 66 retail units and 66 residential apartments.