{"id":41941,"date":"2026-04-05T16:07:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T08:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=41941"},"modified":"2026-04-05T16:07:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T08:07:46","slug":"iran-war-singapore-likely-to-roll-out-targeted-support-for-businesses-households-as-energy-costs-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=41941","title":{"rendered":"Iran war: Singapore likely to roll out targeted support for businesses, households as energy costs rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>The government is expected to announce measures to help businesses and households cope with rising costs when Parliament sits on Tuesday<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body-container\">\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">[SINGAPORE] As the Iran war enters its second month, raising the risk of a global energy crunch, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said last Thursday (Apr 2) that the government will <a class=\"text-verticals-btblue underline\" data-testid=\"article-annotation-link-component\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businesstimes.com.sg\/singapore\/singapore-convenes-crisis-committee-boost-energy-resilience-and-support-amid-iran-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">help cushion the impact on households and businesses.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">While he did not provide specifics, he said that existing support measures could be enhanced or brought forward to \u201cprovide earlier relief\u201d, with ministers to announce more details when Parliament sits on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">Industry watchers said that any additional measures are likely to be targeted, given the uneven impact of rising energy and logistics costs across sectors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-btg-newsletter-component\" data-section-name=\"newsletter\" data-section-label=\"decoding asia 2\" class=\"track-impression border-t border-gray-175 py-3\">\n<div>\n<p class=\"font-lucida text-xl font-medium italic leading-normal -tracking-5% text-gray-850\">Decoding Asia newsletter: your guide to navigating Asia in a new global order. <span class=\"inline border-none p-0 font-lucida text-inherit text-xl font-medium italic leading-normal !-tracking-5% text-verticals-btblue !underline outline-none\">Sign up here to get Decoding Asia newsletter.<\/span> Delivered to your inbox. Free.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesstimes.com.sg\/singapore\/iran-war-singapore-likely-roll-out-targeted-support-businesses-households-energy-costs-rise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government is expected to announce measures to help businesses and households cope with rising costs when Parliament sits on Tuesday [SINGAPORE] As the Iran&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}