Singapore

West Tampa Cigar Company Expands Its Reach In Asia With Distribution In Malaysia and Singapore

West Tampa Cigar Company is a young cigar company but with decades of experience behind the founders Rick Rodriguez and Gus Martinez, and their director of global sales and marketing,...

Published March 2023

Singapore Market get 15% Tobacco Tax Increase

Yesterday the Singaporean government gave the tobacco industry and the tobacco users in Singapore a valentine’s day present in the form of a 15% tax hike. Effective immediately the tobacco...

Published February 2023

Boveda is now available in Singapore

Boveda is now available in Singapore. For many years, cigar enthusiasts in Singapore had to order their Boveda 2-way humidification packs online via eBay, Amazon, or other online retailers. But...

Published August 2021

Singapore gets cigar knives

Singapore gets cigar knives. The famous Les Fines Lames cigar knives will enter the Singapore market soon. The French accessory manufacturer found a distributor in Cigarist. It will be the...

Published April 2021

Villa Zamorano Cigar Can is coming to Asia

Villa Zamorano Cigar Can is coming to Asia. At the beginning of this year, Maya Selva Cigars brought a Villa Zamorano sampler to the market. And not just a sampler,...

Published November 2020

Daniel Marshall reveals more details of the XXXVIII

Daniel Marshall reveals more details of the XXXVIII. Some information about the limited edition Daniel Marshall by Carlos Fuente XXXVIII Anniversary Cigar was published before. But Daniel Marshall is now...

Published September 2020

Plain packaging in Singapore starting tomorrow

Plain packaging in Singapore starting tomorrow. Cigar smokers in Singapore will see plain packaged cigars when they visit their favorite tobacconists tomorrow. From tomorrow, all tobacco products, including pipe tobacco...

Published June 2020

PCC introduces Romeo y Julieta Club Kings

PCC introduces Romeo y Julieta Club Kings. The Habanos distributor for the Asia Pacific region released the new Habanos Línea Retro Romeo y Julieta Club Kings last week in Hong...

Published April 2020

TFWA Asia Pacific canceled

TFWA Asia Pacific canceled. The Asia Pacific leg of the annual duty-free trade show TFWA is canceled. Each year in May, exhibitors, and visitors from all over the world come...

Published March 2020

Asia Pacifico Punch 8-9-8 released

Asia Pacifico Punch 8-9-8 released. Pacific Cigar Company, the Habanos distributor for South East Asia and the Pacific has released the regional edition last week. And even though it was...

Published October 2019

Private Blind Smoke in Singapore

Private Blind Smoke in Singapore. Cigar events are prohibited in Singapore. There are only a handful of tobacconists in the city-state with 6 million inhabitants. Tobacco taxes are high, with...

Published September 2019

DFS leaving Singapore Changi Airport

DFS leaving Singapore Changi Airport liquor and tobacco retail. The DFS group, who runs duty-free shops at airports all over the world, is leaving Singapore Changi Airport on June 2020....

Published August 2019

Singapore is getting smoke cabins

Singapore is getting smoke cabins. The anti-smoke laws in Singapore are strict. And they are becoming stricter every year. Plain packaging is announced for 2020. And the legal smoking age...

Published May 2019

Singapore is introducing plain packaging

Singapore is the latest country to adopt plain packaging for all tobacco products, including cigars. The Ministry of Health announced that yesterday in a statement. All packaging has to be...

Published November 2018