Singapore shares open higher on Monday

$FTSE Singapore Straits Time Index(.STI.SG)$ gained 0.4 per cent or 14.74 points to 3,375.41 as at 9.01 am.

The top traded counter by volume was $Thomson Medical(A50.SG)$, which inched up as much as 4.2 per cent during early trade, up S$0.003 to S$0.075 after 8 million shares were traded as at 9.02 am.

Index stock $ThaiBev(Y92.SG)$ was the second most traded stock on Monday. The counter slipped 0.7 per cent or S$0.005 to S$0.695 after 7.7 million stocks changed hands.

Meanwhile, $胜科海事(S51.SG)$ opened flat at S$0.135 as 5.3 million shares were traded as at 9.02 am.