A Landmark Revision to Already-Record Salaries Singapore has announced a sweeping upward revision to its ministerial salary benchmarks, increasing Prime Minister Lawrence Wong’s annual compensation from S$2.2 million to S$3.6 million — a rise of roughly 64% that brings his…
The Regulatory Thesis Singapore’s Online Criminal Harms Act Office has issued a set of binding codes of practice that fundamentally recast the legal obligations of messaging services, social media platforms, and e-commerce operators — and the central argument embedded in…
The idea took shape long before the doors opened. Perennial Holdings, a Singapore-listed conglomerate with roughly a decade of eldercare operations in China and approximately 38,000 beds in its portfolio, had been watching Singapore’s ageing demographic curve with the kind…
Every August, a familiar ritual plays out across Singapore’s middle-class households. The latest global university rankings drop, and with them comes the annual cascade of WhatsApp forwards, forum threads, and dinner-table negotiations between parents and their children about what a…
Nanyang Technological University will discontinue its artificial intelligence detection software by the end of 2027, the institution announced in an email to faculty on Thursday, August 13, declaring the tools “fundamentally unreliable” and incompatible with responsible AI integration in higher…
A Weekend That Could Reshape Malaysian Politics On the morning of his 79th birthday, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim underwent surgery for an abdominal hernia. Days later, still recovering, he confronted a political reckoning that no surgical procedure could defer. His…
A quiet but measurable shift is underway in how some Singaporeans access healthcare. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of patients from Singapore using MediSave at Regency Specialist Hospital in Johor Bahru has doubled — and the demographic profile of…
Lawyer and opposition figure Lim Tean is back in Singapore custody — not because he surrendered, but because Malaysia handed him over. The 61-year-old was arrested by the Royal Malaysia Police (RMP) in Johor Bahru on August 6, five days…
For much of early 2026, Singapore’s economic managers held a cautious line. The Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) had entered the year projecting GDP growth of just 1 per cent to 3 per cent — a range that reflected…
A Chinese-flagged research vessel was recently observed loitering directly above the Pacific Light Cable Network — an 8,000-mile fiber-optic system linking Taiwan, the Philippines, and the United States — prompting Taiwan’s Coast Guard to intervene and drawing scrutiny from maritime…
