ASEAN foreign ministers declared “significant progress” in negotiations on a long-awaited Code of Conduct (COC) for the South China Sea at their 59th Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Manila on Friday, 25 July, expressing collective hope that talks could be concluded…
Hundreds of millions of people ask AI chatbots health questions every week. That figure, drawn from OpenAI’s own internal records, is not a projection or an estimate — it is the documented reality of how a significant portion of the…
In 2020, Khatija Aslam walked out of a job interview convinced she had performed well. She had been headhunted, she had relevant experience, and she had been candid from the outset about returning from maternity leave with two children under…
A resignation, a retail retreat, and the quiet machinery of Singapore’s political order — all unfolding within the span of a single Monday. When Acting Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs Faishal Ibrahim stepped down from politics on 20 July, citing a…
A Convergence of Pressures Markets are not merely nervous. They are navigating three simultaneous stress tests — an oil shock, a bond market repricing, and an earnings season that will either justify or demolish the AI valuation premium that has…
In the underground stations of Chengdu’s metro system, sections of platform have been cordoned off — not for construction, not for safety drills, but for commuters to lie down and breathe. The photographs circulating on Xiaohongshu tell a quiet story:…
The numbers are striking. Singapore’s non-oil domestic exports climbed 20.7 per cent year on year in June 2025, and behind that headline figure lies a story that is both impressive and structurally narrow — one where a single sector is…
Singapore’s permanent residency status carries extraordinary value — enough, it appears, that some are willing to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to obtain it through fraud. The conviction of Wang Jue, a 43-year-old Singapore citizen sentenced to ten weeks’…
The Structural Shift Arriving in January 2027 When the Johor Bahru-Singapore Rapid Transit System Link opens in January 2027, it will do more than shorten a commute. It will structurally reconfigure consumer spending flows between two cities already deeply entangled…
Picture the scene: a Singapore office tower, mid-afternoon, the equatorial sun pressing down at 33°C outside, and inside, a colleague reaching under her desk for a cardigan. The air-conditioning has been cranked to somewhere near arctic. It is a small,…
