The resignation of a single 27-year-old researcher rarely moves markets or rewrites policy. But when Jacob Coxon walked away from Anthropic this week, he did something more unsettling: he confirmed, from the inside, what critics have long argued from without.…
A two-month coordinated operation between the Singapore Police Force and five major banks disrupted more than 400 scam attempts and prevented over S$46 million in potential losses, the SPF announced on Tuesday. The operation, which ran from July 1 to…
A Calculated Disruption to Northeast Asian Security Architecture The thesis is straightforward, even if its implications are not: Donald Trump’s decision to scale back joint military exercises with South Korea, paired with his public praise of Kim Jong Un and…
A Transparency Tool Emerges From the Surveillance Backlash An independent editorial project called Have I Been Flocked? has launched a publicly accessible website that allows drivers to search whether their vehicle’s licence plate number appears in audit logs released from…
A Party at a Crossroads The Democratic Action Party (DAP) entered its August 2025 congress carrying the weight of three consecutive electoral setbacks and a membership restless enough to demand an extraordinary internal reckoning. The question before its delegates was…
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto used his second State of the Nation address to declare measurable progress on food security, energy independence and rural economic development — while analysts cautioned that several of his headline targets remain structurally difficult to meet.…
A Constitution Forty Years Out of Date South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has publicly endorsed a fundamental restructuring of the country’s executive framework — one that would replace the current single five-year presidential term with a renewable four-year model,…
The Court’s Decision The Court of Three Judges ruled on Thursday, 13 August, to strike Workers’ Party chief Pritam Singh off the legal rolls. The decision followed disciplinary proceedings initiated by the Law Society of Singapore against Singh, who had…
A Historic First Half, Driven by One Force Singapore’s non-oil domestic exports posted their strongest first-half performance since 2010, growing 18.6 per cent in the first six months of 2026. The headline figure for Q2 alone — a 27.4 per…
Malaysia has long functioned as a transit country for Rohingya Muslims fleeing systematic persecution in Myanmar. As of February 2026, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) had registered 126,000 Rohingya in Malaysia, out of a total refugee and asylum-seeker…
