What is actually happening with South Korean exports? South Korea’s exports are on course to record their strongest annual growth in nearly five decades. A Reuters poll of 13 economists, released on Monday, placed the median estimate for June export…
Indian Government Clarifies Passport Is Not Proof of Citizenship, Citing 1967 Law India’s central government clarified on Thursday that an Indian passport has never constituted definitive proof of citizenship, asserting the position reflects decades of settled law — not a…
Intelligence Agencies Sound Alarm: AI Capabilities Could Outpace Defences Within Months International intelligence agencies are warning that artificial intelligence models are advancing at a pace that could overwhelm both government and private sector defences within months, raising urgent questions about…
Strait of Hormuz in Limbo: Conflicting U.S.-Iran Signals Rattle Global Oil Markets Contradictory statements from Washington and Tehran over the status of the Strait of Hormuz are deepening uncertainty around one of the world’s most critical oil transit chokepoints, with…
Taiwan Tracks Six Chinese Naval Vessels Circling Its Waters for Second Consecutive Day Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defence (MND) reported on Wednesday that six People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) vessels were detected operating around the island as of 6am local…
CNA Tops Singapore Trust and Reach Rankings in Reuters Institute’s 2026 Digital News Report Mediacorp’s CNA has been named Singapore’s most trusted and most widely used online news source, according to the Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2026, published on…
When Access Can Be Revoked Overnight A single directive from a foreign government or technology company could, without warning, switch off an AI capability that an entire economy has come to depend on. That is the central risk driving a…
India’s Fertility Decline Demands More Working Women, Not More Babies India’s fertility rate has fallen to 1.9, according to the Sample Registration System (SRS) 2024 report, triggering alarm among economists about the country’s long-term growth trajectory. The data, released last…
Nature Is Not Stable — And Financial Systems Built on That Assumption Are Already Paying the Price In 2023, severe droughts in the Amazon left giant commodity barges stranded on rivers that had effectively vanished. River transport volumes fell by…
Nvidia and LG Deepen Ties on Humanoid Robots and AI Data Centres Amid Jensen Huang’s Seoul Push Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced on 8 June an expanded partnership with South Korea’s LG Group spanning humanoid robotics, AI infrastructure and next-generation…
