The central question in the ongoing false trading trial of Dr Goh Jin Hian is not merely whether he conspired to manipulate New Silkroutes Group’s share price, but whether a man of his standing — the son of former prime…
Singapore’s semiconductor sector has committed more than S$500 million — approximately US$390 million — to research and development over the five-year period beginning 2026, surpassing the S$400 million invested in equivalent efforts between 2020 and 2025. The figures come from…
The numbers tell a stark story. Some RM9.25 million — roughly US$2.27 million — has been raised through the Najib Razak Solidarity Fund since UMNO launched it on September 18, yet the court-imposed fine that would allow Malaysia’s jailed former…
Unhealthy Readings Spread Across Three Regions Air quality across parts of Singapore deteriorated into the unhealthy range on Sunday, 27 September, with the central, eastern, and western regions all recording elevated Pollutant Standards Index (PSI) readings at various points during…
There is something quietly telling about a state dinner where one side fills the room with its most powerful corporate names and the other sends only officials. When Chinese President Xi Jinping sat down with US President Donald Trump at…
A Structural Shift in How Singapore Manages Its Workforce Singapore is tightening the institutional architecture around human resource management. From July 1, 2028, every organisation employing more than 200 workers must have at least one HR professional certified at the…
A Structural Bet on Human Capital Singapore’s financial sector is making its most explicit institutional commitment yet to AI-era workforce transformation. More than 80,000 finance workers across 23 institutions will undergo structured artificial intelligence training by 2028 — a target…
At the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was busy promoting his government’s technology reform agenda when a reporter interrupted the moment with an uncomfortable question: why had Washington just accused Canberra of facilitating…
The alarm over frontier artificial intelligence had been building for months before it crystallised into a formal international response. Leading scientists and senior executives at major AI laboratories had begun warning, with increasing urgency, that the development of advanced AI…
A Labour Market Showing Its Fault Lines Singapore’s labour market has long been presented as a model of managed resilience — low unemployment, tight vacancy ratios, calibrated foreign workforce inflows. The Q2 2026 data, released by the Ministry of Manpower…
