The numbers tell a story of contradictions. Singapore’s labour market expanded for a nineteenth consecutive quarter in Q2 2026, adding 10,700 jobs and keeping unemployment at a low 2 per cent — yet retrenchments climbed to their highest level since…
A New Party, A Familiar Cast Parti Wawasan Negara — known simply as Wawasan — made its electoral debut in the Negeri Sembilan state election barely two months after its formal launch, contesting four seats under the Perikatan Nasional (PN)…
Singapore’s property sector has broadly welcomed a new regulatory measure requiring agents to complete at least three transactions over three years to qualify for licence renewal, even as industry voices flag a potential loophole and call for robust safeguards around…
A research team at the University of Chicago has demonstrated that removing a small segment from a rice plant’s own genetic code — rather than inserting foreign DNA — can raise crop yields by up to 25% while simultaneously improving…
The law, in Singapore, has never been a quiet vocation. Speaking at the National University of Singapore Law Faculty’s freshmen inauguration ceremony on Sunday, Coordinating Minister for National Security and Minister for Home Affairs K Shanmugam delivered a measured but…
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…
