Singapore’s air quality has turned a corner, at least for now. By Sunday night, the 24-hour Pollutant Standards Index (PSI) reading had returned to the moderate band across all five regions of the island — a meaningful, if cautious, improvement…
A Turning Point, or a Tension Point? Japan’s economy stands at what its Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama describes as an inflection point — a transition from inflation driven by external cost pressures toward a more structurally embedded, wage-led inflationary cycle.…
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto marked two years in office on October 20, with his administration pointing to rice self-sufficiency, progress on energy independence and stronger-than-expected economic growth as its headline achievements. The numbers are not without merit. Yet as he…
A Headline That Flatters China’s economy grew at 4.5 per cent in the third quarter of 2025, the National Bureau of Statistics confirmed on Monday — a figure that beat the Reuters poll consensus of 4.4 per cent and marked…
When the haze descended on Singapore with enough force to push air quality into the very unhealthy range, the road construction crews did not stop. Food delivery riders continued to wait in traffic. The city kept moving, even as the…
A City Breathing Carefully The air over Singapore has carried the acrid signature of burning peatland for nearly two weeks. On Friday, October 16, the government convened its first formal press conference on the deteriorating situation — a signal, in…
The tremors that rippled through Asian equity markets on Thursday offered a striking illustration of how fragile the financial architecture underpinning the artificial intelligence boom has become. South Korea’s KOSPI, a top-ten global index by market capitalisation, shed 20 per…
A Regional Crisis Sharpens at Singapore’s Doorstep As smoke from Indonesia’s worst forest fires in eleven years settles over the region, Singapore’s Minister for Sustainability and the Environment, Grace Fu, confirmed on Saturday that the city-state stands prepared to assist…
At five o’clock on a Friday afternoon, the air over central Singapore carried the acrid signature of distant burning. The 24-hour Pollutant Standards Index climbed to 192 in the central region — the highest reading recorded during this year’s haze…
When the Circuit Meets the Boardroom Singapore’s ability to extract disproportionate economic value from a single weekend of motorsport has never been more visible than it is this October. Hotel rooms near the Marina Bay circuit are commanding prices more…
