What happened? A Singaporean woman met a man on Tinder in early 2021. He told her he was a wealthy pilot from Qatar. She believed him, fell for him, and eventually found herself providing sexual services in Dubai to raise…
Two stations. Four kilometres. And, apparently, a formidable set of engineering problems that have pushed passenger services on the Johor Bahru-Singapore Rapid Transit System Link to February 2027. RTS Operations (RTSO) CEO Marzuki Ariffin addressed the project’s technical demands in…
There is a number that stops you: 23.5 per cent. That is the share of Singapore enterprises that had adopted artificial intelligence by 2025, up from 14.7 per cent just twelve months earlier. Nearly one in four businesses, where barely…
A Ruling That Validates the Harm Without Remedying It A US federal judge has dismissed an antitrust lawsuit against Google brought by major publishers, concluding that while the economic damage to content creators is real and acknowledged, it falls outside…
David Robinson spent his time at OpenAI writing the safety reports that accompanied each major model launch — documents intended to demonstrate that the company was taking seriously the risks embedded in its own technology. He has now left, and…
The Johor Bahru–Singapore Rapid Transit System Link, a 4-kilometre rail corridor connecting two of Southeast Asia’s most economically intertwined cities, will not carry its first paying passengers until February 2027 at the earliest. That date, confirmed by operator RTS Operations…
A Formal Warning From The Hague The Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD) issued a formal public warning on Wednesday, alerting drivers across Europe that the digital systems embedded in modern vehicles — including microphones, cameras, GPS trackers and…
It began with a single image shared between colleagues. On August 20, a photograph began circulating that appeared to show a crocodile lurking in the waters of Pandan Reservoir, one of Singapore’s popular public recreational spaces. Singapore’s national water agency…
Singapore’s youth offending rate edged upward in 2025, reversing a period of relative stability and exposing a structural vulnerability that reaches well beyond conventional delinquency: young people are being drawn, in growing numbers, into the machinery of financial scams. The…
Hong Kong’s government has launched a benchmark-sized, four-year euro-denominated green bond in digital form, setting final price guidance at 11 basis points above mid-swaps, according to a term sheet released on Monday. The issuance represents another step in the city’s…
