The alarm had already sounded. On the morning of May 23, 2024, sensors installed at Choa Chu Kang Waterworks were registering hydrogen sulphide concentrations beyond safe thresholds — and still, workers descended into the enclosed passage beneath a water treatment…
A Historic Reversal in Global Opinion For roughly two decades, Pew Research Center’s tracking of global attitudes consistently placed the United States ahead of China in international favourability. That long-standing pattern has now broken. In its latest survey, conducted between…
Barisan Nasional has swept Johor. The result reshapes the internal geometry of Malaysia’s federal unity government and raises urgent questions about Pakatan Harapan’s electoral viability. The Result in Brief BN captured 48 of 56 seats in the Johor state assembly…
South Korean memory chip maker SK Hynix priced its American depositary share offering at $149.00 per ADS on Friday, raising $26.5 billion in one of the largest stock market debuts in history, as the company moves to capitalise on surging…
Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party is preparing proposals to strengthen enforcement of shareholder disclosure rules targeting activist investors, including a significant bolstering of the country’s securities watchdog, a senior LDP lawmaker disclosed to Reuters on Tuesday in Tokyo. A Market Transformed…
Two warehouse operators at Keppel Distripark learned a costly lesson in June: market share does not determine liability under Singapore’s competition law. The High Court’s June 30 judgment reinstating the Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore’s (CCS) original ruling against…
On a Monday morning in Washington, President Donald Trump stood before cameras to announce the launch of a new federal programme — tax-deferred investment accounts for every American child under the age of 18. The initiative, branded as Trump Accounts,…
Norway’s return to the World Cup stage after a 28-year absence has produced more than a feel-good story — it has delivered a genuine structural upset, one that exposes the shifting balance of power in global football. The thesis is…
A Summit With Weight New Delhi and Tokyo have moved well beyond diplomatic pleasantries. At the 16th annual India-Japan Summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Sanae Takaichi signed off on a dense architecture of bilateral commitments spanning…
What happened, exactly? Ronald Koeman resigned as head coach of the Netherlands national team on the morning after their elimination from the 2026 FIFA World Cup by Morocco in the Round of 32. The defeat came via penalty shootout. Crysencio…
