A Landmark Reckoning for the Platform Meta entered federal court in Oakland, California this week to face one of the most consequential legal challenges in its history — a multi-state trial examining whether the company deliberately engineered addictive features, misled…
In 1846, two men sat down to commercialise a technology that most of Britain had barely heard of. William Fothergill Cooke, an engineer, and John Lewis Ricardo, a businessman, founded the Electric Telegraph Company to bring electric telegraph communication to…
A Five-Year Affair Reaches Its Conclusion The Law Society of Singapore’s disciplinary tribunal struck Workers’ Party (WP) chief Pritam Singh off the legal rolls on Thursday, 13 August, bringing what analysts describe as the likely final chapter of a political…
More than 200 members of Singapore’s legal profession gathered at Maxwell Chambers on the evening of 13 August for a closed-door dialogue hosted by the Law Society of Singapore (LawSoc), convened to address one of the most consequential governance crises…
Walk into any HDB resale viewing on a Saturday morning and you will likely find a property agent armed with a tablet, a rehearsed pitch, and a commission structure that the buyer may not fully understand. For most Singaporeans, that…
A University-Wide Shift Begins at Orientation Before the semester has properly begun, before lecture theatres fill and tutorial groups convene, more than 7,700 students entering the National University of Singapore this year have already been assigned their first piece of…
The Philippines is considering one of Southeast Asia’s most sweeping restrictions on minors’ access to social media. The legislative impulse is understandable. The policy logic, however, is shakier than its proponents acknowledge. Following a surge in school violence — culminating…
A Hair-Thin Thread Beneath the Abyss Somewhere off the coast of Virginia Beach, at a depth of more than five thousand metres, a bundle of glass strands no thicker than a garden hose lies on the cold abyssal plain, carrying…
A Purchase Made in Good Faith Four years ago, a Google Play user paid a not-insignificant sum for the Lord of the Rings Extended Editions — three films, purchased outright, stored in a digital library they reasonably believed was theirs…
What is Orchid Sake Brewery, and why does it matter? Inside an industrial building in Jurong — one shared, without ceremony, with seafood suppliers — Singapore’s first and only sake brewery occupies a small, climate-controlled space that punches well above…
