A Calculated Disruption to Northeast Asian Security Architecture The thesis is straightforward, even if its implications are not: Donald Trump’s decision to scale back joint military exercises with South Korea, paired with his public praise of Kim Jong Un and…
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…
A Constitution Forty Years Out of Date South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has publicly endorsed a fundamental restructuring of the country’s executive framework — one that would replace the current single five-year presidential term with a renewable four-year model,…
Lawyer and opposition figure Lim Tean is back in Singapore custody — not because he surrendered, but because Malaysia handed him over. The 61-year-old was arrested by the Royal Malaysia Police (RMP) in Johor Bahru on August 6, five days…
Malaysia has long functioned as a transit country for Rohingya Muslims fleeing systematic persecution in Myanmar. As of February 2026, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) had registered 126,000 Rohingya in Malaysia, out of a total refugee and asylum-seeker…
A Chinese-flagged research vessel was recently observed loitering directly above the Pacific Light Cable Network — an 8,000-mile fiber-optic system linking Taiwan, the Philippines, and the United States — prompting Taiwan’s Coast Guard to intervene and drawing scrutiny from maritime…
A 23-year-old construction worker died on Monday morning after a formwork structure collapsed from the fifth storey of a building under construction at Jurong Port’s Integrated Construction and Prefabrication Hub along Jurong Port Road. The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF)…
PMI Climbs to 53.1 in July, Marking Eight Consecutive Months of Expansion South Korea’s manufacturing sector gathered momentum in July, with the latest purchasing managers’ index data pointing to a broad-based acceleration driven by a sharp upturn in external demand.…
What is self-care readiness, and why does it matter now? The World Health Organization defines self-care as the ability of individuals, families and communities to promote health, prevent disease and manage illness — with or without direct professional support. In…
A South Korean appeals court ordered SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won on Friday to pay 944 billion won (US$644 million) to his former wife Roh Soh-yeong, reducing a landmark divorce settlement that had previously been valued at close to US$1…
