ASEAN foreign ministers declared “significant progress” in negotiations on a long-awaited Code of Conduct (COC) for the South China Sea at their 59th Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Manila on Friday, 25 July, expressing collective hope that talks could be concluded…
What Has Happened The United States began imposing a 12.5 per cent tariff on a range of Singapore exports from Friday, 24 July, following the conclusion of a Section 301 investigation by the US Trade Representative (USTR) into 60 trading…
The question sounds almost implausible at first: could a malicious actor rent cloud computing capacity, run a particularly aggressive GPU workload, and cause a physical blackout affecting tens of thousands of people? According to researchers at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou,…
A resignation, a retail retreat, and the quiet machinery of Singapore’s political order — all unfolding within the span of a single Monday. When Acting Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs Faishal Ibrahim stepped down from politics on 20 July, citing a…
A Convergence of Pressures Markets are not merely nervous. They are navigating three simultaneous stress tests — an oil shock, a bond market repricing, and an earnings season that will either justify or demolish the AI valuation premium that has…
Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower announced on July 19 that outsourced workers covered under the Progressive Wage Model will see their minimum annual leave entitlement rise from seven days to ten days, implemented progressively from 2029. The change covers five PWM…
Singapore’s land constraints are real. So is the cost of ignoring them. When the Housing and Development Board announced last week that Sunset Way — and with it, a significant portion of Maju Forest — would be developed for residential…
Singapore’s permanent residency status carries extraordinary value — enough, it appears, that some are willing to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to obtain it through fraud. The conviction of Wang Jue, a 43-year-old Singapore citizen sentenced to ten weeks’…
The Structural Shift Arriving in January 2027 When the Johor Bahru-Singapore Rapid Transit System Link opens in January 2027, it will do more than shorten a commute. It will structurally reconfigure consumer spending flows between two cities already deeply entangled…
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…
