Singapore’s air quality has turned a corner, at least for now. By Sunday night, the 24-hour Pollutant Standards Index (PSI) reading had returned to the moderate band across all five regions of the island — a meaningful, if cautious, improvement…
Singapore and the United Arab Emirates are not merely expanding a trade relationship. They are building the architecture of a strategic partnership designed to outlast the turbulence reshaping the global order. The central thesis here is straightforward: the announcement of…
What exactly has the haze disrupted, and on what scale? Indonesia’s seasonal forest fires have done more than cloud the skies. Between August 11 and October 19, haze from these fires disrupted a total of 2,604 domestic flights, according to…
On a Monday morning at Woodlands Checkpoint, flanked by the machinery of border governance and a minister for sustainability, Senior Minister K Shanmugam delivered what amounted to a declaration of sustained institutional intent. The setting was mundane by design —…
When the haze descended on Singapore with enough force to push air quality into the very unhealthy range, the road construction crews did not stop. Food delivery riders continued to wait in traffic. The city kept moving, even as the…
A City Breathing Carefully The air over Singapore has carried the acrid signature of burning peatland for nearly two weeks. On Friday, October 16, the government convened its first formal press conference on the deteriorating situation — a signal, in…
A Record High for 2024 Singapore’s air quality deteriorated sharply on Friday, October 16, with the 24-hour Pollutant Standards Index (PSI) in the central region climbing to 229 at 3pm — the highest reading recorded anywhere on the island this…
What is Singapore actually changing about its mental health system? The scale of the shift is significant. The Institute of Mental Health (IMH) will be expanded and redeveloped at its current Buangkok site by 2040, while three regional hospitals —…
At five o’clock on a Friday afternoon, the air over central Singapore carried the acrid signature of distant burning. The 24-hour Pollutant Standards Index climbed to 192 in the central region — the highest reading recorded during this year’s haze…
Warning: This article contains references to suicide. A coroner’s inquiry that opened in Singapore on Thursday has laid bare the final weeks of a 44-year-old food business owner whose life unravelled under the combined weight of clinical depression, a suicide…
