A Gathering at a Critical Juncture In early September, roughly 800 climate advocates converged on Singapore for the Climate Reality Leadership Corps Training, an event organised by The Climate Reality Project, the nonprofit founded by former United States Vice President…
A Landmark Revision to Already-Record Salaries Singapore has announced a sweeping upward revision to its ministerial salary benchmarks, increasing Prime Minister Lawrence Wong’s annual compensation from S$2.2 million to S$3.6 million — a rise of roughly 64% that brings his…
A Project Frozen, Then Unfrozen Construction is moving again at Indonesia’s Lido Special Economic Zone — and with it, the Trump Organization’s most ambitious foothold in Asia has regained its footing after more than a year of regulatory paralysis. The…
A Transparency Tool Emerges From the Surveillance Backlash An independent editorial project called Have I Been Flocked? has launched a publicly accessible website that allows drivers to search whether their vehicle’s licence plate number appears in audit logs released from…
A Party at a Crossroads The Democratic Action Party (DAP) entered its August 2025 congress carrying the weight of three consecutive electoral setbacks and a membership restless enough to demand an extraordinary internal reckoning. The question before its delegates was…
Nanyang Technological University will discontinue its artificial intelligence detection software by the end of 2027, the institution announced in an email to faculty on Thursday, August 13, declaring the tools “fundamentally unreliable” and incompatible with responsible AI integration in higher…
A Weekend That Could Reshape Malaysian Politics On the morning of his 79th birthday, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim underwent surgery for an abdominal hernia. Days later, still recovering, he confronted a political reckoning that no surgical procedure could defer. His…
The Court’s Decision The Court of Three Judges ruled on Thursday, 13 August, to strike Workers’ Party chief Pritam Singh off the legal rolls. The decision followed disciplinary proceedings initiated by the Law Society of Singapore against Singh, who had…
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…
For much of early 2026, Singapore’s economic managers held a cautious line. The Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) had entered the year projecting GDP growth of just 1 per cent to 3 per cent — a range that reflected…
