Trump’s Tarmac Remarks Prompt Mental Acuity Questions From Political Commentators A brief exchange between President Donald Trump and reporters on Monday night, following Game 3 of the NBA Finals, has drawn scrutiny from political analysts questioning the president’s cognitive sharpness…
Xi Jinping Visits Pyongyang to Consolidate Beijing’s Indo-Pacific Alliances Chinese President Xi Jinping has arrived in Pyongyang for a two-day state visit — his first trip to North Korea in seven years — calling for deeper “strategic coordination and cooperation”…
Singapore Orders Platforms to Block China-Linked Posts Targeting Indian Community Singapore has directed YouTube, Facebook and X to block 14 social media posts targeting the country’s Indian community, with authorities tracing the content to a China-based platform. The Ministry of…
Lai Ching-te Opens Computex With Bold AI Pitch to Global Tech Giants Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te declared his country indispensable to the global artificial intelligence supply chain on Tuesday, using the opening of Computex Taipei to court international investment and…
Real Wage Growth Hits Two-Year High as Inflation Falls Singapore workers recorded their strongest purchasing power gains in two years in 2025, with real wages rising 4 per cent — up from 3.2 per cent in 2024 — even as…
Fifty Years On: Singapore’s 1976 Communist Crackdown On 31 May 1976, Singapore’s Ministry of Home Affairs announced that communist operatives had been conducting extensive clandestine recruitment across the Republic — targeting not just the general public, but members of the…
Myanmar’s Military-Backed President Makes First India Visit Since Taking Office Myanmar President Min Aung Hlaing arrived in New Delhi on Sunday for his first official visit to India since assuming the presidency in April, meeting National Security Adviser Ajit Doval…
Hegseth Softens China Rhetoric at Shangri-La Dialogue, But Warns Against Indo-Pacific Dominance U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth struck a notably more measured tone on China at Singapore’s Shangri-La Dialogue on Saturday, walking back last year’s pointed warnings of imminent threat…
Quad Foreign Ministers Convene in New Delhi, Pledge Stronger Indo-Pacific Strategic Focus India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar hosted the Quad Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in New Delhi on Tuesday, calling for sharper strategic focus on the Indo-Pacific and warning that…
Bangladesh’s Capital Turns to Artificial Intelligence to Untangle Its Notorious Gridlock Dhaka, a megacity of over 22 million people ranked among the world’s most congested, launched its first AI-powered traffic enforcement system in April, connecting existing road cameras to software…
