The air turned bad again over central Singapore on Thursday evening — and this time, it had taken less than 24 hours to deteriorate. The episode that prompted renewed concern began on 4 September, when the 24-hour Pollutant Standards Index…
A System Built to Simplify The groundwork for Wednesday’s announcements was laid months earlier, in February 2025, when Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Lawrence Wong used the annual Budget statement to signal a significant restructuring of Singapore’s workforce development…
A Deal Years in the Making The announcement arrived on a Tuesday with the measured confidence of a company that had been building toward this moment for some time. Grab Holdings, the Singapore-headquartered super-app that began as a ride-hailing service…
There is a particular kind of institutional choreography that Singapore does well — the careful, sequenced rollout of transformative technology under close regulatory supervision, with workforce narratives attached to soften the disruption. Grab’s latest announcement fits that pattern almost perfectly.…
There is a particular rhythm to Abdul Hadi Awang’s public declarations. They arrive at intervals, sketch a vision of government that reserves its highest deliberative functions for Muslims, and then recede into the ambient noise of Malaysian political life —…
A Close Shave The words were clinical and deliberate: “It’s the moment that you have all been waiting for. The people I will be killing.” They appeared in a 21-page manifesto authored by a self-radicalised 14-year-old who had been planning…
Ahmad Zahid Hamidi’s address to UMNO’s 2026 general assembly on Friday was not merely a party speech — it was a declaration of political intent. The central thesis Zahid advanced before more than 3,000 party faithful in Kuala Lumpur is…
Singapore’s terrorism threat level remains elevated. That is the central finding of the Internal Security Department’s latest Singapore Terrorism Threat Assessment Report, released on 10 September. The report documents eight cases handled under the Internal Security Act (ISA) since July…
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…
