A food safety incident unfolding thousands of kilometres away can reach Singapore’s wet markets and supermarket shelves faster than any regulatory response. The recent case of formalin-treated cabbages sourced from Hebei, China — where traders illegally applied the carcinogenic preservative…
The alarm over frontier artificial intelligence had been building for months before it crystallised into a formal international response. Leading scientists and senior executives at major AI laboratories had begun warning, with increasing urgency, that the development of advanced AI…
A Labour Market Showing Its Fault Lines Singapore’s labour market has long been presented as a model of managed resilience — low unemployment, tight vacancy ratios, calibrated foreign workforce inflows. The Q2 2026 data, released by the Ministry of Manpower…
The haze that has periodically choked Singapore’s skies in recent weeks reached a new intensity on Sunday, 20 September, as three of the city-state’s five regions simultaneously recorded unhealthy air quality — a convergence that underscored the worsening transboundary smoke…
The cash invoices looked routine enough — transactions processed through a registered dealership, services rendered, amounts noted. What they did not show was the GST that should have been charged, or where the money actually went. On Thursday, 17 September,…
The room held around 800 public servants, gathered at Marina Bay Sands for a leadership ceremony, when Coordinating Minister for Public Services Chan Chun Sing put to them a distinction that sounds simple but carries considerable institutional weight: the difference…
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 New Operator, Familiar Frustrations When Go-Ahead Singapore assumed control of 27 bus routes in Tampines from SBS Transit in July 2020, it inherited not just a contract but a set of commuter expectations shaped by years of established service.…
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…
