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 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…
The idea took shape long before the doors opened. Perennial Holdings, a Singapore-listed conglomerate with roughly a decade of eldercare operations in China and approximately 38,000 beds in its portfolio, had been watching Singapore’s ageing demographic curve with the kind…
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…
More than 200 members of Singapore’s legal profession gathered at Maxwell Chambers on the evening of 13 August for a closed-door dialogue hosted by the Law Society of Singapore (LawSoc), convened to address one of the most consequential governance crises…
A quiet but measurable shift is underway in how some Singaporeans access healthcare. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of patients from Singapore using MediSave at Regency Specialist Hospital in Johor Bahru has doubled — and the demographic profile of…
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…
A Singapore-registered entity called Infoassa presents a textbook illustration of how foreign intelligence recruitment operations exploit institutional legitimacy, digital anonymity, and the professional ambitions of policy specialists — and why such operations persist even after exposure. The thesis is straightforward:…
Singapore’s highest civilian decoration, the Order of Temasek (With Distinction), was conferred on National Day — August 9 — upon Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon and former Council of Presidential Advisers chairman Eddie Teo, placing both men at the head of…
