A 5,000-Rupiah Haircut in a City Where Everything Costs More Supriyanto has not raised his prices since 2008. Inside Pemuda Barbershop — a weather-beaten hut on one of Bogor’s busiest streets, its zinc roof warping, its barber chairs broken, its…
Artificial intelligence is rewriting the logic of modern warfare with a speed that few institutions anticipated. For the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF), navigating this shift is not a distant strategic exercise — it is an immediate operational imperative, one that…
Karnataka’s Welfare Audit: Congress Bets on Fiscal Credibility at Political Cost The Karnataka government has launched a sweeping reverification of beneficiaries under its flagship guarantee schemes — a move that could shore up state finances but risks fracturing the political…
CNA Tops Singapore Trust and Reach Rankings in Reuters Institute’s 2026 Digital News Report Mediacorp’s CNA has been named Singapore’s most trusted and most widely used online news source, according to the Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2026, published on…
China Warns Indonesia: $50 Billion in Nickel Investments at Risk Over Regulatory Crackdown China has issued a stark diplomatic warning to Jakarta, putting $50 billion in industrial investments on notice as Indonesia’s resource nationalism drive collides head-on with the Chinese…
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…
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…
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…
