Taiwan controls more than 90% of the world’s most advanced semiconductor manufacturing — a concentration of industrial power that shapes global technology supply chains, fuels the AI boom, and keeps governments in Washington, Beijing, and Brussels awake at night. Nvidia…
A Diplomatic Signal Wrapped in Contract Law Prime Minister Lawrence Wong chose the People’s Action Party convention on Sunday to deliver what amounted to a measured but pointed warning: Singapore expects every party to a commercial gas contract to honour…
As geopolitical fragmentation reshapes the global competition for capital, talent and tourism, Singapore’s Ministry of Energy, Trade and Industry has launched a multi-year international branding campaign titled ‘When You’re Ready’ — and the urgency behind it, according to those leading…
A Turning Point, or a Tension Point? Japan’s economy stands at what its Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama describes as an inflection point — a transition from inflation driven by external cost pressures toward a more structurally embedded, wage-led inflationary cycle.…
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto marked two years in office on October 20, with his administration pointing to rice self-sufficiency, progress on energy independence and stronger-than-expected economic growth as its headline achievements. The numbers are not without merit. Yet as he…
A Platform Under Legal Siege The depositions are damning. Court documents emerging from hundreds of ongoing lawsuits against TikTok reveal that the company’s own employees repeatedly raised serious alarms about child exploitation on the platform — and were met, according…
A Headline That Flatters China’s economy grew at 4.5 per cent in the third quarter of 2025, the National Bureau of Statistics confirmed on Monday — a figure that beat the Reuters poll consensus of 4.4 per cent and marked…
Singapore’s economy has been performing well enough that the country’s tripartite wage-setting body now feels confident asking employers to do more than hold the line — it wants them to lean in. The National Wage Council (NWC) released its guidelines…
The departure gates at Changi were quiet on the morning of October 18, but the diplomatic weight of what left Singapore that day was anything but. Prime Minister Lawrence Wong boarded for Doha, embarking on his first official visit to…
Oil Importers Turn to Islamic Trade Finance as Energy Costs Bite Cash-strapped developing nations are increasingly relying on the International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) to fund petroleum imports, as Brent crude prices above US$100 a barrel and diesel costs…
