What exactly is happening to your data? At this moment, your phone number, home address, email, employment history, and family connections are packaged into commercial profiles and sold to the highest bidder. This is not a hypothetical future risk —…
In the underground stations of Chengdu’s metro system, sections of platform have been cordoned off — not for construction, not for safety drills, but for commuters to lie down and breathe. The photographs circulating on Xiaohongshu tell a quiet story:…
Trust, once broken, demands a hard response. That was the principle District Judge John Ng invoked on Thursday as he sentenced Wang Junjie, a 43-year-old Singaporean corporate service provider, to 32 weeks’ jail for conspiring with convicted money launderer Su…
The numbers are striking. Singapore’s non-oil domestic exports climbed 20.7 per cent year on year in June 2025, and behind that headline figure lies a story that is both impressive and structurally narrow — one where a single sector is…
The alarm had already sounded. On the morning of May 23, 2024, sensors installed at Choa Chu Kang Waterworks were registering hydrogen sulphide concentrations beyond safe thresholds — and still, workers descended into the enclosed passage beneath a water treatment…
There is a number quietly buried in Netflix’s second-quarter shareholder letter that deserves more than a passing glance. Generative AI workflows, the company disclosed, have now been used in roughly 300 titles in 2026 alone — with the heaviest concentration…
A Historic Reversal in Global Opinion For roughly two decades, Pew Research Center’s tracking of global attitudes consistently placed the United States ahead of China in international favourability. That long-standing pattern has now broken. In its latest survey, conducted between…
South Korea’s Financial Services Commission has announced a temporary ban on new listings of single-stock leveraged exchange-traded funds, alongside a sharp increase in the minimum deposit required for retail investors to trade such products — a regulatory reversal that follows…
Picture the scene: a Singapore office tower, mid-afternoon, the equatorial sun pressing down at 33°C outside, and inside, a colleague reaching under her desk for a cardigan. The air-conditioning has been cranked to somewhere near arctic. It is a small,…
A Privacy Feature With a Pre-emptive Shield Meta-owned WhatsApp is preparing to roll out a username feature that will allow users to connect with one another without disclosing their phone numbers — a meaningful privacy upgrade for a platform that…
