Every August, a familiar ritual plays out across Singapore’s middle-class households. The latest global university rankings drop, and with them comes the annual cascade of WhatsApp forwards, forum threads, and dinner-table negotiations between parents and their children about what a…
In 1846, two men sat down to commercialise a technology that most of Britain had barely heard of. William Fothergill Cooke, an engineer, and John Lewis Ricardo, a businessman, founded the Electric Telegraph Company to bring electric telegraph communication to…
A Five-Year Affair Reaches Its Conclusion The Law Society of Singapore’s disciplinary tribunal struck Workers’ Party (WP) chief Pritam Singh off the legal rolls on Thursday, 13 August, bringing what analysts describe as the likely final chapter of a political…
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto used his second State of the Nation address to declare measurable progress on food security, energy independence and rural economic development — while analysts cautioned that several of his headline targets remain structurally difficult to meet.…
A Constitution Forty Years Out of Date South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has publicly endorsed a fundamental restructuring of the country’s executive framework — one that would replace the current single five-year presidential term with a renewable four-year model,…
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…
Walk into any HDB resale viewing on a Saturday morning and you will likely find a property agent armed with a tablet, a rehearsed pitch, and a commission structure that the buyer may not fully understand. For most Singaporeans, that…
Lawyer and opposition figure Lim Tean is back in Singapore custody — not because he surrendered, but because Malaysia handed him over. The 61-year-old was arrested by the Royal Malaysia Police (RMP) in Johor Bahru on August 6, five days…
A Historic First Half, Driven by One Force Singapore’s non-oil domestic exports posted their strongest first-half performance since 2010, growing 18.6 per cent in the first six months of 2026. The headline figure for Q2 alone — a 27.4 per…
