- January 28th, 2026
A noticeable burning smell detected across various parts of Singapore in recent days is likely due to smoke haze drifting south from vegetation fires north of the island, the National Environment Agency (NEA) said on Monday (Jan 26). In a...
Singapore must strengthen its integration efforts if it is to sustain higher levels of immigration, Acting Transport Minister Jeffrey Siow said on Monday (Jan 26), warning that demographic realities leave the city-state with few alternatives. Speaking at the Institute of...
Vaclav Havel’s seminal 1978 essay The Power of the Powerless is rarely encountered today outside university syllabi or the shelves of political theorists. That absence is telling. In an era defined by strategic ambiguity, selective morality and the quiet retreat...
Passengers aboard a ferry that capsized off the southern Philippines in the middle of the night were thrown into panic as the vessel suddenly listed and overturned, killing at least 18 people, many of them elderly women, according to a...
Micron Technology broke ground on an advanced wafer fabrication facility in Singapore on Tuesday (Jan 27), marking the country’s first double-storey wafer manufacturing fab and a major expansion of the US chipmaker’s footprint in Southeast Asia. The new facility will...
Many across the United States endured another punishing night of subfreezing temperatures and widespread power outages as a colossal winter storm dumped more snow on the Northeast on Monday, Jan. 26, while large parts of the South remained locked under...
US President Donald Trump moved on Monday to defuse mounting political fallout over the killing of a second person by federal immigration agents in Minnesota, dispatching his “border czar” to the state and striking a notably conciliatory tone with Democratic...
Israeli forces on Monday (Jan 26) brought home the remains of Ran Gvili, the last Israeli hostage held in Gaza, marking the end of a prolonged and deeply emotional chapter that has weighed heavily on Israeli society since Hamas’s Oct....
The first official trilateral talks between the United States, Russia and Ukraine since the outbreak of the war in February 2022 briefly raised hopes that diplomacy might finally gain traction. Instead, the meeting ended on Saturday (Jan 24) without a...
A sharply worded editorial published by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Daily has cast an unusually stark spotlight on the political significance of the investigations into two of China’s most senior military leaders, Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli, underscoring what...
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