It was reported on TOC that Singaporean economist and academic, Mr Li Shengwu, 38, has been awarded the prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship for 2023. Shengwu, who is...
MALAYSIA — An opposition member of parliament in Malaysia has alluded that consuming low-quality food could risk people being exposed to illnesses, such as cancer and...
BEIJING, CHINA — China’s financial sector was jolted Friday by reports that Bao Fan, the billionaire chairman of investment bank China Renaissance, had gone missing. No...
HANOI, VIETNAM — Vietnamese police have discovered around 2,000 dead cats intended for use in traditional medicine, state media said Friday. The bodies of the felines...
MALAYSIA – The Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (SUHAKAM) has welcomed the government’s decision to place children held in immigration depots under the care of non-governmental...
SINGAPORE — The Singapore Budget 2023 was announced by Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Lawrence Wong on 14 February, with media such as the state-funded...
ISTANBUL, TURKEY — Five Syrian children and their parents died on Friday in a fire that struck a Turkish home they moved to after surviving last...
by Maryke Vermaak, with Aishwarya Kumar in Bengaluru NEW DELHI, INDIA — Just weeks after the BBC aired a documentary examining Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s...
SINGAPORE — Former senior executives of offshore structure builder Keppel Fels, Wong Kok Seng and Tan Seng Cheh, have been fined after being charged with corruption...
by Tomohiro Osaki TOKYO, JAPAN — The former president of a major Japanese advertising firm pleaded guilty Friday to bribing an Olympics official to secure a...
BANGKOK, THAILAND — Thailand’s economy expanded by 2.6 per cent last year on the back of a tourism recovery and strong consumer confidence but an export...
TURKEY — The 68-member Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) team that had been providing aid in Turkey since 8 February, is preparing to depart later today...
SINGAPORE — Singaporeans lost a total of $660.7 million to scams in 2022, an increase from $632 million in 2021, the police have reported. This brings...
SINGAPORE — Singapore-based fashion technology start-up Zilingo has faced enforcement action from the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA) for not filing its annual returns for...
On Monday (13 Feb), Singapore online magazine Goody Feed published an article raising the question of whether a Singaporean family can survive on a monthly household...