It was reported in Reuters on Tuesday (21 Feb 2023) that Seattle has become the first U.S. city to outlaw caste discrimination after its local council voted to...
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA — Lawmakers from Southeast Asia are urging the new Malaysian government to repeal laws that they say are too often used to stifle...
SINGAPORE — A Reuters investigation has raised serious questions about a shoe recycling program launched by chemical company Dow in partnership with the Singapore government, which...
I refer to the “Budget Debate Round-Up Speech” by Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Lawrence Wong during the Budget 2023 debate on Friday (24 Feb)....
by Augustine Low Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said on Friday (24 Feb) that Singaporeans pay much less in taxes compared to citizens elsewhere. He used...
Ms Sylvia Lim, Workers’ Party Member of Parliament for Aljunied GRC, has called for the lowering of the voting age from 21 to 18 years to...
HONG KONG, CHINA — The city of Hong Kong is in shock following the tragic murder of 28-year-old Chinese socialite and influencer, Abby Choi Tin-fung. Choi’s...
During the Committee of Supply debate for Budget 2023, Workers’ Party Member of Parliament for Aljunied GRC, Mr Gerald Giam, called for more detailed information on...
During the Budget 2023 debate in Parliament on Friday, Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Lawrence Wong made several attacks on the opposition parties and...
In the Budget 2023 debate held on February 24, 2023, Non-Constituency Member of Parliament Leong Mun Wai of the Progress Singapore Party claimed that middle-class Singaporeans...
FLORIDA, UNITED STATES — A Mississippi resident, Connor O’Keefe, has filed a lawsuit against Singapore’s state investment firm, Temasek Holdings, and 17 other banks, venture capitalists,...
PARIS, FRANCE — The World Health Organization said on Friday that increasing reports of the H5N1 avian flu among humans were “worrying” following the death of...
by Teo Soh Lung In the 21 February 2023 press release of the Ministry of Home Affairs, it was announced that a 15 year old boy...
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA — During the tabling of Budget 2023 on 24 February, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim pledged to fight corruption, which was met...
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND — UN rights chief Volker Turk on Friday slammed the human cost of Russia’s “senseless” year-old war in Ukraine and urged greater efforts to...