SINGAPORE — China started reopening its borders today (8 Jan) after close to three years of self-isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was reported that the...
by Jing Xuan Teng with Vivian Lin in Shanghai and Xinqi Su in Hong Kong China lifted quarantine requirements for inbound travellers on Sunday, ending almost...
by Matthew Walsh Jack Ma, the unconventional billionaire founder of tech giant Alibaba and the totem of China’s entrepreneurial brilliance, has stepped out of the limelight...
SINGAPORE — A complaint by a Seng Kang resident about the mouldy facade of her HDB flat on Facebook has set the local media buzzing with...
NEW DELHI, INDIA — US banking giant Wells Fargo on Friday sacked a top Indian executive now being pursued by police for allegedly urinating on a...
YANGON, MYANMAR — Myanmar’s junta is holding talks with three ethnic rebel groups on staging elections in areas they control, a rebel spokesman said Friday, as...
SINGAPORE — Member of Parliament Jamus Lim in a recent update of his regular walkabouts in Seng Kang GRC, shared an account of a family noting...
by Matthew Walsh TANGSHAN, CHINA — Understaffed and underfunded clinics stand half-empty in parts of the Chinese countryside even as hospitals in major cities heave under...
SINGAPORE — Members of Parliament have filed questions about the Manpower for Strategic Economic Priorities (M-SEP) scheme in the upcoming Parliament sitting on 9 January next...
BEIJING, CHINA — The publicised deaths of celebrities in China raise questions about China’s transparency in informing about deaths due to COVID-19. In December, a 40-year-old...
JAKARTA, INDONESIA — Indonesia is relocating its capital city from Jakarta to a site more than 1,000 kilometres (620 miles) away in the rainforests of Borneo...
SINGAPORE — A 26-year-old Singaporean has made his way around the world, but not in the fashion of the adventure novel, “Around the World in Eighty...
Ng Ser Miang, a board member of the Singapore National Olympic Council (SNOC), has been found guilty of failing to act with integrity as a former...
by Marchio Gorbiano with Dessy Sagita in Jakarta JAKARTA, INDONESIA — The twisting road that leads to Indonesia’s future capital is lined with dense rainforest and...
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES — TikTok faces an uncertain year ahead in the United States as anti-China Republicans take greater control in Congress demanding tighter scrutiny...