HONG KONG, CHINA — Hong Kong’s sports associations have been told to include “China” in their official names or risk having funding pulled, as authorities embrace...
BEIJING, CHINA — Beijing said Wednesday it would scrap visa-free transit for South Korean and Japanese citizens, stepping up a diplomatic tit-for-tat after both countries placed...
HOKKAIDO – A 41-year-old Singaporean woman and her four-month-old daughter on holiday trip in Japan’s Hokkaido, were killed in an car accident on yesterday (10 January)...
SINGAPORE — No clear explanation was provided by Mr Desmond Lee, Minister for National Development, as to why the Ministry of National Development (MND) cannot provide...
JAKARTA, INDONESIA — Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Wednesday expressed regret over mass human rights violations committed in the country’s past, including a violent anti-communist purge...
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM — The British and Japanese prime ministers will sign a “hugely significant” new defence deal allowing UK troops to deploy in Japan when...
SINGAPORE — Two passengers onboard a Scoot flight that was about to depart from Taipei to Singapore were injured after a power bank reportedly caught fire....
TOKYO, JAPAN — Tokyo on Wednesday criticised China’s move to stop issuing visas to Japanese citizens, saying it had protested the measure and demanded that Beijing...
by Matthew Walsh BENGBU, CHINA — Exhausted doctors working overtime, tests and treatments nowhere to be found, and under-resourced clinics inundated with patients — in Anhui,...
by Joseph Nathan When news broke yesterday that three senior executives at SPH Media have been inflating its circulation data, the whole saga very quickly escalated...
MALAYSIA — Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, Malaysia’s 8th Prime Minister, has refuted allegations of embezzlement of RM92.5 billion by his administration as “a monstrous lie based...
by Sara Hussein TOKYO, JAPAN — Mosquitoes that transmit dengue and other viruses have evolved growing resistance to insecticides in parts of Asia, and novel ways...
HONG KONG, CHINA — Hong Kong has accused Britain of interfering in its legal system after a UK minister met this week with lawyers representing jailed...
SINGAPORE — The Ministry of Finance (MOF) invested about S$70 billion in new Temasek shares as capital injections into Temasek Holdings over the past 20 years....
SINGAPORE — The Singapore government has spent an estimated sum of between S$150 million and S$175 million, or around 0.2 per cent of total Government expenditure,...