“The Singapore Core cannot be anything other than Singaporeans,” said Progress Singapore Party (PSP) Youth Wing leader Jess Chua, referring to Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee...
JAKARTA, INDONESIA — Indonesia is planning to build a nuclear power plant after 2025, said Director-General of Electricity at Indonesia’s Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resource,...
Malaysia imposed a tough nationwide lockdown on Tuesday to battle a worsening coronavirus outbreak, as countries across Southeast Asia struggled with a resurgence in cases driven...
Tokyo 2020 was supposed to be a marketing bonanza, but public opposition and a possible spectator ban over virus fears have left some Japanese sponsors with...
Schools in Myanmar will open on Tuesday for the first time since the military seized power, but teachers and students are set to defy the junta’s...
The employers of an American journalist detained by Myanmar authorities said Monday they were yet to receive any information on his whereabouts or wellbeing, a week...
The international airport of Vietnam’s capital will suspend inbound flights from abroad beginning Tuesday, the country’s aviation body announced, as it grapples with a fresh wave...
Chinese authorities imposed fresh travel limits, cancelled flights and tested thousands of residents in Guangdong Monday after the Indian variant of the coronavirus was reported in...
Dozens of leading Hong Kong democracy activists could face up to life in prison for organising an unofficial primary election, prosecutors confirmed Monday, in the most...
by Jeannette Chong-Aruldoss 2.00pm, Tuesday, 31 May 2016 — Seven or eight police officers swarmed into the diminutive 67-year-old’s home. Ignoring her request to take off...
At the age of 68, Khaw Boon Wan has been called out of retirement to chair the new media entity of Singapore Press Holdings (SPH). He...
Members of the public may soon be able to purchase do-it-yourself (DIY) COVID-19 test kits over-the-counter in pharmacies, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Monday (31...
Several thousand Rohingya staged “unruly” protests Monday against living conditions on a cyclone-prone island off Bangladesh where they were moved from vast camps on the mainland,...
China has relaxed its family planning policy to allow couples to have a maximum of three children after a census showed its population is rapidly ageing,...
As of Monday noon (31 May), the Ministry of Health (MOH) has preliminarily confirmed an additional 23 cases of COVID-19 infection in Singapore. This brings the...