Still in the black, Singapore has dropped further in the World Press Freedom Index this year from 158 to 160, the worst it has ever been....
Tokyo Olympics organisers may put off an announcement on how many fans can attend until June, media reported Wednesday, as surging coronavirus infections play havoc with...
India recorded more than 2,000 COVID deaths on Wednesday and almost 300,000 new cases, among the world’s biggest daily totals since the pandemic began, official data...
As the number of COVID-19 cases continue to soar in India, the Ministry of Health (MOH) has announced on Tuesday (20 April) that travellers with recent...
When it comes to offering advice to job seekers, SGUnited officers may “lack comprehensive understanding” in doing so as they do not look at job descriptions...
A 90-year-old Hong Kong woman has been conned out of US$32million by fraudsters posing as Chinese officials, police said, in the city’s biggest recorded phone scam....
by Sara Hussein Eerie wails, explosive trumpets and ghostly moans. The sounds from the underwater recorders had a story to tell, even without a single intelligible...
by Jing Xuan Teng China’s President Xi Jinping will attend US President Joe Biden’s virtual climate summit this week, Beijing said Wednesday, as the world’s top...
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga sent a ritual offering Wednesday to the controversial Yasukuni shrine, a move likely to anger China and South Korea as it...
by John Weaver The proposed European Super League appeared dead in the water on Wednesday after all six English clubs withdrew following a furious backlash from...
by Robin Legrand “Guilty!”: As the jury’s murder conviction against white ex-policeman Derek Chauvin was relayed on a loudspeaker Tuesday, the crowd in front of the...
FIFA president Gianni Infantino on Tuesday warned that clubs involved in the European Super League could face “consequences”, as the backlash built against the deeply divisive...
While the minimum S$15 fee for administrative costs imposed in processing un-nominated Central Provident Fund (CPF) monies is understandable, it is less clear as to why...
Authoritarian regimes in Asia Pacific have used the COVID-19 pandemic to perfect their methods of totalitarian control of information, while the ‘dictatorial democracies’ have used it...
Japan’s third most populated region will on Tuesday ask the central government to impose a state of emergency over the coronavirus as infections rise just three...