Japan, Singapore, and South Korea all posted record-low birth rates for 2023, providing the latest evidence that much of Asia is grappling with a severe demographic crisis that will lead to higher costs for social services and reduced manpower for industry in the near future.
Meet Ashwath Kaushik. He’s an eight-year-old with all the right moves. So many in fact the Singaporean defeated 37-year-old Polish chess grandmaster Jacek Stopa in the fourth round of the Burgdorfer Stadthaus Open in Switzerland over the weekend.
China’s Spring Festival was one of the biggest travel seasons in the world before the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, and on Thursday, the state-run Global Times anticipated it would return to its full glory this year, with over nine billion passenger trips taken during the next 40 days.
Chinese officials and state media predictably set their hair on fire after Lai Ching-te won Taiwan’s presidential election on Saturday, extending the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) hold on power to an unprecedented third term.
The city-state of Singapore requires citizens to pay for a “certificate of entitlement” (COE) that costs over $106,000 in order to own a car.
Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu vanished from public view more than two weeks ago, missing several important events.
A couple from New Zealand recently had an unpleasant travel experience on Singapore Airlines in June because of a furry passenger.
The global diminution of the Disney brand continued Tuesday as it announced Lucasfilm’s visual effects and animation studio in Singapore is closing.
The Wall Street Journal reports the flow of tourists and business travelers to China has slowed to a trickle.
A cargo ship packed with nearly 3,000 cars was still ablaze Thursday close to a world-renowned bird habitat off the Dutch coast.
Chinese delegates to the Shangri-La Dialogue in Shanghai this weekend scoffed at the notion India’s military could challenge the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China, while Chinese state media portrayed a deadly Indian train crash as evidence that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is incompetent and untrustworthy.
Senior officials from some two dozen of the world’s major intelligence agencies gathered for a secret meeting in Singapore over the weekend on the sidelines of the annual Shangri-La Dialogue.
An investigation by Reuters found that multiple shoes donated to a recycling program later ended up in Indonesia, some having been put up for sale in bazaars, seemingly contradicting the program’s stated purpose.
A South Korean court on Wednesday issued a warrant for the arrest of Do Kwon, founder of the blockchain platform Terraform Labs and creator of two cryptocurrencies called Luna and TerraUSD.
Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced on Sunday that his government would decriminalize sex between gay men.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and a delegation of five other U.S. lawmakers met with Singapore’s President Halimah Yacob, Prime Minister Lee Gsien Loong, and Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan on Monday, the first stop on a tour of the Indo-Pacific region that could bring Pelosi to Taiwan.
The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) staged military exercises and published propaganda videos of various weapons, including an alleged “aircraft carrier killer,” on Sunday and Monday in anticipation of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) arriving in Asia and potentially visiting Taiwan.
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Singapore early Monday to start her Asia tour with questions remaining as to whether Taiwan is included in the lightning trip.
Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin may hold an in-person meeting on the sidelines of the “Shangri-La Dialogue” security summit in Singapore later this week, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Tuesday citing an anonymous source close to China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA).
The debate over using remedies from traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) to treat the Wuhan coronavirus grew more vicious this week, as Chinese state-controlled social media denounced doctors who questioned the effectiveness of the highly profitable, heavily government-promoted herbal concoctions as traitors and foreign agents.
Prominent Chinese neurologist Rao Yi, president of Capital Medical University in Beijing, on Wednesday criticized the government’s decision to ship millions of doses of a traditional Chinese herbal cure to Shanghai, even as the city’s captive population struggles to find food and medicine during a grueling coronavirus lockdown.
The land border separating Singapore from Malaysia — one of the busiest in the world — reopened to fully vaccinated travelers on Friday after a two-year-long closure due to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, Bloomberg reported, noting the event prompted “thousands” of people to travel between the Southeast Asian nations earlier that day.
Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine in late February highlighted China’s “awkward” stance toward Taiwan, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Wednesday.
Five days after the White House cast President Joe Biden as a man on a mission to be “leader of the free world” ahead of his disastrous tour of Europe, he returns to the diplomatic stage Tuesday to meet visiting Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
The Singapore government announced Thursday from April 1st it will no longer require mandatory quarantines for vaccinated travellers – providing they have a negative coronavirus test – on arrival.
Singapore will officially open an embassy in Israel for the first time since the two countries established official ties more than half a century ago.
A nine-month pregnant woman living in Singapore recently alleged she was “pushed to the ground” and “kicked” by Singaporean government employees assigned to monitor social distancing at a local park after she confronted the people for their suspicious behavior, Singapore’s Mothership digital news platform reported Thursday.
The South Korean tech company Samsung recently pulled an online advertisement showing a hijabi Muslim woman supporting her drag queen son after intense criticism from residents of Singapore, the ad’s target audience, Agence France-Press (AFP) reported on Friday.
Singapore’s government — which currently provides free medical care to coronavirus patients — announced Monday it will no longer cover the costs of coronavirus-related medical bills for people who choose not to receive a Chinese coronavirus vaccine starting next month, Australia’s Seven News reported Wednesday.
Singapore’s Health Ministry said Wednesday it was investigating an “unusual surge” in the city-state’s new daily cases of the Chinese coronavirus, which hit a record high of 5,324 earlier Wednesday. “The infection numbers are unusually high today, mostly due to
Singapore’s Ministry of Health announced Sunday it launched criminal investigations against the owners of a website that allegedly published false statements about the Chinese coronavirus in direct violation of the city-state’s Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (POFMA), the Straits Times reported Monday.
Singapore, which has a Chinese coronavirus vaccination rate of 82 percent, recorded its highest single-day increase in new locally transmitted cases of the virus Tuesday with 3,994 infections.
Singapore’s parliament passed a new law against foreign interference on Monday that empowers the city-state’s government to better control internet content, India’s News 18 reported Thursday.
A Chinese coronavirus vaccine mandate issued by Singapore’s government in August has “segregated” the city-state and left residents who choose not to receive the inoculation feeling “ostracized,” two Singaporeans told the South China Morning Post (SCMP) on Thursday.
During a press conference with Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said America’s image on the world stage now hangs in the balance following the Afghanistan withdrawal.
Vice President Kamala Harris is being forced to discuss Afghanistan on her trip to Asia as reporters ask questions about the fall of country to the Taliban where thousands of Americans remain stranded and in peril.
China’s state-run Global Times on Monday had some fun at the expense of Vice President Kamala Harris, mocking her for flying to Singapore in an allegedly doomed effort to rally Asian powers against mighty China while her administration presides over a humiliating debacle in Afghanistan.
Vice President Kamala Harris touched down in Singapore early Sunday morning to begin her tour of Asia, with traveling officials saying she will offer reassurances of Washington’s commitment to the region against a backdrop of the chaotic U.S. retreat from Afghanistan and Taliban takeover.
A senior administration official defended the trip, promising that the vice president would continue to focus on the situation in Afghanistan
Singapore’s Health Ministry announced Friday it will ease Chinese coronavirus restrictions across the city-state for vaccinated people starting August 10.
