The Best Things To Do in Tokyo This Month: August 2025

Here is what’s happening across Tokyo for the month of August. Check out exhibitions, festivals, events and more! Tokyo Exhibitions and Art Shows in August Aki Sasamoto: Laboratory Explore Aki Sasamoto’s 20-year... Read more »

China’s fast-fashion capital slows down under Trump’s trade war | China

Lingering at a day market for labourers in Panyu, an urban village on the outskirts of Guangzhou, Ms Qiu looks dejected. She is looking for a local factory that will hire her... Read more »

SPH Media awards three journalism scholarships to budding newsroom talent

SINGAPORE – As a 17-year-old Raffles Institution student, Stacey Ngiam used to sit in her school field and look at the SPH Media building across the highway. As an avid listener of... Read more »

Apple Revenue Forecast Beats Estimates, Tariff Costs Projected at $1.1 Billion

Apple forecast revenue for the current quarter ending in September well above Wall Street’s estimates on Thursday, sending shares up despite a warning from CEO Tim Cook that US tariffs would add... Read more »

The Best Things To Do and Places To Visit

August is an exciting time of year in Japan. With scorching temperatures, a string of summer festivals and the ever-present thrum of cicadas, it’s a month in Japan that is festive and... Read more »

Schwartz Media journalists banned from 7am podcast after Gaza episode prompts negative comments | Amanda Meade

Schwartz Media, publisher of the Saturday Paper, the Monthly and the Quarterly Essay, recently sold its 7am podcast to Solstice Media, with the promise its stable of journalists would still appear on... Read more »

Employer in Sumo Salad case was fully reimbursed by insurer, which did not flag if fraud was involved: MOM

INSURERS LOOK FOR ANOMALIES TO DETECT FRAUD Responding to CNA’s queries, Income Insurance’s general manager of corporate business Susan Ong said that work injury compensation fraud “rarely occurs”. When a claim comes... Read more »

50 Countries, including Pakistan and Bangladesh, have tariff rates lower than India. Complete list here

While US President Donald Trump imposed on India 25% tariff plus a “penalty” if New Delhi buys fuel and military hardware from Russia, he imposed lower tariffs on more than 50 countries,... Read more »

How Trump-vetted scientists are trying to shred the climate consensus

A new report from the U.S. Department of Energy says projections of future global warming are exaggerated, while benefits from higher levels of carbon dioxide such as more productive farms are overlooked.... Read more »

Reeves refuses to be drawn on wealth tax after ex-shadow chancellor’s call – UK politics live | Politics

Reeves refuses to be drawn on wealth tax Rachel Reeves has said the government has “got to get the balance right on taxation”, following a call by the former shadow chancellor Anneliese... Read more »