China is eyeing superpower status via Africa and the Caribbean. But are they partners or pawns? | China

At a high-profile global summit held by China this month, there were strong statements directed at the west’s “bullying” as well as renewed calls to stabilise “global governance”. The meeting was the... Read more »

Poly students encouraged to be bold & innovative in envisioning S’pore’s future during Polytechnic Forum 2025

Poly students should think about how all in S’pore can ‘thrive’, says Education Minister at forum Polytechnic students were encouraged to be bold and innovative in envisioning Singapore’s future while solving national... Read more »

India Ready To Take Relationship With EU To Next Level: PM Modi To Ursula von der Leyen | India News

NEW DELHI: European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday extended her warm wishes to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his 75th birthday over a phone call on a day the... Read more »

A crash course in Japanese folktales from a trip to the five Taro Parks of Gifu【Photos】

Technically there are four Taros, but these are still five legends worth knowing. Our Japanese-language reporter Natsuno Futon recently took a trip to Fukushima Prefecture to visit its Pokémon Chansey Park. For... Read more »

Australia’s failure of diplomacy in PNG shows we can’t – and won’t – understand our Pacific neighbours | Allan Behm

Anthony Albanese’s 10 days in the Pacific have been less than stellar. Last week, he could not land a $500m economic and security agreement with Vanuatu, the second such rebuff from Vanuatu... Read more »

Man steals 9 durians worth S$250 from Bukit Batok stall, tried disabling CCTV but got wrong plug

Man arrested after stealing durians worth S$250 from Bukit Batok stall, caught on CCTV A man’s heist of nine durians from a Bukit Batok stall went awry after he pulled the wrong... Read more »

Italian PM Giorgia Meloni shares photo with PM Modi on his 75th birthday, calls him ‘a source of inspiration’

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni extended warm birthday greetings to Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he celebrated his 75th birthday. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Wednesday extended warm wishes to Prime... Read more »

What’s it really like to climb Mt Fuji?

One climber reveals the key to climbing Mt Fuji successfully might be to do it more than once. Mt Fuji is famous for being Japan’s highest peak, and every year approximately 200-300,000... Read more »

International Students in China Complain, “Quark AI Has Forgotten Us!”

Some international students in China have taken to social media platform RedNote (Xiaohongshu) to complain about being excluded from obtaining free educational accounts for Quark AI, an LLM tool widely used by... Read more »

Banned from entering Singapore in 1998, man returns under false identity to start family

SINGAPORE – A convicted immigrant who was prohibited from entering Singapore more than two decades ago decided to assume a new identity to return to the Republic. The man later married and... Read more »