The Office of the United States Trade Representative’s (USTR’s) Section 301 hearings have turned into a fresh flashpoint in Indo-US trade ties, with American industry groups pushing for punitive tariffs on... Read more »
It wouldn’t be a Haruki Murakami novel without a sex scene, and that’s exactly how “Killing Commendatore” (2017) opens up. The unnamed male narrator describes sex with two women he slept with... Read more »
Days after Donald Trump was greeted in Beijing with a military band, an honour guard and dozens of youths waving American and Chinese flags, Vladimir Putin arrived in China to an almost... Read more »
Disclaimer: Unless otherwise stated, any opinions expressed below belong solely to the author. Data sourced from the Economic Development Board and Singapore Department of Statistics. After a turbulent 2025, following the return... Read more »
Indian states should begin treating overseas employment as an economic development strategy by setting up dedicated migration systems, including state-run recruitment agencies, foreign-language training programmes and digital dashboards tracking global labour... Read more »
Combination of factors is dimming the shine of one of the stars of Japanese restaurant culture. Izakaya are a unique part of Japanese food culture. Their closest analogy would be pubs, since... Read more »
Germany must stop admiring China’s success in the EU or it will sleepwalk into the kind of deindustrialisation the US experienced 25 years ago, a leading Brussels thinktank has said. With China’s... Read more »
BEIJING/MOSCOW, May 20 – China’s Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Wednesday hailed progress in their ‘comprehensive partnership’ and criticised U.S. President Donald Trump’s Golden Dome project but did not announce... Read more »
Echo Protocol, a decentralised finance (DeFi) protocol deployed on the Monad blockchain, was hacked after an attacker managed to mint around 1,000 unauthorised eBTC on the protocol. Blockchain analytics platform Lookonchain and... Read more »
Warning: This report contains distressing details of child abuse. SINGAPORE: A man who repeatedly abused a toddler under a year old in horrific ways, because of his grudge against the child’s father,... Read more »