SINGAPORE —  Minister for Communications and Information Minister Josephine Teo has said that technology will continue to undergird the growth of Singapore’s economy and create job opportunities despite the ongoing massive tech job cuts around the world. Speaking at the launch of Step IT Up, a tech talent conversion programme...

by Paula Bustamante LIMA, PERU — Peru's Congress rejected on Saturday a request by embattled President Dina Boluarte to bring forward elections to December 2023, as protests that have killed dozens rage on against her leadership. The South American country has been embroiled in a political crisis with near-daily protests...

MALAYSIA —  Former health minister Khairy Jamaluddin, was expelled by his own party UMNO (The United Malays National Organisation) yesterday night (27 January). A statement issued by UMNO secretary-general Ahmad Maslan following the party's supreme council meeting, also confirmed that its supreme council Tan Sri Noh Omar, was also suspended...

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND -- The World Health Organization's emergency committee on COVID-19 was meeting Friday to discuss whether the pandemic still merits the highest level of global alert. Before the meeting, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus suggested that the emergency phase of the pandemic is not over, pointing to the more...

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND -- Nearly two years after Myanmar's military coup, the UN rights chief warned Friday that the country had plunged into catastrophe, calling for the military to be brought under civilian oversight. Since the coup that toppled Aung San Suu Kyi's civilian government on 1 February 2021, Myanmar has...

SINGAPORE — An anonymous Grab driver claimed to have made an impressive $5,227.82 in just seven days before Chinese New Year. Singapore social media Facebook page Beh Chia Lor- Singapore Road, shared a screenshot of the Grab driver's income statement today (27 January). The statement shows the income was for...

THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS -- The International Criminal Court said Thursday it had authorised the reopening of an inquiry into the brutal anti-drugs campaign by former Philippines' president Rodrigo Duterte which left thousands dead. Duterte pulled the Philippines out of the Hague-based tribunal in 2019, a year after the ICC began...

MALAYSIA —  Nga Kor Ming, Malaysian minister for local government development, chided a claim that Singapore housing experts were consulted to compensate for its inefficient civil service in housing matters as being "provocative and seditious". Mr Nga stressed that the ministry's intention in inviting foreign experts, including from Singapore, for...