It was reported on TOC that Singaporean economist and academic, Mr Li Shengwu, 38, has been awarded the prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship for 2023. Shengwu, who is...
MALAYSIA — An opposition member of parliament in Malaysia has alluded that consuming low-quality food could risk people being exposed to illnesses, such as cancer and...
BEIJING, CHINA — China’s financial sector was jolted Friday by reports that Bao Fan, the billionaire chairman of investment bank China Renaissance, had gone missing. No...
HANOI, VIETNAM — Vietnamese police have discovered around 2,000 dead cats intended for use in traditional medicine, state media said Friday. The bodies of the felines...
MALAYSIA – The Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (SUHAKAM) has welcomed the government’s decision to place children held in immigration depots under the care of non-governmental...
SINGAPORE — The Singapore Budget 2023 was announced by Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Lawrence Wong on 14 February, with media such as the state-funded...
ISTANBUL, TURKEY — Five Syrian children and their parents died on Friday in a fire that struck a Turkish home they moved to after surviving last...
by Maryke Vermaak, with Aishwarya Kumar in Bengaluru NEW DELHI, INDIA — Just weeks after the BBC aired a documentary examining Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s...
SINGAPORE — Former senior executives of offshore structure builder Keppel Fels, Wong Kok Seng and Tan Seng Cheh, have been fined after being charged with corruption...
by Tomohiro Osaki TOKYO, JAPAN — The former president of a major Japanese advertising firm pleaded guilty Friday to bribing an Olympics official to secure a...
