Taiwan’s Foreign Ministry said that it had expressed serious concern to the Honduran government and urged it to consider its decision carefully and not “fall into China’s trap”. A source familiar with the situation in Taiwan said that the island needed to exhaust “every possible means” to maintain diplomatic tiesContinue Reading
‘The Middle East has oil, and China has rare earths,’ Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping noted in 1987 Rare earth elements are a class of 17 metals essential to the technology, transportation, energy, defense, and aerospace industries. These are used for high-powered magnets and precision parts in devices ranging from batteries, solar panels and wind turbines […]Continue Reading
Naval power is commonly applied near landmasses where the commercial and military links between states are bundled. The great naval battles of history from Salamis to Actium and Lepanto to Trafalgar, Tsushima Strait and Midway occurred near contested positions on land. The World War II Battle of the Atlantic was fought across the North Atlantic’s […]Continue Reading
Farmers in Maharashtra are protesting after onion prices suddenly crashed over the past few weeks.Continue Reading
The Pheu Thai Party has unveiled a new policy aimed at tackling four major types of debt that Thailand and its people are struggling to cope with, namely public debt, debts facing farmers, those incurred by SMEs, and non-bank debts.Continue Reading
A drug offender, a domestic helper, a rape survivor, a divorcee, a cancer warrior – what do these women have in common? Award-winning Singaporean author Loretta Chen finds the common thread of love, pain and beauty among 20 such stories in her new book M/OTHER.Continue Reading
Two veteran politicians have left the Democrat Party for the United Thai Nation (UTN) Party, while the last remaining core members of the Sam Mitr group, one of the mainstay factions in the ruling Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP), are poised to return to the Pheu Thai Party, according to political sources.Continue Reading
SINGAPORE: A Singapore Airlines (SIA) flight was grounded in Johannesburg, South Africa, for hours on Tuesday (Mar 14) after a bomb threat. Singapore Airlines flight SQ478 was flying from Singapore to Cape Town via Johannesburg when SIA was alerted to the bomb threat, the airline said in response to CNA’sContinue Reading
Even as Singapore draws precious lessons from the COVID-19 experience, as we did with SARS 20 years ago, it’s important to recognise that pandemics are complex, evolving situations fraught with uncertainty, says Duke-NUS’ Khoo Yoong Khean.Continue Reading
As tensions rise with China and Russia, Australia, the UK and the US see merit in tightening their already close security and intelligence relationship, says the Financial Times’ Gideon Rachman.Continue Reading