SINGAPORE: It started out as strictly business: a huge private contract for one of the world’s most advanced undersea fibre-optic cables. It became a trophy in a growing proxy war between the United States and China over technologies that could determine who achieves economic and military dominance for decades toContinue Reading
When Nepal’s Yeti Airlines plane crash happened in February, Singapore’s Transport Safety Investigation Bureau was roped in to help Nepalese authorities retrieve and process the data from the flight recorders – commonly called “black boxes”.Continue Reading
Thai Airways International has announced the cancellation of round-trip flights on its Bangkok-Frankfurt and Bangkok-Munich routes on Sunday and Monday because of transport workers’ strikes in Germany.Continue Reading
TOKYO – If you’re wondering why Japan continues to make it easy for China’s economy to race ahead, look no further than events at Toyota Motor. In decades past, Japan’s most celebrated name disrupted the US and Europe with innovation and productivity methods the West struggled to match. Now, a similar disruption is happening to Toyota. The electric […]Continue Reading
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Make app accessible to Mâsians, help them plan for retirement Advisonomics, a licensed financial planning firm, has partnered with Kakitangan.com to make the CashKu mobile app accessible to more Malaysians. Â
In a statement, the cloud payroll and HR software provider said both parties…Continue Reading
SINGAPORE: Residents at a Build-to-Order (BTO) project in Bukit Panjang suffered a three-hour water outage last Sunday (Mar 19), the second water supply disruption since they moved in about a year ago. The town council has identified an electrical fault as the cause of the outage but the Member ofContinue Reading
As jostling superpowers U.S. and China continue to maintain global influence, Southeast Asia’s combined power could put the region in a prime position to rise to the top rungs of political potential, as Australian think tank Lowy Institute’s latest Asia Power Index suggests
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JAKARTA: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, erupted on Friday night (Mar 17) and continued to spew hot ash and other volcanic material on Saturday. Footage of flaming lava pouring out of the crater and a tall column of hot cloud rising 1,300m into the airContinue Reading
There were violent scenes on Tuesday as police attempted to arrest Pakistan’s opposition leader.Continue Reading
Violet Coco had been sentenced to 15 months jail, sparking a row in Australia over protest rights.Continue Reading