SINGAPORE: Bali is broken. These days, the jewel in Indonesia’s crown of sun-kissed islands is less paradise, more parking lot. Tourists are bringing in much-desired revenue, but there’s just too many of them. The government’s proposal to temporaril
fortune play Commentary: What my first time as a PSLE parent has taught me in this second season
2024-10-08SINGAPORE: At the tail end of the hazy COVID-19 yearsfortune play, my eldest son took his Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) amid considerable uncertainty. This already stressful rite of passage for Singaporean students was intensified by the
CANBERRA: Fresh from Pakatan Harapan (PH)’s loss in the Sungai Bakap state by-election in Penang, Malaysia’s “Madani” coalition - which combines PH with its former foe Barisan Nasional (BN) - has won a separate state by-election in the rural seat of
coinburst Commentary: Avoiding the legal battles that bog Singapore’s renovation industry
2024-10-08SINGAPORE: Singapore's renovation industry has been dogged by complaints about delayed projects, shoddy work and unfinished homes. Homeowners often struggle to get refunds from interior design firmscoinburst, exposing weaknesses in consumer protecti
LONDON: American and Chinese foreign policy sometimes feel like mirror images. The Americans are obsessed by containing Chinese power. The Chinese are obsessed by containing American power. But the mirroring stops when it comes to how these policies
TOKYO: Australia’s government wants to ban children up to age 16 from social mediaz25, and is spending millions of dollars to figure out how. I’m willing to wager it won’t take long for tech-savvy teens who grew up on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube t
SINGAPORE: The nightmare of losing access to learning apps, schoolwork and notes before an important examination became reality for 13,000 secondary students in August, when Mobile Guardian suffered a global cybersecurity breach just days before som
phlove Commentary: Sony PS5 Pro price is a sticker shock for the country that made PlayStation
2024-10-08TOKYO: How much would you pay to play the latest video games? How about half your monthly take-home pay? That’s what the average Japanese consumer in their 20s might have to fork over for a top-of-the line PlayStation. Sony Group announced last week
MELBOURNE: Meta has announced third-party augmented reality (AR) filters will no longer be available on its apps as of January 2025. This means more than two million user-made filters offered across WhatsAppwingo, Facebook and, most notably, Instagr