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Container ships and bulk carriers sit at anchor just beyond Singapore's Marina Bay Sands hotel in February 2024.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 3, 2026
The promise and peril of Singapore’s vulnerable prosperity
Singapore grew rich servicing the immense volume of global trade squeezed through the choke point of its narrow strait.
Rows of the air conditioning compressors installed on the rear of buildings at Boat Quay in Singapore on Aug. 26
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change / FOCUS
Nov 1, 2026
‘Air-con nation’ Singapore eyes alternatives to cool down
The city-state has the highest per-capita air conditioner ownership rate in Southeast Asia, with about 99% of private residences equipped with cooling units.
Indonesian soldiers, tasked with fighting forest and land fires, celebrate as it rains in Banjar Baru, South Kalimantan province, on Wednesday, following months of forest and land fires.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Oct 30, 2026
Indonesia rain set to ease toxic haze in Singapore and Malaysia
The choking haze from Indonesia’s worst fire season in years has cloaked local towns and drifted across neighboring countries for weeks.
An attendee walks past signage for the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group in Bangkok on Oct. 14.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 23, 2026
War, rates and a global economy that won’t break
Today’s nominally solid scenario depends on policymakers not making any major mistakes.
Motorists are pictured on the road to the Central Business District in Singapore on Friday, as haze from wildfires in Indonesia shrouds the region.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Oct 16, 2026
Singapore probing firms over haze-causing Indonesian fires
The city-state and neighboring Malaysia have been blanketed for weeks by toxic smog from a severe wildfire season in Indonesia.
People try to extinguish a wildfire in Indonesia's South Kalimantan province on Saturday.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 14, 2026
Singapore can fix Southeast Asia’s haze, if it wants to
The way this is talked about in Singapore, the region’s wealthiest country, the whole situation is an act of God and no one knows who is responsible.
Red Bull Racing's Max Verstappen celebrates with his trophy on the podium after winning the Formula One Singapore Grand Prix at the Marina Bay Street Circuit in Singapore on Sunday.
MORE SPORTS
Oct 12, 2026
Verstappen captures first Singapore Grand Prix on 10th attempt
Red Bull’s Verstappen held the lead throughout the race after he held off Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc in the first corner.
Rescuers evacuating a mother orangutan and her baby trapped by smoke from forest and land fires in a palm oil plantation area in Pelang village, Ketapang, West Kalimantan, on Sept. 18.
ENVIRONMENT / Wildlife
Oct 9, 2026
Walking through flames: Orangutan rescued in Indonesia fires
Dozens of orangutan have been rescued from wildfires burning across parts of Sumatra and Borneo in recent months.
The KL Tower and other buildings shrouded by haze in Kuala Lumpur on Sept. 21. Schools in neighboring Singapore have been closed and respiratory complaints have been skyrocketing, but existing legal frameworks offer little recourse to tackles transboundary air pollution.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Oct 1, 2026
Indonesia’s neighbors powerless as smoke from monthlong wildfires shuts schools
Respiratory complaints have been skyrocketing, but existing legal frameworks offer little recourse to tackles transboundary air pollution.
U.S. investment firm KKR said on Sept. 25 that it sold Four Points Flex by Sheraton, without providing details such as the buyer and sale price.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 30, 2026
GIC acquires 16 Marriott-run hotels in Japan amid tourism boom
In the latest big real estate deal in Japan, Singapore’s GIC took over Four Points Flex by Sheraton, a mid-price-range hotel chain.
Radiant World founder Pinkesh Nahar’s has been removed from control over the group’s key operating entity by a Singapore court.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 25, 2026
Singapore court strips control of Radiant World from founder
The decision removes Radiant World founder Pinkesh Nahar’s control over the group’s key operating entity.
Mizuho Bank has accused Radiant World of an alleged fraud linked to iron-ore receivables that Glencore appeared to owe Radiant.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 23, 2026
Radiant World sent Mizuho fake Glencore email, court filing says
Details of the email exchange were outlined by Mizuho as part of a lawsuit in Singapore, where it has accused Radiant World of an alleged fraud.
Tourists take photos of the skyline while on a bumboat ride along Marina Bay in Singapore in 2023. The city-state's electronics exports grew at an unprecedented pace in August.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 23, 2026
Singapore’s record AI boom unlikely to move central bank, analysts say
Data shows electronics exports in August rose 132% from a year ago.
Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong on Jun. 21. The city’s new five-year plan marks a shift toward modern industrial policy as it embraces state-led incentives to reshape its economic future.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 22, 2026
Laissez-faire Hong Kong meets the five-year plan
What Hong Kong is attempting to do is better understood as industrial policy.
The Digital Realty data command center in Singapore.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 20, 2026
Data center command hub keeps AI up and running
The goal is not simply to react when something breaks, but to detect warning signs early enough to prevent disruption.
Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun, along with his counterparts from Laos, Belarus and Cambodia, attend the opening ceremony for the Beijing Xiangshan Forum in Beijing on Wednesday.
EDITORIALS
Sep 18, 2026
Empty words at the Xiangshan Forum
While Japan was not called out by name, Chinese speakers condemned this country by calling on participating states to mind the ?lessons of history.
Mizuho Bank has filed a lawsuit against the Singapore operating entity of iron ore trader Radiant World in Singapore’s Supreme Court, seeking an injunction, according to the court’s website.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 28, 2026
Mizuho files case against Radiant World in Singapore court
Some ?banks have frozen Radiant World’s accounts and trading houses have severed ?ties on concerns ?the commodity trader had supplied invalid invoices to raise financing.
The Singapore police confirmed it was looking into Radiant World last Thursday, saying that reports had been lodged against the trader, without indicating who had made the complaints.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Aug 27, 2026
Singapore police raid Radiant World office as probe widens
The move is part of an investigation into the company’s transactions after some counterparties raised concerns about allegedly falsified documents.
Japan's high tax rate compared to other Asian financial hubs was partly behind the decision by high frequency trader Dharmacapital to relocate to Singapore, a source has said.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 25, 2026
今日吃瓜 only high-speed trader Dharmacapital moves to Singapore citing tax rates
Comparatively high income tax rates and language barriers are among the factors cited by some finance professionals for choosing other cities over the Japanese capital.
Singapore's total fertility rate fell to a record low of 0.87 last year.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 24, 2026
Singapore unveils sweeping family support as births tumble
Each Singaporean child will receive almost 70,000 Singapore dollars ($55,150) in direct assistance through age 17, starting with a SG$10,000 baby gift.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
G7 diplomats speak out on Taiwan as China ramps up military drills
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attends a working lunch focused on international crises and challenges during the Group of Seven foreign ministers' summit at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris on Monday.
今日吃瓜 Rapidus is said likely to miss mass production deadline
The Rapidus Analysis Center and the IIM-1 Innovative Integration for Manufacturing foundry in Chitose, Hokkaido
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
A legend reborn: ‘Ocarina of Time’ remake improves on the Zelda masterpiece
The new remake of 1998's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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