SINGAPORE: A Singtel disruption on Tuesday (Oct 8) afternoon silenced landlines across Singaporesimplewin, affecting emergency hotlines 999 and 995 as well as other essential services that rely on fixed voice services. The outage underscores the imp

SINGAPORE: One of the key announcements in Prime Minister Lawrence Wong’s inaugural National Day Rally speech was the discontinuing of the four-decade-old Gifted Education Programme (GEP) in its current form. Instead, each primary school will offer

SINGAPORE: It was heartening to see sports featuring in a significant way in Prime Minister Lawrence Wong’s first National Day Rally since taking office. Mr Wong spoke about sports for almost 10 minutes out of his one-and-a-half-hour English rally s

BIRMINGHAM: The early hours of Sunday (Aug 25) saw one of the biggest clashes between Hezbollah and Israel since the start of the Israel-Hamas war. Reactions in the coming hours and days will determine whether the long-feared full-scale escalation t

SINGAPORE: How does one signal they've lost a presidential debate: Make a surprise appearance in the spin room. winpope Donald Trump personally went to the room set aside for reporters and each of the campaign surrogates less than an hour after the

BUSAN, South Korea: Another 50 days or so to go till the United States presidential election and already, for the second time this year on Sunday (Sep 15), it appears that someone tried to assassinate Donald Trump. The would-be gunman Ryan Wesley Ro

SINGAPORE: Even by the standards of the Middle Eastmanilaplay, the pager attacks on Tuesday (Sep 17) in Lebanon, which killed nine and injured thousands, would have left keen observers of the region taken aback by their scale and audacity. The regio