Rising innovation in sectors will reward SMIDs in due course, says Natixis IM Singapore CEO

A restroom with runway views at Incheon International Airport has won the Presidential Award, the top prize at South Korea's 28th Beautiful Restroom Awards.

Singapore is seeking to flip the script by turning its land and manpower constraints into reasons to embrace AI instead of fearing it, even as the technology carries the spectre of job losses and cyberthreats in the wrong hands, a senior official has said. Minister for Digital Development and Information Josephine Teo argued that pragmatism would give her resource-scarce country an edge without becoming overly reliant on any single power or AI provider. At the Family Business Summit in Hong Kong...

Local election and political systems may present challenges.

The event themed Echoes of Time II will feature ceramics, imperial artifacts, commissioned porcelain, and valuable ancient jade pieces, connecting collectors and art lovers and widely spreading heritage values.

An Indonesian police inquiry into the wiretapping of President Prabowo Subianto’s phone was a matter for law enforcement, the country’s police chief said on Thursday, as the scandal exposed the deepening cracks between Prabowo and his former backer and predecessor, Joko Widodo. “We assure you that this is ‌purely law enforcement and has nothing to do with rivalries or anything else,” police chief Suyudi Ario Seto told reporters without elaborating, adding that the arrests must serve as a lesson...

The recognition highlights the historical, cultural and documentary values of the two collections while acknowledging Việt Nam's contributions to preserving and sharing the common heritage of the Asia-Pacific region as well as the world.

Marriages between South Korean men and Japanese women rose 25.8% to a record 1,494 in 2025, even as unions with brides from Vietnam, China and Thailand declined, government data shows.

A consultant has proposed six electric rail lines totaling more than 100 km to link central Da Lat with Lien Khuong Airport and major tourist sites, in a draft urban plan for the highland city.

Facing a decline in new student enrollment, several private U.S. universities are taking a drastic action just as the latest admissions season gets underway: cutting their tuition fees by over 50%.

Singapore’s Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) on Thursday rejected a report that a power outage at Woodlands Checkpoint caused traffic congestion along the causeway and on several roads in Johor Bahru on Wednesday. In its account of Wednesday’s events, ICA said a build-up of Singapore-bound traffic occurred amid planned electrical maintenance works, while two vehicle breakdowns on the Malaysian side of the causeway subsequently contributed to traffic tailing back into...

Aliff admits his mistake, pledges to reform.

Vietnam’s growing nuclear partnership with Russia could help Hanoi gain the expertise needed to fuel its ambitious nuclear programme amid doubts over Western sanctions against Moscow and financing challenges complicating the plans. The Vietnam Atomic Energy Institute (Vinatom) and a subsidiary of Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom, which is leading the development of the MBIR International Research Centre, announced on Tuesday that they had signed a memorandum of understanding to...