Category: Asia

The political and economic turmoil that engulfed the leadership of Indonesia’s National Nutrition Agency (BGN) in early June marked the culmination of a governance crisis […]

When CHRO Malaysia 2026 returns to the Sofitel Kuala Lumpur Damansara from 23 to 25 June, its organisers have handed the modern HR leader a […]

Indonesia’s financial markets were jolted Monday (June 8) as the rupiah hit a new record low of over 18,155 to the US dollar and the […]

By: Wong Chin Huat Scattered pictures/of the smiles we left behind/Smiles we gave to one another/For the way we were… Three and a half years […]

In February 2026, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unveiled what may be his most ambitious foreign policy doctrine yet. Standing before his cabinet ahead of […]

The Israeli military bombed Iran on Monday shortly after US President Donald Trump urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to respond to an Iranian missile barrage, which came […]

Singapore’s hiring momentum has cooled sharply heading into Q3 2026, even as employers signal a clear willingness to pay more for AI and critical thinking […]

AI is already deeply embedded in daily work across most organisations, largely outside the boundaries of formal company policy – and the gap between adoption […]

Iran fired barrages of missiles at Israel for the first time in two months on June 7. The initial trigger was an Israeli strike against […]

When Indonesia’s rupiah breached the new psychological threshold of 18,155 per US dollar today (June 8), the currency’s lowest ever level, social stability alarm bells […]

Broadcom, a US supplier of the chips and networking technology that underpin the global artificial intelligence boom, missed revenue expectations last week. Not by much. […]

China’s deployment of the HQ-16F missile opposite Taiwan reflects Beijing’s growing concern that future wars may be fought not just across the Strait, but deep […]

The International Energy Agency has made its May report free to download, and the news is not good for the second and third quarters of this year, […]

Egisto Ott is no James Bond. But the stories the 63-year-old Austrian told a Viennese jury recently would make good plotlines. Ott worked as an […]

Former Straits Times editor-in-chief Warren Fernandez writes with characteristic elegance in his latest RSIS piece, “With or Without You: The U2 Doctrine Comes to Shangri-La”, […]

Coup maker Senior General Min Aung Hlaing’s allies want the world to believe that Myanmar’s military is “on the upswing” and “mounting a comeback” in […]

Thailand’s National Electronics and Computer Technology Centre (Nectec) is pressing the country’s new National AI Committee to make AI-driven job displacement a priority, warning that […]

As regular readers of this blog know, I’m pretty ambivalent about trade barriers as an economic policy. On one hand, I think targeted tariffs and other trade […]

This week, while families gathered outside examination halls across China, some in red qipao for luck, 12.9 million students sat for the gaokao, the world’s […]

By: Shim Jae Hoon Chinese President Xi Jinping begins a two-day state visit to Pyongyang today amid concerns North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un is […]