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About One in Four Singtel Discounted Shareholders Sell Shares Ahead of CPF Transfer

About one in four holders of Singtel’s Special Discounted Shares (SDS) have sold their shares ahead of a planned transfer from the…

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Luxury Properties Seized in Singapore Money Laundering Case Fail to Sell at Auction

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Dylan Wang Threatens Legal Action Over False Rumours About Medical Procedure

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Haze Pushes Central Singapore Air Quality Back Into Unhealthy Range

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Asia

Asia

About One in Four Singtel Discounted Shareholders Sell Shares Ahead of CPF Transfer

Asia

Luxury Properties Seized in Singapore Money Laundering Case Fail to Sell at Auction

Asia

Dylan Wang Threatens Legal Action Over False Rumours About Medical Procedure

Asia

Haze Pushes Central Singapore Air Quality Back Into Unhealthy Range

Asia

ICA Seizes 2,200 Cartons of Duty-Unpaid Cigarettes Hidden Under Lorry Floorboard

Politics

Politics

UN Mission Says There Are Grounds to Believe US and Iran Committed War Crimes

Politics

Russian Attack on Kyiv Injures at Least 16

Politics

Afghan Migrants Return Home From Iran as War and Economic Crisis Deepen

Politics

North Korea Says US-Led Arms Buildup Justifies Expanding Nuclear Force

Politics

Ukraine Plans a Record $110 Billion for Defence and Security in 2027 — But It Still Needs $52.6 Billion From Abroad

Lifestyle

Lifestyle

Singapore Haze Forecast Remains Moderate to Low Unhealthy as Smoke Drifts From Sumatra

Lifestyle

Singapore Groups Step Up Haze Support With N95 Masks and Care Packs

Lifestyle

Seoul’s Seoripul Music District Comes Alive for 8th Street Festival

Lifestyle

Korean Instant Noodles Go Global With Pasta-Inspired Flavors and Gochujang Butter

Lifestyle

Leslie Cheung Tribute Exhibition and Hong Kong’s Gen Z Coffee Boss Among Lifestyle Highlights

Entertainment

Entertainment

Christine Fan Faces Backlash Over Remark About Barbie Hsu After Blackie Chen’s Heart Attack

Entertainment

MUIS Says Salaries Unaffected After Cyberattack Hits HR System Used by 48 Mosques

Entertainment

Madonna to Perform at MTV VMAs for First Time in 23 Years

Entertainment

Macklemore Pledges US$1 Million Tour Earnings to Organisations Supporting Palestinians

Entertainment

North-South Corridor Completion Delayed by About Two Years Over Construction Challenges

Business

Business

Thomas Ong Finds Dead Cockroach in Curry Yong Tau Foo at Johor Bahru Restaurant

Business

Oil Prices Extend Losses as Saudi Arabia Eases Middle East Supply Concerns

Business

CoreWeave Wants Another $3 Billion to Fuel the AI Boom — But It Already Had $35.6 Billion in Debt

Business

Megaworld Just Landed The Upper East’s First BPO Tenant in Bacolod — But Its Next Office Tower Carries a 10,000-Job Target

Business

Toyota Wants Its Hybrids in 7,500 New Metro Manila Ride-Hailing Slots — But LTFRB Says Only Plug-Ins and Full EVs Qualify

Sport

Sport

Amanda Lim Is Swimming Faster Than Ever at 33 — But Her Fifth Asian Games Still Has One Medal Missing

Sport

Jürgen Klopp Wants Germans to “Reclaim” Their Flag — But His First National-Team Message Goes Far Beyond Football

Sport

Messi’s First Inter Miami Goal Came Against Cruz Azul — Three Years Later, His 100th Helped Beat Them for Another Trophy

Sport

Mbappe Explains Decision Over Ceuta Solidarity Shirt

Sport

Lanlana Tararudee Withdraws From Asian Games to Pursue Olympic Goal

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Philippines

Philippines

Carpio Says Only 21 Senators Should Count in Sara Duterte’s Impeachment — That Could Cut the Threshold From 16 Votes to 14

Philippines

Philippine Tourism Investments Hit ₱14.5 Billion Under CREATE — But More Than 70% Came in Just the Last 20 Months

Philippines

Arthaland Opens Up to ₱2.5 Billion in Preferred Shares to GCash Users — But the Final Dividend Rates Tell a Different Story

Philippines

Maya Puts Cashback and Up to 10x Miles Under One Credit Limit — But Your Buying Power Doesn’t Double

Philippines

San Miguel Offered Up to ₱30 Billion in Preferred Shares — But GCash Investors Quickly Exhausted Their Broker’s Initial Supply

Singapore

Singapore

Singapore Man Jailed 21 Years for Sexually Abusing 11 Girls Over Three Decades

Singapore

Seven Luxury Properties From Singapore’s S$3 Billion Money-Laundering Case Went to Auction — But Not One Was Sold

Singapore

Singapore’s North-South Corridor Is Delayed Another Two Years — But the Hardest Part Runs Just 1 Metre From an MRT Line

Singapore

Leong Sze Hian Contacted Lim Tean the Day Before His Jail Surrender — But the Court Still Forfeited the Full S$45,000 Bail

Singapore

89% of Singapore Professionals Are Already Using AI at Work — But Only 67% Think It Will Help Their Careers

Taiwan

Taiwan

Trump Put a US$14 Billion Taiwan Arms Package on Hold — Now Japan and Taipei Are Watching What He Tells Xi

Taiwan

Taiwan’s Highest ATM Now in Service at 2,240 Meters — And It Comes With an Apple-Shaped Sign

Taiwan

Taiwan Steps Up North America Tourism Push as Taipei Targets More Long-Haul Visitors

Taiwan

Cathay Financial Turns to AI to Transform Taiwan’s Wealth Management Market

Taiwan

Taiwan Labor Minister to Attend China APEC Meeting as ‘Chinese Taipei’ Amid Cross-Strait Tensions

Thailand

Thailand

The Protest Leader Behind Bangkok’s 2008 Airport Shutdown Is Back — But This Time He Says He Isn’t Trying to Topple the Government

Thailand

Thailand May Delay ฿4 Billion Tourism Stimulus Until April 2027 as Government Rethinks Timing

Thailand

Thailand Warned of a Potential Fiscal Crisis as Debt, Ageing and Slow Growth Squeeze Government Finances

Thailand

Thailand’s Skill Bridge Targets More Than 80,000 Workers as Economy Races Toward High-Tech Industries

Thailand

Thailand’s New Oil Plan Targets Energy Security While Backing Net-Zero 2050

Malaysia

Malaysia

Malaysia Teen, 14, Crashes Family Car Into Two Vehicles in Penang

Malaysia

Malaysia Raises Unsubsidised Fuel Prices Again as Middle East Tensions Push Oil Higher

Malaysia

UMNO Wants GE16 Sooner After Johor and Negeri Sembilan Gains — But Zahid Says It Will Stay in Anwar’s Government Until the End

Malaysia

AirAsia Was Bought for RM1 and Became Asia’s Budget-Flying Giant — Now Malaysia Is Planning for What Happens If It Stumbles

Malaysia

Mother Remembers Daughter One Year After Malaysia School Tragedy

Indonesia

Indonesia

Hanwha Turned LGI’s Loss-Making Health Business Into Its Biggest Profit Engine — Now It Wants Indonesia’s Top Five

Indonesia

Sarawak’s 29 Semenggoh Orangutans Look Healthy Despite the Haze — But Past Borneo Fires Show the Damage Can Linger

Indonesia

Indonesia Just Got Its Third Finance Minister Under Prabowo — But Suahasil Must Chase 6% Growth Without Breaching the 3% Deficit Ceiling

Indonesia

108 Survived Indonesia’s Java Sea Ferry Disaster — But 129 People Are Still Missing Four Days Later

Indonesia

129 Still Missing After Indonesia Ferry Capsizes in Rough Seas — But Rescuers Are Preparing for a Critical Underwater Search

Japan

Japan

Japan May Start Punishing Men Who Solicit Sex — But It Stopped Short of Criminalising the Purchase Itself

Japan

Takaichi Replaced 10 Of Japan’s 18 Ministers— But The People Running Finance, Defense And Foreign Policy Didn’t Move

Japan

Japan’s Natuna Port Proposal Highlights Indonesia’s Balancing Act With China

Japan

Berkshire’s $15.4 Billion Japan Bet Grew to More Than $35 Billion — Now Greg Abel May Buy Even More

Japan

Japan’s HIV/AIDS Reports Fell 10% in 2025 — But Nearly 3 in 10 Were Diagnosed Only After AIDS Developed

Hong Kong

Hong Kong

The Fed Just Raised Rates and Signalled More Hikes — So Why Are Asian Stocks Going Up?

Hong Kong

Hong Kong Just Raised Its Base Rate to 4.25% — But Your Mortgage May Not Move Yet

Hong Kong

HD Construction Equipment Just Won a 45-Excavator Hong Kong Deal — But the Bigger Prize Is a HK$128 Billion Infrastructure Pipeline

Hong Kong

Hong Kong Wants 70,000 Northern Metropolis Homes in Five Years — But Only One of Its Two Biggest Targets Is Binding

Hong Kong

Apollo Is Providing $585 Million to Asia’s The Executive Centre — But Most of the Money Isn’t Going Into New Office

Vietnam

Vietnam

UK Eyes Role in Vietnam’s Infrastructure Boom as Metro Expansion Accelerates

Vietnam

Vietnam Is Lining Up 29 U.S. Deals With SpaceX, Chevron and More — But Many May Not Be Binding

Vietnam

Vietnam Hasn’t Sold a Sovereign Dollar Bond Since 2014 — Now It May Borrow US$1 Billion, but the Price Could Hit 7%

Vietnam

Tesla Just Made Its Biggest Move Yet in Vietnam—And It Could Change the EV Market

Vietnam

The Vietnam Curse Is Finally Broken: John Eriq Bonifacio Makes Philippine Pageant History

South Korea

South Korea

North Korea Says U.S.-Led Military Buildup Justifies More Nukes — But Its Nuclear Infrastructure Is Expanding Too

South Korea

PanStar Reached Europe Through the Arctic in Just 21 Days — But Its Ship Left Korea Only About 30% Full

South Korea

Korea Foundation Honors Former US Peace Corps Volunteers for Decades of Grassroots Diplomacy

South Korea

Jimin’s ‘Like Crazy’ Just Hit 1 Billion Filtered Spotify Streams — But It Actually Crossed a Different Billion Mark Two Years Ago

South Korea

RIIZE’s ‘Love 119’ Just Hit 100 Million Spotify Streams — But Its Next Big Test Arrives October 26

United States

United States

South Korea Pledged $350 Billion to the U.S. for 15% Tariffs — But the Big Investment Announcement Just Got Delayed

United States

US Denies Palestinian Leader Mahmoud Abbas Visa to Attend UN General Assembly

United States

OpenAI Just Disclosed Six Cases of AI Going Off Script — But the Bigger Problem Is the AI Watching the AI

United States

Just 30% of American Airlines Seats Generate 50% of Revenue — But Its Most Exclusive First Class Is Disappearing

United States

US Needs a National Data Strategy for the AI Era — But Not China’s Centralized Model

China

China

China Cuts US Treasury Holdings to 18-Year Low Amid Global Bond Sell-Off

China

EXO-CBX Won Temporary Freedom From INB100 — Now They’re Heading to China, But Two Legal Battles Still Hang Over Them

China

China Urges Iran and US to Show Restraint and Resume Talks

China

China Weighs BYD Founder Wang Chuanfu for Xi-Trump Summit Delegation

China

Jimmy Lai Is Serving 20 Years and Won’t Appeal — Now His Son Is Betting on Xi Jinping’s Washington Visit