The Elections Department (ELD) plans to introduce electronic voter registration in time for the next General Election (GE), which must be called by January 2021. A tender for the equipment required is expected to be called later this year. The current registration system involves…
What happened? Fallen trees, torn roads and 42 landslides – the Philippine archipelago was hit with what the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) labels the strongest tropical cyclone the world has faced so far, this year. Typhoon Mangkhut started at Baggo, at around 0:14 (local…
With gold medals finally around their necks, all the members on the Korean football team in the Asian Games have earnt exemption from their nation’s mandatory military service. Twenty-one months of military service is compulsory for all South Koreans between ages 18 to 35,…
Lego, controlled by Denmark’s billionaire Kirk Kristiansen family, plans to manufacture its iconic building blocks using plastic made from sustainable materials such as sugar cane, instead of fossil fuels, by 2030. Its goal is to be a leader in fighting plastic pollution that in…
On the 5th of September, the New York Times released a ground-breaking Op-Ed of an anonymous official in the White House working in a resistance against President Donald Trump’s administration. The unnamed official has described President Trump’s leadership style as “impetuous, adversarial, petty and…
Not-for-profit social enterprise hawker centres were introduced three years ago, aiming to keep food prices low for consumers and make the hawker trade sustainable. Unfortunately, these hawkers pay an average of S$4,000 a month in rent (even higher than that of popular food centres),…
Yes, but at least a decade from now… After Malaysian PM Mahathir said in May that Malaysia would be scrapping the project, and then in July that it would instead be deferred, Singapore and Malaysia have come to a formal agreement to postpone the…
2018 ushered in a sombre summer for Japan as the nation found itself beset by a spade of natural disasters – most notably a typhoon on 4th September and an earthquake three days later. The Typhoon The barrage of natural disasters began with Typhoon…
What Happened? On Thursday (Sep 6), the LGBTIA+ community in India celebrated a historical triumph: After 24 years of legal challenges and determined struggle, the supreme court of India finally scrapped a colonial-era law criminalising consensual gay sex, called Section 377, hence officially legalising…
In the wake of India’s historic Supreme Court ruling to decriminalise consensual gay sex, Singapore’s Ambassador-at-Large Professor Tommy Koh commented on Facebook on 6th September that he “…would encourage our gay community to bring a class action to challenge the constitutionality of Section 377A”.…
