What will happen? Indonesian authorities want to expand benefits towards businesses by reclaiming about 8,000 hectares of idle or confiscated land in Batam, and develop it into enclaves of special economic zones. These enclaves would serve as an alternative shipping and manufacturing hub, with…
What happened? Twitter has deleted more than 10,000 accounts that posted misleading tweets. These accounts were “disguised” as run by Democrats and posted tweets that discouraged people from voting in the coming elections. One of the tweets discouraged Democratic men from voting as it…
A U.N. human rights expert has called on the Japanese government to halt the return of women and children displaced by the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. In wake of the disaster, the Japanese government raised the annual acceptable level of radiation from 1 millisievert…
On 25 Oct, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced its indictment against a Singaporean trader for allegedly helping North Korean entities evade U.S. sanctions. Tan Wee Beng, the director of Wee Tiong (S) Pte Ltd and managing director of WT Marine Pte Ltd, was…
For 83 years, Tsukiji Market in Tokyo, Japan has been a warren of shops and warehouses, where small turret trucks laden with ice-filled boxes of fish zip around. But Tokyo city officials say it became dilapidated and unsanitary. Tsukiji Market ceased operations on Oct…
Nanyang Technological University (NTU) recently organised NTUtopia, a “premium by-invitation” career fair for NTU students. However, the fair drew flak when students who failed to score a minimum GPA of 3.75, or were not in scholar programmes, were ineligible to participate in the fair.…
Created by real-time big data, Virtual Singapore is a 3D digital model of Singapore as a Smart Nation initiative. Virtual simulations could analyse how Singapore will fare under various conditions. For example, “live” data like air quality, temperature and noise data could be used…
On Sept 28, a magnitude 7.5 quake occurred 78km north of Palu, Indonesia at 6.02pm Singapore time. The earthquake also triggered a tsunami. Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) had initially issued a tsunami warning, but retracted it shortly after, a move that…
