No more fighting, ok? Singapore and Malaysia have been embroiled in disputes regarding the use of the Instrument Landing System (ILS) at Seletar Airport, as well as Malaysia’s unilateral claims of port limits sovereign to Singapore. Nonetheless, both sides have agreed to resolve the…
Increased entropy for the nuclear energy market? In April 2016, Japan liberalised the local electricity market, paving the way for renewable energy companies to sell their electricity to a wider range of consumers at competitive prices. Many consumers have enjoyed the benefits of cheaper…
What happened? Paul Manafort, the former campaign chairman to US President Donald Trump has been found guilty for perpetrating a decade-long, multimillion-dollar tax and bank fraud when he was advising Ukrainian politicians. To the puzzlement of many, he has been sentenced to 47 months…
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…
