What Happened? On Thursday, September 20, the committee on Deliberate Online Falsehoods (DOFs) put up a set of 22 recommendations which include both legislative and non-legislative measures. While not many details on concrete measures were given, the consensus agreed upon by the committee was…
What happened? On the 12th to 14th of September, more than 4000 delegates from 27 megacities around the world convened on San Francisco for the Global Climate Action Summit. Their five key main pillars were focused on healthy energy systems, inclusive economic systems, sustainable…
What happened? On May 13, Corporal (CPL) Kok Yuen Chin drowned in a pump well after being pushed in by his squad mates to celebrate his ORD. CPL Kok was to ORD in three days’ time on May 16. At that time, the 12-metre-deep…
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…
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…
What Happened? President Donald J. Trump has threatened to leave the WTO according to reasons that include unfair treatment by the international body. This comes as no surprise – after all, his protectionist trade policies often contradict the open-trade ethos of the WTO. In…
What happened? Malaysia Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad met up with former Singaporean political dissident Tan Wah Piow and several other Singaporeans last Thursday (Aug 30) in Kuala Lumpur. The meeting ended off with an invitation for Dr Mahathir to give a keynote address at…
What Happened? Starting from September 1 2019, it will be illegal for organisations to collect, use, disclose or make illegal copies of an individual’s NRIC. Under the Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) (yup the same organisation that made collecting data for orientation stricter), organisations…
