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National University of Singapore (NUS)

National University of Singapore (NUS): A prominent Singapore-based public research university, NUS is dedicated to providing world-class education and high-impact research with a focus on Asian perspectives. Headquartered in Singapore across three main campuses, it offers diverse undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in fields like engineering, medicine, law, and business. NUS is renowned for its significant contributions to research in areas such as Smart Nation initiatives, biomedical science, and sustainability. Consistently ranked among the top global universities, NUS is recognised for nurturing leaders and driving societal impact through its commitment to innovation and enterprise.

A sign displays the US national debt at a bus stop in Washington on Thursday. Similar signs have been put up across the country, made by a nonpartisan foundation. Photo: Getty Images via AFP

US debt ceiling

America’s US$40 trillion debt gamble is getting harder to ignore: economists

Analysts warn that high spending, rising interest costs and tax cuts could impede Washington’s efforts to ‘grow our way out of’ record-high national debt.

24 Aug 2026 - 9:00PM

Singapore

Singapore relaxes screening of dialect films after Dear You film spurs debate

24 Aug 2026 - 12:01AM

Myanmar

Asian Angle | SpaceX’s Starlink blackout punishes Myanmar civilians, not just cybercriminals

22 Aug 2026 - 12:00PM

Malaysia

Anwar’s Taiwan remarks put Malaysia’s Beijing calculus in focus

Analysts say the comments did not change Malaysia’s one-China policy, but could reinforce perceptions of closer alignment with Beijing.

20 Aug 2026 - 7:37PM

Malaysia Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim during an event in December 2025. Photo: EPA

Singapore

Singapore’s universities race to embrace AI as job demands transform

More employers are emphasising AI literacy and are willing to pay more for graduates with the relevant skills, analysts say.

19 Aug 2026 - 3:36PMvideocam

China’s Communist Party

Open Questions | Wang Gungwu on lessons of Chinese history and Cold War

Historian says the past holds the keys to the future, both for Chinese as they seek further socioeconomic progress and for US as it looks to undermine China.

7 Aug 2026 - 10:57AMvideocam

Singapore

Losing religion, not belief: Singapore’s fluid spiritual shift

Formal religious affiliation has been slipping in the city state, but surveys show belief in a higher power endures.

2 Aug 2026 - 11:00AM

Devotees burn incense at a Taoist temple with Buddhist elements on Singapore’s Kusu island in 2023. Photo: AFP

China-India relations

India and China revive Himalayan trade at high-altitude pass

Six years after Nathu La’s closure and the deadly Galwan border clashes, its reopening throws local traders a lifeline.

1 Aug 2026 - 1:00PM

Indonesia

Why Indonesia needs legal trust, not tax cuts, to build a finance hub

From Singapore to Dubai, global capital favours predictable courts over tax breaks. Experts say Jakarta should take note.

27 Jul 2026 - 8:00AM

US-China relations

China’s cyberscam crackdown pushed syndicates to target Americans: analysts

Beijing curbed attacks on Chinese victims, but criminal networks shifted abroad as scams spread into a global industry.

23 Jul 2026 - 5:56AMvideocam

A UN report estimates victims of Asia-Pacific online scams lost up to US$114.1 billion last year. Photo: Getty Images

Singapore

Is super-ageing Singapore headed for population decline?

With babies in short supply and its birth rate tanking, the city state is weighing a future of robots and immigrants.

4 Jul 2026 - 8:00AMvideocam

Singapore

Singapore’s migrant worker wage saga spotlights potential loopholes

Analysts point to laws that empower employers over migrant workers, who could face job loss and repatriation in any wage dispute.

29 Jun 2026 - 5:47PM

US-China relations

Trump thinks he is playing hardball. But China is playing Trump: analysts

Analysts say modest meeting outcomes and shrinking institutional channels leave diplomacy unduly reliant on the leaders’ personal rapport.

27 Jun 2026 - 5:02AMvideocam

Singapore

Singapore aims to lead Asia’s wellness race with US$770 million complex

The Therme wellness hub is set to draw 2 million visitors annually as competition heats up in the regional tourism sector.

24 Jun 2026 - 11:25PM

Singapore

Sin to salvation: how Singapore’s most notorious mall found God

Orchard Towers, once a byword for vice, is now part of a megachurch trend repurposing retail spaces from Jakarta to Kuala Lumpur.

1 Jul 2026 - 2:35AM

Orchard Towers in Singapore pictured on Friday. Cornerstone Community Church officially opened weekly services at the Orchard Road landmark in January. Photo: Jean Iau

Education in Hong Kong

Hong Kong’s HKU and CUHK among world’s top 20 universities – a first for city

UK-based education analysis firm Quacquarelli Symonds says city has Asia’s most improved higher education system for second consecutive year.

18 Jun 2026 - 10:52AM

Singapore

More than grades? The Harvard speech reshaping Singapore’s education debate

Observers say the challenge for Singapore’s educators is to ensure that upward mobility for students maturing later is not impossible.

17 Jun 2026 - 8:36PMvideocam

Taiwan

What’s behind Beijing’s seabed mapping east of Taiwan?

Expert says knowledge of the waters and seabed could allow ‘more effective submarine and anti-submarine operations’.

11 Jun 2026 - 11:34PMvideocam

Beijing’s Haixun 08 vessel – China’s largest and most advanced survey ship – conducted survey operations covering 1,025 nautical miles during the five-day operation. Photo: Handout

Singapore

Singapore’s ban on anti-Indian posts exposes threat of race ‘weaponisation’

The posts from a China-based platform have sought to tap into unease on unemployment and ‘play on existing prejudices’, an analyst says.

10 Jun 2026 - 5:36PM

Singapore

US price-fixing probe on Singaporean tycoon signals consistent legal approach

Teo Siong Seng, CEO of a major container manufacturer, is named by the US as one of shipping executives allegedly involved in price-fixing.

29 May 2026 - 2:40PM

Malaysia

‘Tiger without fangs’: Malaysia navy faces turbulence over Norway’s missile ban

While Malaysia considers alternatives from ‘three to four countries’, analysts say an advanced missile system is crucial for its navy.

28 May 2026 - 5:48PM

A test launch of a Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace naval strike missile from a ship. Photo: Kongsberg

China-EU relations

European leaders get ready to ‘act now’ amid rising fears of ‘China shock 2.0’

Ahead of a key debate on Friday, most commissioners said to support a more robust stance and broader use of safeguard measures.

28 May 2026 - 1:00PM

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is among those in support of a stronger trade and industrial policy. Photo: EPA

China-India relations

What India’s ‘unsinkable aircraft carrier’ near Malacca means for its China ties

Uncertainty over Strait of Hormuz amid US-Iran conflict has New Delhi moving on US$10 billion plan to transform Great Nicobar Island.

28 May 2026 - 5:21PMvideocam

Singapore

Why Singapore wants to become the world’s ‘living lab’ for physical AI

These machines are set to complement humans in the workplace, but safety should be a priority for their deployment, analysts say.

22 May 2026 - 5:21PMvideocam

Indonesia

Indonesia’s oil hub pitch collides with Asean’s trust deficit

Joint energy security is easy to endorse in principle, yet the bloc has a stubborn record of leaving its emergency frameworks untouched.

19 May 2026 - 3:13PM

Oil tankers and cargo ships are seen at the oil depot and container terminal of Tanjung Priok Port in Jakarta, Indonesia, on March 31. Photo: AFP/Getty Images/TNS

History

Opinion | The West was never the whole world. It’s time to move on

As Asia reclaims its roots, the burden of reinvention now falls on the West. Its brief era of supremacy was a historical aberration.

17 May 2026 - 9:25AMvideocam

People walk past a television screen in Beijing broadcasting US President Donald Trump’s visit to China on Thursday. Photo: EPA

Science

Top Singapore-based physicist moves to China after superconductor breakthrough

Prominent young professor becomes doctoral supervisor at leading Chinese research university amid high-level recruitment drive.

15 May 2026 - 4:44PMvideocam

Singapore

Why flood of AI deepfakes is accusing Singapore of being ‘ungrateful’ to China

Clips on Chinese social media showing speakers disparaging the city state are likely to be deepfakes, experts say.

12 May 2026 - 2:41PMvideocam

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National University of Singapore (NUS)

America’s US$40 trillion debt gamble is getting harder to ignore: economists

Analysts warn that high spending, rising interest costs and tax cuts could impede Washington’s efforts to ‘grow our way out of’ record-high national debt.

Singapore relaxes screening of dialect films after Dear You film spurs debate

.css-1pcrwvc{color:#2aa191;}Asian Angle | SpaceX’s Starlink blackout punishes Myanmar civilians, not just cybercriminals

Anwar’s Taiwan remarks put Malaysia’s Beijing calculus in focus

Analysts say the comments did not change Malaysia’s one-China policy, but could reinforce perceptions of closer alignment with Beijing.

Singapore’s universities race to embrace AI as job demands transform

More employers are emphasising AI literacy and are willing to pay more for graduates with the relevant skills, analysts say.

.css-1f6sr3w{color:#727272;}Open Questions | Wang Gungwu on lessons of Chinese history and Cold War

Historian says the past holds the keys to the future, both for Chinese as they seek further socioeconomic progress and for US as it looks to undermine China.

Losing religion, not belief: Singapore’s fluid spiritual shift

Formal religious affiliation has been slipping in the city state, but surveys show belief in a higher power endures.

India and China revive Himalayan trade at high-altitude pass

Six years after Nathu La’s closure and the deadly Galwan border clashes, its reopening throws local traders a lifeline.

Why Indonesia needs legal trust, not tax cuts, to build a finance hub

From Singapore to Dubai, global capital favours predictable courts over tax breaks. Experts say Jakarta should take note.

China’s cyberscam crackdown pushed syndicates to target Americans: analysts

Beijing curbed attacks on Chinese victims, but criminal networks shifted abroad as scams spread into a global industry.

Is super-ageing Singapore headed for population decline?

With babies in short supply and its birth rate tanking, the city state is weighing a future of robots and immigrants.

Singapore’s migrant worker wage saga spotlights potential loopholes

Analysts point to laws that empower employers over migrant workers, who could face job loss and repatriation in any wage dispute.

Trump thinks he is playing hardball. But China is playing Trump: analysts

Analysts say modest meeting outcomes and shrinking institutional channels leave diplomacy unduly reliant on the leaders’ personal rapport.

Singapore aims to lead Asia’s wellness race with US$770 million complex

The Therme wellness hub is set to draw 2 million visitors annually as competition heats up in the regional tourism sector.

Sin to salvation: how Singapore’s most notorious mall found God

Orchard Towers, once a byword for vice, is now part of a megachurch trend repurposing retail spaces from Jakarta to Kuala Lumpur.

Hong Kong’s HKU and CUHK among world’s top 20 universities – a first for city

UK-based education analysis firm Quacquarelli Symonds says city has Asia’s most improved higher education system for second consecutive year.

More than grades? The Harvard speech reshaping Singapore’s education debate

Observers say the challenge for Singapore’s educators is to ensure that upward mobility for students maturing later is not impossible.

What’s behind Beijing’s seabed mapping east of Taiwan?

Expert says knowledge of the waters and seabed could allow ‘more effective submarine and anti-submarine operations’.

Singapore’s ban on anti-Indian posts exposes threat of race ‘weaponisation’

The posts from a China-based platform have sought to tap into unease on unemployment and ‘play on existing prejudices’, an analyst says.

US price-fixing probe on Singaporean tycoon signals consistent legal approach

Teo Siong Seng, CEO of a major container manufacturer, is named by the US as one of shipping executives allegedly involved in price-fixing.

‘Tiger without fangs’: Malaysia navy faces turbulence over Norway’s missile ban

While Malaysia considers alternatives from ‘three to four countries’, analysts say an advanced missile system is crucial for its navy.

European leaders get ready to ‘act now’ amid rising fears of ‘China shock 2.0’

Ahead of a key debate on Friday, most commissioners said to support a more robust stance and broader use of safeguard measures.

What India’s ‘unsinkable aircraft carrier’ near Malacca means for its China ties

Uncertainty over Strait of Hormuz amid US-Iran conflict has New Delhi moving on US$10 billion plan to transform Great Nicobar Island.

Why Singapore wants to become the world’s ‘living lab’ for physical AI

These machines are set to complement humans in the workplace, but safety should be a priority for their deployment, analysts say.

Indonesia’s oil hub pitch collides with Asean’s trust deficit

Joint energy security is easy to endorse in principle, yet the bloc has a stubborn record of leaving its emergency frameworks untouched.

Opinion | The West was never the whole world. It’s time to move on

As Asia reclaims its roots, the burden of reinvention now falls on the West. Its brief era of supremacy was a historical aberration.

Top Singapore-based physicist moves to China after superconductor breakthrough

Prominent young professor becomes doctoral supervisor at leading Chinese research university amid high-level recruitment drive.

Why flood of AI deepfakes is accusing Singapore of being ‘ungrateful’ to China

Clips on Chinese social media showing speakers disparaging the city state are likely to be deepfakes, experts say.

Asian Angle | SpaceX’s Starlink blackout punishes Myanmar civilians, not just cybercriminals

Open Questions | Wang Gungwu on lessons of Chinese history and Cold War