The US and its allies have too casually dismissed the findings by a joint WHO-China team that found no evidence of a lab leak. The work to trace the origins of Covid-19 should be a matter for science, not politicians who appear bent on pinning the blame on China.

The city state, a key role model for a modernising China, remains far ahead in social development and governance and continues to have lessons to share.

The course the US-China trade dispute takes will be unpredictable, but we can count on the impact on global production networks to be negative. Some are already scrambling to adjust.

It's debatable whether the ongoing five-day class boycott by students in Hong Kong should be compared with the May Fourth Movement of 1919 in Beijing.

The more than 20-year-old cross-boundary haze malady has hit Singapore again, but this time the situation is much worse, with pollution levels breaking several records.