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Macroscope Anthony Rowley

Can Japan’s Samurai bonds be a foil for China’s debt-trap diplomacy?

11 Nov 2018 - 5:04pm 16

China needs its neighbours as US threatens a new cold war

11 Nov 2018 - 1:55pm 47

Ceritalah Karim Raslan

Can mobile banking overcome Myanmar’s trust issues?

6 Nov 2018 - 10:28am

Nitin Pangarkar

Nitin Pangarkar

Hype over Dyson’s Singapore electric car plant is load of hot air

1 Nov 2018 - 7:32am 10

More on Malaysia 1MDB scandal

International

New York’s Park Hotel can be sold after 1MDB fugitive drops claims

20 Nov, 6:43pm 2

Southeast Asia

Goldman Sachs ‘cheated’ Malaysia over 1MDB saga: Prime Minister Mahathir

14 Nov, 12:37am 17

Southeast Asia

Malaysia seeking ‘full refund’ from Goldman Sachs for 1MDB deals

12 Nov, 10:35pm 9

Southeast Asia

Singapore and Facebook clash over ‘false and malicious’ blog post

10 Nov, 9:39pm 7

Southeast Asia

More 1MDB secrets to emerge from Hong Kong, Singapore

9 Nov, 6:58am 18

More on Lee Kuan Yew

Politics

‘Lee Kuan Yew floated the idea of a nudist colony on Sentosa’

3 Nov, 9:45am 23

Politics

‘3 Lees is too much’: Singapore’s Goh Chok Tong on leading after LKY

3 Nov, 5:35pm 73

Politics

Singapore’s political succession: big reveal when PAP meets

3 Nov, 8:02am 3

Opinion

Singapore’s strong leadership leaves Hong Kong dragging behind

15 Sep, 9:14pm 112

Southeast Asia

Singapore court says PM’s nephew can fight contempt-case order

3 Sep, 10:05pm 1

Letters

Xi Jinping won’t be the first world leader with no term limits

11 Mar, 11:07pm 4

Opinion

Chinese, Indian toilet revolutions look to Singapore’s bottom line

9 Dec, 10:00am 14

More on Thailand's Junta

Southeast Asia

Beauty queen, pro-golfer, veteran MP sign up for Thai election battle

19 Nov, 9:21pm

Southeast Asia

Young Thai rappers deliver blistering critiques of ruling junta

13 Nov, 9:26pm 1

Southeast Asia

Thai junta seeks to curtail support for Shinawatras before election

13 Nov, 9:26pm

Opinion

Is Bangkok art centre funding cut politically motivated?

2 Nov, 1:00pm

Southeast Asia

Thailand eyes becoming first Asian country to legalise medical marijuana

1 Nov, 9:01pm 1

Southeast Asia

Thai rappers’ rhymes rile military rulers as music video goes viral

27 Oct, 8:57pm 1

Religion is a deeply sensitive issue in Malaysia, where more than 60 per cent of the population is Muslim. Photo: EPA

Four Finns detained in Muslim Malaysia over ‘Christian pamphlets’

If found guilty, the two men and two women aged between 27 and 60 could be jailed for between two and five years

21 Nov 2018 - 6:08pm More on Malaysia

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Baby dies in Bali after American woman throws it, then herself, from a moving car: police

Baby dies in Bali after US woman throws it from a moving car

21 Nov 2018 - 5:27pm 1

Ikea has more than 400 outlets in more than 50 countries. It posted retail sales of US$44 billion in the year to August 31. Photo: Reuters

World’s biggest Ikea store will open in the Philippines in 2020

21 Nov 2018 - 2:07pm

Boeing’s first 737 MAX 9 jet at the company's delivery centre before a ceremony transferring ownership to Thai Lion Air in Seattle. Photo: AP

Lion Air crash: Boeing promises to reveal findings of investigation

21 Nov 2018 - 2:18pm

Vice-presidential candidate Sandiaga Uno (left) with his running mate Prabowo Subianto (holding microphone) are taking on President Joko Widodo and his VP Ma’ruf Amin. Photo: EPA

In Indonesia, it’s Sandiaga vs Widodo over the economy

21 Nov 2018 - 9:11am

Thai customs officers stand behind the seized rhino horns. Photo: AP

Thai court jails three for smuggling US$1.4 million of rhino horns

20 Nov 2018 - 11:56pm 2

Researchers collect data about the whale carcass. Photo: AP

Dead whale washes ashore in Indonesia with a stomach full of plastic waste

20 Nov 2018 - 11:40pm 3

An Indonesian worker holds a mobile phone inside a train in Jakarta, Indonesia in 2016. The prevalence of mobile technology in Southeast Asia has raised concerns about affordability of high-speed internet. Photo: EPA

Fast Wi-fi and e-commerce: Southeast Asian cities seek smart solutions

21 Nov 2018 - 3:20pm

Amirrudin Hud Rashid Milson was voted Malaysia’s most eligible bachelor by popular women’s magazine Cleo in 2010. Photo: Handout

Malaysia’s ‘most eligible bachelor’ dies fighting for IS

21 Nov 2018 - 10:39am 34

A Scorpene-class submarine of the type involved in the investigation. Photo: Reuters

Malaysia’s former PM Najib Razak questioned over submarine deal

21 Nov 2018 - 10:47am 3

Illegal scavengers are often tolerated by Myanmar’s big jade mining companies once the machines fall silent. Photo: Reuters

Jade scavenger shot dead by mine security guard in Myanmar

20 Nov 2018 - 5:04pm

East Asia Summit leaders during their meeting in Singapore. Photo: EPA

Indonesia’s Indo-Pacific vision offers an alternative to picking sides

20 Nov 2018 - 12:05pm 6

Students wear virtual reality goggles during a science class. Photo: AP

Tech giants to help train 20 million Southeast Asians by 2020

20 Nov 2018 - 2:53pm

President Rodrigo Duterte accompanied by businessman Michael Yang (second right) in Beijing. Photo: Reuters

Duterte’s Chinese adviser: proof of Beijing’s pull on Philippines?

20 Nov 2018 - 7:40pm 30

Indonesian intelligence agency uncovers mosques spreading radicalism to government workers

Indonesian mosques found spreading radicalism to government workers

20 Nov 2018 - 2:12am 4

US Vice-President Mike Pence. Photo: AFP

Trump’s absence at summits brought substance of policy into focus

19 Nov 2018 - 9:21pm 40

Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen arrives for the 12th Asia-Europe Meeting Summit in Brussels. He said on social media there would be no Chinese naval base on Cambodian soil after receiving a letter from US Vice-President Mike Pence. Photo: Xinhua

‘No foreign troops on Cambodian soil’: Hun Sen says no China base here

19 Nov 2018 - 10:20pm 3

Rohingya refugees shout slogans during a protest against a disputed repatriation programme at a refugee camp near Teknaf, Bangladesh. Photo: EPA

Bangladesh to try repatriate Rohingya in new year after mass protests

19 Nov 2018 - 8:22pm

If Duterte’s so proud of firing corrupt officials, why hire them?

Duterte’s proud of firing corrupt officials. So why hire them?

19 Nov 2018 - 12:05pm 9

Members of the Trial Chamber of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia announce the verdicts against former Khmer Rouge leaders Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea. Photo: EPA

After genocide conviction, Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge tribunal is done

19 Nov 2018 - 8:22pm

File photo of beauty queen turned politician Nahatai Lekbumrung. Photo: handout

Beauty queen, pro-golfer, veteran MP sign up for Thai election battle

19 Nov 2018 - 9:21pm

Damaged houses and debris following flash floods and landslides in the Phuoc Dong commune of central Vietnam’s Khanh Hoa province on November 18, 2018. Photo: AFP

At least a dozen dead in central Vietnam flash floods and landslides

18 Nov 2018 - 10:46pm

Officials and Rice Barrels (1911). Photo: Handout

The Chinese cartoons with a revolutionary message for Singapore

19 Nov 2018 - 12:17pm 4

A growing number of Chinese companies are evading US President Donald Trump’s tariffs by shifting production overseas to countries such as Vietnam. Photo: AFP

Here’s who wins and also loses in US-China trade war: Vietnam

20 Nov 2018 - 4:03am 20

China’s state media criticised Guilin University of Electronic Technology’s plan to scrutinise students’ electronic devices. Photo: Handout

University’s plan to screen phones, tablets slammed by state media

18 Nov 2018 - 12:02pm 4

Firefighters battle a blaze during the Surabaya terror attacks in May. Photo: AFP

Surabaya redux: terror time bomb fear as Indonesia frees extremists

18 Nov 2018 - 8:00am

A crane boat raising the tour boat Phoenix from the sea floorin Phuket, Thailand, on Saturday. The boat sank over four months ago in rough weather killing 47 Chinese tourists. Photo: AP

Thai authorities retrieve ship from fatal Phuket capsizing

18 Nov 2018 - 4:20am

Former First Lady Imelda Marcos. Photo: Xinhua

How the law finally caught up with Imelda Marcos

18 Nov 2018 - 12:41pm 24

A man cleans a skull near a mass grave at the Chaung Ek torture camp run by the Khmer Rouge. The last surviving leaders of the communist Khmer Rouge regime that brutally ruled Cambodia in the 1970s were convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes by an international tribunal. Photo: AP

Was Cambodia’s US$300 million Khmer Rouge tribunal worth it?

19 Nov 2018 - 9:20am 5