Johor has highest number of places with unhealthy air quality.
Oct 8, 2026
Singapore has pledged nearly S$70,000 (US$54,700) in support for every child, but long working hours and education pressure are keeping many young couples from becoming parents.
British University Vietnam (BUV) and Manchester Metropolitan University have expanded their partnership to integrate workplace experience into academic programs and strengthen graduate employability in Vietnam.
PARLIAMENT | They ask how enforcement authorities can apply requirements such as labelling to online sellers.
The Philippines is “resigned” to managing its long-standing dispute with Beijing in the South China Sea and avoiding dangerous escalations, President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr said on Thursday. At the Forbes Global CEO Conference in Singapore, Marcos said: “I don’t know if we can find a resolution to the problem, but we are resigned to just being able to manage the problem, so that we do not have mistakes, we do not have misinterpretations. “My greatest fear is that some seaman, some soldier, just...
Ho Chi Minh City has addressed flooding in many places, yet its fragmented infrastructure, delayed works, and increasing rainfall and high tides mean many areas still suffer from severe waterlogging.
Singapore's air pollution ranked the worst among the world's major cities on Oct. 7 as haze from Indonesian wildfires blanketed the region and prompted the neighboring Malaysian state of Johor to shut all its schools for two days.
UPDATED 6.45PM | Education Ministry must take this matter seriously, His Majesty says.
Chew Kin Wah spent seven seasons gracing Malaysian television screens as “Kee Tat” in the hit sitcom Kopitiam in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Now 61, the Malaysian actor is still working, albeit more selectively, taking projects when the right offers land on his table. “There is no thought of retiring when you are doing something you enjoy,” he told This Week in Asia, adding: “Money helps. Never fight with money.” For Chew, working beyond 60 is a choice. But for many Malaysians, the question...
A care scandal has erupted in Thailand after a nursing home was exposed for confining old and sick residents in beds covered by iron cages with barely a foot of space above their heads. Images of bedridden patients at the Sothornchai Nursing Home in Kanchanaburi, western Thailand, have shocked Thais since they were shared earlier this week on the television current affairs show Hone Krasae. Thailand is projected to be a super-ageing society in the coming years, with authorities warning of a care...
A legal challenge to the vice-presidency of Indonesia’s Gibran Rakabuming Raka could haunt his political future even though he has survived damning court findings on his educational qualifications. The Constitutional Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition to unseat the son of former president Joko Widodo, ruling that the plaintiffs lacked legal standing. But it also found no convincing evidence that Gibran’s overseas education met the minimum high-school qualification required for presidential...
Court challenge looms as former state excos contest their removal.
Power seems to be concentrated in the finance minister's hands, and transparency is often lacking.
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