Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong congratulated Chinese President Xi Jinping today (25 Oct) on his re-election as General Secretary of the Communist Party of China.
In a congratulatory letter, Mr Lee said he was confident that under the leadership...
On May 15, a 53-year-old woman died after being hit by a piece of broken statue which fell from the top of the Arulmigu Visalatchi Sametha Kasi Visvanathar Temple tower in Ipoh, Malaysia.
The tragic incident happened after a crane...
Anthony Albanese, 59, led the Labor Party to victory on Saturday, ending almost a decade of conservative rule in Australia. Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong congratulated Albanese on his election win saying he looks forward to working with...
Dr Tomoya Obokata, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, Tweeted on 6 April that he issued country visit request to Singapore and that he looks forward to receiving positive responses from the Singapore Government to conduct...
India expects to lead the world in economic growth this year in a post-pandemic bounceback, government forecasts showed Monday, but with expansion slowing despite widespread vaccine coverage and recovering exports.
Covid pummelled Asia's third-largest economy, which suffered its worst recession...
Hong Kong's courts jailed two people for publishing seditious content on Monday, the first time the colonial-era law has been used to secure a conviction for printed content since the city's 1997 handover to China.
Sedition is a throwback to...
A US rights monitor raised the alarm Monday over athletes' safety at China's upcoming Winter Olympics, after the host authorities threatened "punishment" for anti-Beijing comments.
The Congressional-Executive Commission on China -- a group of Washington lawmakers and White House officials...
The United States is paying athletes to "create disturbances" during the Beijing Winter Olympics, Chinese state media reported Saturday.
The accusations come just a week before the start of the most politicised Games in recent memory and immediately drew a...
South Korean tech giant Samsung has pulled an online advert in Singapore that featured a hijab-wearing Muslim woman hugging her drag queen son after it sparked a backlash from socially conservative corners.
LGBTQ rights remain a sensitive topic in the...
By Laurie Chen and AFP reporters
A growing number of Western nations and cybersecurity groups have issued digital surveillance warnings for next month's Winter Olympics in Beijing, with some advising foreign athletes to leave personal phones and laptops at home.
China...
