SINGAPORE – A proposed law to fight fake news has been in the spotlight recently, raising a number of questions about how it looks in practice.  What counts as fake news? And when can a person be penalised? Home Affairs and Law Minister K. Shanmugam examined four different hypothetical scenarios, and whether they are covered […]

Coffee with Claressa: Discussing World Immunisation Week and the efficacy of flu shots 20:07 mins Synopsis: World Immunisation Week in the last week of April was a week of discussion and sharing the importance of immunisation. This year’s theme Protected Together: Vaccines Work is timely in light of the recent rise in measles cases in the […]

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Chinese investors maneuvered around heightened geopolitical tensions to make record-level investments into U.S. startups in 2018, but increasingly hostile conditions will likely lead to a dropoff in Chinese funding for this year, according to a new report. Chinese entities invested $3.6 billion last year in U.S. companies, exceeding the previous record […]

It is hard to be heard in a country of more than a billion people. But one young, charismatic man – a member of India’s lowest caste, the Dalits (formerly “untouchables”) – is hoping to do just that in the general election. Chandrashekhar Azad is taking on India’s powerful Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his […]

KARAULI, INDIA (REUTERS) – Farm labourer Dharmendra Meena’s first year of marriage with his wife Vaijanti in northwest India was “beautiful and carefree”. But their first pregnancy changed everything. First came the infection during childbirth, then the stark choice presented by a visiting doctor: undergo a “life-saving” hysterectomy – the removal of her uterus and […]

WASHINGTON (WASHINGTON POST) – President Donald Trump’s brinkmanship with China this week represents a test of his administration’s tougher foreign policy toward the East Asian power as he seeks to clinch a hard-fought trade deal while preserving Beijing’s cooperation on North Korea. Trump’s threats to impose another round of punishing tariffs on Chinese imports upended […]

LONDON (Reuters) – While Britain debates the merits of a second Brexit referendum, London’s financial center is steering clear of the argument, resigned to the need to shift some business elsewhere. Burned by backing the ill-fated Remain campaign three years ago, major global and British banks told Reuters they would shy away from taking a […]

Indian police briefly detained more than 50 women protesting at the Supreme Court, a day after the chief justice was cleared of sexual harassment. The activists had gathered outside the court in the capital Delhi to demand a fair inquiry into the allegations. Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi has called the allegations “false” and an attempt […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Reserve does not see a good case for raising or lowering interest rates and its current policy stance could help inflation move toward the central bank’s 2 percent target, Fed Vice Chair Richard Clarida said on Tuesday. “We don’t see a strong case to move rates in either direction,” […]

BANGKOK — Tuesday brought rare good news from Myanmar: Photographs and videos of two beaming journalists, reunited with their wives and young children after spending 16 months in prison. The release of the journalists, U Wa Lone and U Kyaw Soe Oo, who were detained for covering Myanmar’s deadly crackdown on the Rohingya minority group, […]