Playwright Chong Tze Chien starts his tenure at the Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA) at a crossroads.

MOSCOW/WASHINGTON - Russia and Ukraine confirmed on May 8 that they had agreed to a US-brokered three-day ceasefire that will run from May 9 to May 11, and US President Donald Trump said he hoped it ...

Leading diversified professional services and investment management company, Colliers , today announced that the U.S. division of its Engineering segment has entered into a definitive agreement to ...

Rabaul was one of Japan’s most powerful bases in the South Pacific, packed with troops, airfields, tunnels, artillery, and ...

The Indian and Pacific oceans cover roughly half the globe and are dotted with strategically valuable islands. Who has what ...

True quality of life isn't found in a spreadsheet of economic output but in the details of daily existence. This ranking ...

Lynette Ramsay Silver’s work on ‘unknown’ POWs and unmarked graves has helped bring closure to bereaved families ...

Since 2000, Singapore and New Zealand have had a Free Trade Agreement, the Closer Economic Partnership, and the ‘Food for ...

But the swearing-in ceremony of Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma for the second time was a spectacular event that violated every exhortation of the PM, except perhaps not travelling abroad and ...

The Iran war and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz have triggered a major crisis in the global shipping industry by disrupting supplies of bunker fuel, the heavy, low-grade oil that powers most ...

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A Second World War veteran and former prisoner of war has celebrated his 104th birthday. Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Hutchinson, from Seahouses in Northumberland, marked the milestone with family, ...