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Malaysian Indians: A Diminishing Voice in a Changing Nation Singapore ministers to donate Bloomberg defamation damages to charity
Singapore’s Home Affairs and Law Minister K. Shanmugam and Manpower Minister Tan See Leng said on Tuesday they would donate to charity the damages awarded…
Samantha Johnson
Can Ireland Deliver as ‘Honest Broker’? Here’s What’s at Stake for Climate and Nature in EU Council Presidency
Environmental campaigners are urging Ireland to protect the public interest and resist industry pressure as the country takes up the presidency of the EU Council. The EU’s top agricultural polluter took…
2 men arrested over 123 ‘crash-for-cash’ traffic accidents in Hong Kong
Hong Kong police have arrested a 21-year-old student and a jobless 19-year-old on suspicion of deliberately causing more than 120 traffic accidents across the city…
Leonard Leo’s Anti-Climate Network Makes a European Debut
Powerful American groups linked to the Trump administration are expanding across the Atlantic, opening up offices in the U.K. and Europe, fighting climate action, waging…
Major Reform Donors Featured in Tax Haven Database
More than half (57 percent) of the donations to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK since the 2024 general election have been from individuals featured in a…
Alibaba to team up with Honor in race to build AI agentic devices
Alibaba Group Holding and Honor are set to deepen their tie-up over an operating system for AI-powered devices, as competition in the nascent “AI phone”…