Singapore’s grant for Taylor Swift concerts ‘nowhere as high’ as speculated, minister says
It is “nowhere as high” as reports have suggested, Minister for Culture, Community and Youth Edwin Tong said in an interview on Friday.
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Taiwanese YouTuber Chen Neng Chuan who faked his kidnapping put in Cambodia jail cell holding 150 inmates
He was sentenced to two years in prison for inciting social unrest, reported China Press. The 31-year-old has since spent 12 days in prison and was placed in a cell along with 150 other inmates.
How crypto investigators uncover scammers’ blockchain billions, scale of money laundering in Asia
Scouring digital currency exchanges for trends, Singapore-based cryptocurrency analyst Patrick Tan began to peer into an underground world of payments and wallets where Asia’s scammers, drug dealers, hackers and other criminals clean their illicit earnings.
OpenAI says in memo that Musk's claims ‘stem from Elon’s regrets’ that he’s not part of company
OpenAI executives disputed claims Elon Musk laid out in a lawsuit on Thursday, and said the Tesla CEO is upset that he's no longer part of the artificial intelligence startup.
US envoy to Singapore threatened staff, wasted money and created culture of ‘fear’, watchdog finds
The State Department’s inspector general said embassy employees interviewed as part of its regular review process “described a fear, and even direct threats, of reprisal” from Jonathan Kaplan, an entrepreneur and Democratic campaign donor who was confirmed as ambassador in late 2021.
Judge democracy on its results, not pretty-sounding ideas
The question has relevance when the US human rights organisation Freedom House warns of a “crucial test” for democracies in 2024, recording that democracy has suffered an aggregate decline in every one of the past 18 years. Its Freedom in the World Report 2024 records that political rights and civil liberties were diminished in 52 countries last year while only 21 countries experienced improvements.
Boeing is in talks to buy back fuselage maker Spirit Aerosystems after spate of quality defects
Boeing is in talks to buy back Spirit Aerosystems, which makes fuselages for Boeing's 737 Max jets, according to a person familiar with the matter, as both companies scramble to stamp out manufacturing flaws on the top-selling plane.
Japan opposition lawmakers bring no-confidence motion accusing gov’t of halting debate over scandal
TOKYO (AP) — Outraged Japanese opposition lawmakers submitted a no-confidence motion on Friday, accusing the governing party of trying to push through a budget bill without adequate debate because of disruptions caused by a scandal over its fund-raising practices.