TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi told parliament on Friday (Feb 27) that she opposes changing the imperial family’s male succession rules. The comments are her clearest on the issue – the subject of increasing debate as a succession crisis looms – since her party’s landslide election victory this month. […]
Day: February 27, 2026
“We are now in a world where international relations are no longer driven primarily by rules or by attempts to achieve consensus,” the Foreign Affairs Minister says. SINGAPORE: Singapore will strengthen partnerships with middle powers and regional blocs as it navigates a “geostrategic tectonic plate rupture”, Foreign Affairs Minister Vivian […]
The service, developed in partnership with StarHub, will be available for the 2026-27 Premier League season The world’s most popular club football competition, the English Premier League, is set to launch its own direct-to-consumer streaming service in Singapore this year, with plans for potential expansion to other countries, the Financial […]
LONDON: An AI productivity boom, if it materialises, may help buy major economies more time to clean up their strained public finances, economists say, although it won’t do the heavy lifting. The stakes couldn’t be higher. Debt is above 100 per cent of output across most rich economies and set […]