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Beyond metrics: Is Singapore’s fixation with measuring everything holding it back?

By turning life into a scorecard, Singapore may be losing the incentive to come up with innovations whose impact cannot yet be measured.

Singapore is very good at assessing students and workers relative to each other, says the writer.

Modern warfare offers important AI lessons for enterprises

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Teen caught vaping? For desperate parents, a supportive approach makes all the difference

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How Israel is frustrating Donald Trump’s Iran plans

Why the film industry needs franchises like Star Wars

AI companions are coming. Privacy rules are not ready

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China’s surprise blockbuster Dear You is a love letter to the Nanyang generation

The story of Nanyang migration is a story of poverty, separation and survival; of men leaving for places they know little about.

What Dear You, China’s surprise blockbuster of the year, does is rewind the clock to remind audiences that before there was prosperity, there was hardship.

Is the search for perfection delaying marriage in Singapore?

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Trump’s regime change playbook: The Cuba chapter

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How real is the threat of a ‘neo-militarist’ Japan?

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The real question for Singaporeans: Hungry for what?

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Want to know what’s really going on in our children’s lives? Cook for them

Saturdays start with a morning trip to the wet market, and end with a table of hungry teenagers. There’s no bigger delight than that.

Conversations over dinner have inculcated open communication in his family, says the writer.

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They cleaned our estate for years. A final meal made us neighbours

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Without chilli, food just isn’t the same

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My students left my classroom. They didn’t leave my life

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Teen caught vaping? For desperate parents, a supportive approach makes all the difference

In Singapore's war against vaping, there is a growing recognition that youth addiction cannot be addressed through punishment alone, says the writer.

Modern warfare offers important AI lessons for enterprises

The ability of AI systems to bring fragmented data together into one coherent view is critical for enterprises navigating increasingly complex digital environments, says the writer.

Beyond metrics: Is Singapore’s fixation with measuring everything holding it back?

Singapore is very good at assessing students and workers relative to each other, says the writer.

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Why the film industry needs franchises like Star Wars

FILE PHOTO: Grogu attends a premiere for the film Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu at TCL Chinese theatre in Los Angeles, California, U.S., May 14, 2026. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/File Photo

How Israel is frustrating Donald Trump’s Iran plans

The American president does not want to see a renewal of the war that America and Israel fought together against Iran for 40 days.

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