Disruption

SIA’s Singapore-Japan flights rescheduled as Storm Jangmi approaches

A flight departures board showing a cancelled flight to Okinawa, at Haneda Airport on June 1. More than 320 flights have been cancelled because of Typhoon Jangmi.

Am I lower-value human capital?

Bill Winters, chief executive of Standard Chartered bank, gifted the phrase “lower-value human capital” to public discourse as he explained how AI would allow the replacement of back-office jobs

Salesforce revenue forecast disappoints amid AI disruption fears

Shares of the business software provider have dropped nearly 33 per cent so far in 2026, after falling more than 20 per cent in 2025.

Tax software firm Intuit to cut 17% of workforce or nearly 3,000 jobs as focus shifts to AI

Investor worries over AI’s potential to disrupt Intuit’s tax software business have sent its shares down 42 per cent in 2026.

Qantas flight to Dallas diverted after man bites flight attendant

A Qantas flight from Melbourned to Dallas was forced to make a stop-off in French Polynesia to offload a disruptive passenger.

Economic Strategy Review

Workers in Singapore at risk of disruption could be offered ‘career bridges’ into other jobs

Generic of office workers at Raffles Place on May 12, 2026. Can be used for stories on Economic Strategy Review (ESR), economy, workers, workforce. ST PHOTO: BRIAN TEO

Anthropic launches slew of AI finance tools as CEO warns some software firms will ‘go bust’

Hardly a year into unveiling ambitions to tailor AI for finance, Anthropic has rapidly expanded its business, with adoption by Goldman Sachs, Visa, Citi, AIG and others.

Two Gaza aid flotilla activists brought in for questioning, says Israel

A coast guard vessel carrying activists of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, intercepted by the Israeli Navy, to a port in Crete on May 1. Israel said two of them were linked with a US-sanctioned group.

From surplus to strain: Global rice supply threatened by Iran war, El Nino

FILE PHOTO: A worker cultivates rice plants at a farm in Bangkok, Thailand, August 28, 2018. Picture taken August 28, 2018. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun/File Photo

Madagascar detains French former serviceman over alleged mutiny plot

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