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Criticism of Israel's captain Adam Edelman at Winter Olympics breached discrimination rules, Swiss complaints body says.

In the wrong hands, AI tools can threaten the underlying systems the internet relies on, outpacing many organisations’ capability to patch them, says an academic.

Hawker food gives generations of Singaporeans a shared sense of home. But what counts as “local food” in the first place? Food writer Pamelia Chia weighs in.

Structural ties endure, but US President Donald Trump’s flip-flopping on energy policy has done lasting damage to Washington’s relationship with New Delhi, says Chietigj Bajpaee from the Chatham House think tank.

When the cost of moving and reconciling corporate information collapses, the roles built to perform these functions must change, says Kai-Fu Lee for the Financial Times.

When sheltering from haze in indoor spaces, air filtration, cooling and ventilation need to be considered together, says SUSS’ Zuraimi Mohamed Sultan.

The election was seen as a referendum on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and it looks like Likud will remain the largest party in parliament, says NUS Middle East Institute’s Jean-Loup Samaan.

Brazil’s election outcome tests whether a renewed Monroe Doctrine can survive Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's active non-alignment, says an academic.

AI is today’s imperative. Quantum may be tomorrow’s advantage. The country must invest in both, say SGTech’s Gavin Chua and Gunasekharan Chellappan.

Holding AI risk in one's portfolio is becoming unavoidable for most investors, says an academic.

For countries facing shrinking populations, improving productivity may matter as much as increasing birth rates, say these academics.

Capacity in architectural conservation and engineering is stretched, and that can impact the quality of heritage studies, say Kevin Tan and Yeo Kang Shua from the International Council on Monuments and Sites Singapore.

A recent joint statement about overcapacity suggests a shift in how US and its trade partners are looking to respond to China Shock 2.0, says US politics observer Steven Okun.

Data centres are an unconventional military target but that may be changing as their importance grows, says an academic.

A Sydney-based worker sacked for secretly working from Singapore raises a question: Where exactly is “home” in work from home? Employers need to offer clarity, says Victor Seah of the Singapore University of Social Sciences.

There’s little prospect of true negotiation on the Ukraine war until after the winter, says Marc Champion for Bloomberg Opinion.

The discovery and fixing of critical flaws in PHP, a major programming language, should be considered a boon for the cybersecurity industry, says Dave Lee for Bloomberg Opinion.

Parents unwittingly place pressure on their children when they take leave or sabbaticals for PSLE preparation, says father-of-three Malminderjit Singh.

Among the G7, France and the US are heading into a wall, says Chris Giles for the Financial Times.

What the recent wave of protests in Europe have in common is the framing of protests as viral spectacles, staged for the cameras, digital platforms and distant audiences, says an academic.

Malaysia has repeatedly used public funds and government-backed financing to support troubled corporations. AirAsia's financial woes offer an opportunity for a fresh template, writes CNA’s Leslie Lopez.

AI firms need to invest more in discovering, tracking and - most importantly - disclosing what their agents are up to, says Catherine Thorbecke for Bloomberg Opinion.

New transparency laws aim to close the gap between Europe’s luxury heritage narrative and its Asian factory floors, says an academic.

Smith will lead Sky's home coverage and join Fox for the Black Caps in Australia.

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O’Callaghan criticised for saying ‘only cases deliberately affected by withdrawal of services in Central Criminal Court yesterday were those involving allegations of rape’