The pressure is on as a record-high 12.22 million college graduates flood the job market in 2025. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Chinese warships have been circumnavigating Australia’s coastline for more than three weeks, passing within 200 miles of Sydney, and staging unprecedented live-fire drills on its doorstep with New Zealand.

A sharp fall in the number of private jets based in China in recent years shows the impact a weakening domestic economy, anti-corruption drives and the pandemic have had on the country's wealthiest, according to business aviation industry data and experts.

Chinese President Xi Jinping reads during a speech by Premier Li Qiang at the opening session of the National Peoples Congress, or NPC, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 5, 2025. Charlie Campbell is a correspondent at TIME, based in the Singapore bureau.

Singapore is probing whether Dell Technologies Inc. and Super Micro Computer Inc. servers shipped to Malaysia housed Nvidia Corp. chips barred from China, an investigation that highlights the role of middlemen in funneling high-end semiconductors.

Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu and Elon Musk have raised concerns over declining birth rates in various countries. Vembu highlights China's '996' work culture and its impact on birth rates, drawing parallels with Japan's economic struggles in the past.

On Thursday, Singaporean police arrested three men for allegedly smuggling Nvidia chips, Channel News Asia reported. The men, two Singaporeans and one Chinese citizen, were charged with fraud over a supply of servers.

Singapore authorities added fresh charges on Thursday against three men charged with server fraud, court documents showed, in a case that has drawn international attention for possible infringement of export controls.

The three were among nine people arrested during raids by the Singapore Police Force and Singapore Customs. Documentary and electronic records were seized. Two Singaporeans – Aaron Woon Guo Jie, 41, and Alan Wei Zhaolun, 49 – were charged with criminal conspiracy to commit fraud on a supplier of servers.

Above-target tax revenues have pushed the city-state back into fiscal surplus for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic.

In 2024, authorities raided a Guangdong factory producing thousands of fakes, leading to the arrest of nine individuals. Read more at straitstimes.com.