These are the top stories making the front pages of major newspapers from across Southeast Asia today.Get up to speed with what’s happening in the fastest growing region in the world.2020 Budget: Have GST at 3pct, say expertsThe possible reintroduction of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) could be used as a stabilisation policy when the country’s economy faces strong headwinds, experts said.

These are the top stories making the front pages of major newspapers from across Southeast Asia today.Get up to speed with what’s happening in the fastest growing region in the world. Singapore on track to service, maintain new trainsNew trains to ply the North-South and East-West MRT lines and the revamped Bukit Panjang LRT system are set to be serviced in Singapore.This is a key step towards becoming self-sufficient in this field and bringing jobs and savings to Singapore, while cu

These are the top stories making the front pages of major newspapers from across Southeast Asia today. Get up to speed with what’s happening in the fastest growing region in the world.

Emphasising peaceful development, Chinese President Xi Jinping used his speech at today’s 70th National Day military parade in Beijing to remind the world of its rise as a global superpower.“There is no force that can shake the foundation of this great nation,” Xi said.“No force can stop the Chinese people and the Chinese nation forging ahead.”For the past 70 years, this has largely been true – and ASEAN has learnt to live with that.The People’s Republic of China was created on 1 October, 194

These are the top stories making the front pages of major newspapers from across Southeast Asia today.Get up to speed with what’s happening in the fastest growing region in the world.Saving our rhino: Iman's egg successfully retrieved for IVF treatmentAn egg has been successfully retrieved from Malaysia’s last female Sumatran rhino to be used for in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment in order to save the species from extinction.The process of retrieving the egg from Iman was done by a t

The 2018 Revision of World Urbanization Prospects produced by the Population Division of the United Nations (UN) Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) states that 55 percent of the world’s population lives in urban areas, a proportion that is expected to increase to 68 percent by 2050.A populous city could mean an increase in vehicles on its roads.

These are the top stories making the front pages of major newspapers from across Southeast Asia today. Get up to speed with what’s happening in the fastest growing region in the world. Practices of online travel booking sites flagged Some Singaporeans paid more than they bargained for when booking their holidays, misled by pricing and marketing practices commonly used by online travel booking providers.The Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore (CCCS) flag

A smart city is an urban area that uses technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and big data to efficiently manage its assets, ultimately enhancing its residents’ quality of life.Reduced congestion, pollution control and better energy efficiency are just some of the many advantages of living in a smart city – and ASEAN has 26 of them now under its ASEAN Smart Cities Network (ASCN) pilot cities initiative.But as appealing as better air quality and less traffic jams may be to the regi

There is a downward trend in the number of women participating in the workforce as they go up the career ladder. Women may make up half of all the entry-level positions in companies, but at middle management, that number drops.

These are the top stories making the front pages of major newspapers from across Southeast Asia today. Get up to speed with what’s happening in the fastest growing region in the world. Li Shengwu hires top UK lawyer to fight contempt of court case The nephew of Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Li Shengwu, has hired a top British lawyer to advise him in his contempt of court case.Queen's Counsel David Pannick is one of the lawyers who won a landmark cas