SINGAPORE: Singapore will have to strengthen its cohesion and stay united in an increasingly multipolar and unpredictable world, said Foreign Affairs Minister Vivian Balakrishnan on Friday (Jan 24).

2025 is a significant year. For Singapore, it is SG60. It is also 80 years since the end of the Second World War. It is an opportune time for us to ask three sets of fundamental questions.

(JTA) — Vivian Silver, a Canadian-Israeli peace activist ... Yocheved Lifschitz, who helped ferry Palestinians from Gaza to medical care in Israel, was taken captive by Hamas and released ...

Written by renowned author and editor Koh Buck Song and launched by Singapore Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan, the book showcases the intricate process of hybridization of orchid, the national ...

Only the U.S. sides with Israel. By Farnaz Fassihi With only two days before Israel outlaws operations on its soil of the main U.N. aid agency for Palestinian refugees, the United Nations Security ...

By Isabel Kershner Reporting from Jerusalem Follow live updates on the release of Israel and Thai hostages on Thursday. Eight of the 26 hostages that Hamas is expected to release in the coming few ...

About 90 Patriot missiles from Israel are being sent to Ukraine in a transfer facilitated by the United States, according to a US defense official. The missiles had been in storage in Israel ...

Israel received a list from Hamas detailing the condition of the 26 remaining hostages scheduled to be released in the initial phase of the cease-fire between Hamas and Israel, according to a ...

Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr Vivian Balakrishnan delivers remarks at the Singapore Institute of International Affairs Year Opener on 24 January 2025. Photo courtesy: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ...

The fragility of the truce between Israel and Hamas was laid bare on Saturday, after Israel accused Hamas of withholding a hostage, prompting a halt in the movement of Gazan civilians back to ...

The conflict between Israel and Hezbollah has left behind lots of rubble. Some experts fear that much of it will be dumped into the environment without controls. By Aryn Baker For the past three ...

The White House said that a ceasefire involving Israel and Lebanon had been extended in a Sunday statement. The ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel, announced by former President Biden in Novem ...