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SINGAPORE: Singapore and Vietnam are stepping up cooperation in areas like advanced manufacturing and innovation, Minister-in-charge of Energy and Science and Technology Tan See Leng said on Friday (May 29).As part of the partnership, a new research centre will be established in Vietnam, Dr Tan said in a speech at the Vietnam-Singapore Tech Connect Initiative held at Raffles City Convention Centre.The project is among several initiatives announced during Vietnamese President To Lam’s state visit to Singapore. On Friday, Mr Lam met with Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong. The two leaders witnessed the signing of several memorandums of understanding (MOUs), as ministers…

Japan’s population fell by more than 3 million over the past five years, according to official statistics released on Friday, a drop that underscores the depths of the country’s accelerating demographic crisis.The population stood at 123 million in 2025, according to preliminary census results, down from 126.1 million in 2020. It is the biggest decrease since the government began collecting census data in 1920. Japan’s population loss is accelerating Change in population every five years Source: Statistics Bureau of Japan Japan’s population peaked in 2008 at 128 million, and it is projected to fall to 87 million by 2070. The…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Mallory McMorrow, a Democratic candidate for Senate in Michigan, wasted no time answering whether an antisemitism problem exists in the Democratic Party.”There is,” McMorrow answered bluntly at a debate Senate debate on Thursday.”At the Democratic convention, an attendee yelled an antisemitic slur at my husband, who is Jewish and was walking with my 5-year-old daughter. That is terrifying,” McMorrow said.Amid a tight, three-way Senate primary, McMorrow’s answer definitively reveals her stance on a question that’s steadily grown in recent years: whether the Democratic Party has positioned itself as more than just a…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! They were asked the same question, but new Minnesota Vikings quarterback teammates Kyler Murray and J.J. McCarthy had two completely different answers.McCarthy’s first full season with the Vikings — the 2025 first-round pick missed the entirety of his rookie year due to a knee injury — was a rollercoaster despite a 6-4 record. He threw for 1,632 yards with 11 touchdowns and 12 interceptions and a 57.6% completion rate across his 10 games under center.As a result, the Vikings made the move to add a veteran presence this offseason, signing Murray, the…

Warning: This story deals with suicide, a sensitive issue that some readers may find upsetting. Please read at your own discretion. Kenneth Law, an Ontario man accused of selling lethal substances online to people who later used them to die by suicide, is expected to plead guilty in court Friday.Law, who was arrested three years ago, is due to admit to 14 counts of assisting suicide, and it’s anticipated that the Crown will withdraw the 14 counts of first-degree murder against him.Anyone found guilty of aiding suicide can face up to 14 years in prison, while first-degree murder carries an…

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Romania and its NATO allies have reacted angrily after a Russian drone crashed into an apartment building in eastern Romania, injuring two people.The foreign ministry in Bucharest on Friday labelled the crash of the drone, part of an overnight attack aimed at Ukraine, a serious violation of international law and called on NATO to accelerate the transfer of anti-drone capabilities. The incident is just the latest incursion along the alliance’s eastern flank, raising concern that the risk of an open confrontation between Russia and NATO states is rising.Romania said the overnight drone was tracked by radar in its airspace before…

The former first lady Jill Biden told “CBS Sunday Morning” that former President Biden was indeed “slowing down,” as she put it, even as he ran for reelection. Nancy Cordes has more details.

Bitcoin price suffered a sharp $2,000 rejection immediately after Donald Trump delivered his most explicitly pro-crypto statement to date, vowing he would “never let crypto down”, and the BTC price drop that followed said everything about where the market currently stands.Rather than launching a sustained rally, the statement functioned as a distribution event, flushing out leveraged longs clustered near the $70,000 resistance level and leaving BTC materially lower within hours.Traders on Crypto Twitter are calling it the “Reverse Midas Touch”, the pattern where Trump’s loudest bullish proclamations consistently trigger sells rather than sustained bids. The mechanism is increasingly understood as…

The US-Iran rollercoaster rolls on, with every day a new revelation and a new reality. As the week started, investors saw a potential peace deal quickly escalate to war and attacks by the United States by lunchtime, only for the following day to see it back to promises of a deal by President Trump, followed by yet more war.By Thursday, investors didn’t know which way was up, with the ASX opened relatively flat before conceding a whopping 1.5 per cent by midday after Iran fired warning shots at tankers leaving the Strait of Hormuz.Trump denied anything was awry Friday, stating…