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Singapore university whose Public Policy and Global Affairs programme employs the cited analyst Dylan Loh.
NTU scientists built a compound that starves Mycobacterium abscessus of energy; paired with the drug clofazimine it cut the microbe a hundredfold in four days. Two other teams mapped the same bacterium's virus defenses and a related pathogen's toxin-firing weapon.
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Researchers at Singapore Management University and Duke-NUS argue that AI companions supplement people who already have social support and substitute for people who do not. They call governance the weakest of the four protective layers they name.
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The US Trade and Development Agency agreed on Sept. 14 to fund a feasibility study for a trans-Pacific cable routed clear of the South China Sea. National Telecom in Bangkok has to assemble the consortium that pays for it.
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In a lab-scale run at NTU Singapore, oyster mushroom mycelium grew through the pulp left over from tofu and soymilk, cutting its sourness and raising its umami compounds. The open questions are energy and scale-up.
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The SG Child Support Package totals almost S$70,000 by age 17. In steady state that is roughly S$2.1 billion a year, about ten times the public AI research line. The researchers behind it doubt cash moves family size.
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Sea Legend Line's new Northern Sea Route service halves Suez transit times, but the corridor carried 23 container ships last year and runs on Russian permits.
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