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Xinghui Kok

Asia–Pacific (APAC)

Chief Correspondent at Reuters

Singapore chief correspondent @Reuters 🇸🇬 Likely to be in the yoga studio when not keeping an eye on politics, macroeconomics, socioeconomics; ex @SCMPNews

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  • 3 weeks ago | reuters.com | Xinghui Kok

    SINGAPORE, June 4 (Reuters) - Singapore in the first quarter of this year sold only two plush "good class" bungalows, according to data compiled by a real estate group, its lowest quarterly sales figure for the sought-after properties that typically fetch tens of millions of dollars. The weak figures were in stark contrast to the second quarter of 2021, when 31 units of the rare properties were sold among 86 that year, according to OrangeTee Group, which started tracking their sales in 2019.

  • 3 weeks ago | b975.com | Xinghui Kok

    By Xinghui KokSINGAPORE (Reuters) -Chinese efforts to spy on the Dutch are intensifying, with the focus on semiconductors, Dutch Defence Minister Ruben Brekelmans said on Saturday. “The semiconductor industry, which we are technologically leading, or technology advanced, of course, to get that intellectual property – that’s interesting to China,” Brekelmans said in an interview on the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue security meeting in Singapore.

  • 3 weeks ago | kfgo.com | Xinghui Kok

    By Xinghui KokSINGAPORE (Reuters) -Chinese efforts to spy on the Dutch are intensifying, with the focus on semiconductors, Dutch Defence Minister Ruben Brekelmans said on Saturday. “The semiconductor industry, which we are technologically leading, or technology advanced, of course, to get that intellectual property – that’s interesting to China,” Brekelmans said in an interview on the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue security meeting in Singapore.

  • 3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Xinghui Kok

    By Raju Gopalakrishnan and Xinghui KokSINGAPORE (Reuters) -India switched tactics after suffering losses in the air on the first day of conflict with Pakistan earlier this month and established a decisive advantage before the neighbours announced a ceasefire three days later, India's highest ranking general said on Saturday. The heaviest fighting in decades between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan was sparked by an April 22 attack in Indian Kashmir that killed 26 people, most of them tourists.

  • 1 month ago | businesslive.co.za | Xinghui Kok

    NEWS Support our award-winning journalism. The Premium package (digital only) is R30 for the first month and thereafter you pay R129 p/m now ad-free for all subscribers. BYD electric vehicles displayed in a Singapore showroom. Picture: SUPPLIED China’s BYD became the most popular vehicle brand in Singapore so far this year, outselling Toyota for the first time, government data showed, as the fast-growing electric vehicle (EV) maker steps up efforts to boost overseas sales.

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Xinghui Kok 郭馨惠
Xinghui Kok 郭馨惠 @xinghui_kok
27 Apr 25

I think it’s wild that ST thinks a racial slur (and deliberately mispronouncing someone’s name) counts as “terms of endearment, and until now hasn’t updated the story despite a whole blow up and an apology by the offender https://t.co/ePM67Iumvj

Xinghui Kok 郭馨惠
Xinghui Kok 郭馨惠 @xinghui_kok
6 Dec 24

We’re hiring a Singapore correspondent who would have the exciting ambit of covering everything from quarterly monetary policy to geopolitics and defence, an upcoming general election https://t.co/1P6vIZiObO

Xinghui Kok 郭馨惠
Xinghui Kok 郭馨惠 @xinghui_kok
24 Sep 24

Woke up expecting a long, drawn out trial for Iswaran and thoroughly surprised by the turn of events https://t.co/kWS8k5G0te