Zach Hope

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Zach Hope

By Zach Hope May 1, 2025 — 3.50pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. What in the World, a free weekly newsletter from our foreign correspondents, is sent every Thursday. Below is an excerpt. Sign up to get the whole newsletter delivered to your inbox. Singapore: There is another election on Saturday. Unlike Australia’s go at it, everyone knows this one will be no close-run thing.

2 weeks ago | watoday.com.au | Zach Hope

All eyes this weekend, then, will be on the margins, rather than the overall winner. Analysts are seeing a trend. Another round of tightening, maybe even a flipped constituency or two, will send more shudders through the party and its prime minister, Lawrence Wong, who has been in the job for a year and is still establishing himself with the public and colleagues. “If [the PAP] manages to pick up 65 per cent, I reckon he’ll be content that he’s safe in the job for a while,” Barr says.

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Zach Hope

By Zach Hope April 27, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A Cambodian academic living in Australia has admitted to being on the payroll of the authoritarian leader he had supposedly fled, raising fears among the Cambodian diaspora about what information he may have shared with the regime.

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Zach Hope |Karuni Rompies

By Zach Hope and Karuni Rompies April 8, 2025 — 7.30pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. An Australian man and a local tour guide have been injured in the same stretch of water off Indonesia’s resort island of Bali where an Australian woman was killed in a snorkelling-boat accident only last month.

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Zach Hope

By Zach Hope April 7, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Singapore: In the week since a 7.7-magnitude earthquake rocked Myanmar, the editors of the ruling military’s daily mouthpiece have been onto a theme. It is not the thousands of people dead and dying. It is certainly not the regime’s inability and unwillingness to adequately address an unfolding humanitarian catastrophe.