The Straits Times

1 day ago | straitstimes.com | Anjali Raguraman

SINGAPORE - The 2025 General Election saw a turnout of 92.83 per cent - or 2,438,610 - of the 2,627,026 registered voters in contested constituencies casting their ballots, after the addition of overseas voters. The ballots of more than 9,000 Singaporeans who voted overseas were counted on May 15 for the general election, with overall voting patterns largely similar to local citizens’ votes.

2 days ago | straitstimes.com | Zhaki Abdullah

SINGAPORE – A new drug based on gene-editing technology could soon provide respite to patients suffering from a rare and potentially fatal genetic heart disease. Transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM) is a rare disease of the heart muscle that involves deformed transthyretin (TTR) proteins building up in the heart, nerves and other organs. As a result of the protein build-up, the walls of the heart become thickened and stiff.

2 days ago | straitstimes.com | Benjamin Cher

SINGAPORE - GXS Bank has announced that chief executive Muthukrishnan Ramaswami will be retiring on May 31. His successor will be Ms Lai Pei-Si, CEO of GX Bank, the Malaysian arm of GXS, it said on May 14. Ms Lai will take over as GXS CEO on June 1, with GX Bank deputy CEO Kaushik Chowdhury taking over her role. Mr Ramaswami will remain as a senior adviser to GXS. Ms Lai has been the CEO of GX Bank since 2022, when it received a digital banking licence in Malaysia.

3 days ago | straitstimes.com | Alan Blinder

MASSACHUSETTS - Harvard University expanded its lawsuit against the Trump administration on May 13, hours after the government said it was ending about US$450 million (S$585 million) in research funding to the school. The battle between the administration and the nation’s oldest university has been intensifying since April 11, when the government sent Harvard a list of intrusive demands in a mistakenly emailed missive.

3 days ago | straitstimes.com | Jason Horowitz |Emma Bubola |Elizabeth Dias |Patricia Mazzei

VATICAN CITY – The cardinals electing a new pope to lead the Catholic Church left the Sistine Chapel exhausted and hungry. A meditation to start the conclave had dragged on and pushed their first vote deep into the evening of May 7. It had resulted in an inconclusive tally, with three main contenders. Keeping their vow of secrecy, they returned to Casa Santa Marta, the guesthouse where they were sequestered without their phones, and started talking.