Traveler Reports US Visa Canceled During Flight Over Minor Prior Overstay, Denied Entry at Singapore Stop
A recent report highlights an unusual immigration case involving a woman traveling to the United States who was reportedly turned away after her visa status changed while she was in…
British Graduates Emigrate to Escape Cost of Living Pressures
Record numbers of young British nationals are relocating overseas to escape the UK’s cost of living crisis and pursue stronger financial prospects. Emigration is rising sharply as graduates and early-career professionals encounter the weakest domestic job market in thirty years, alongside flat wages and high housing expenses. To counter these pressures, workers aged 18 to...
Indian-Origin Singapore Director Accused of Leaving Hundreds of Workers Unpaid
Singapore authorities are investigating an Indian-origin businessman after around 400 Indian and Bangladeshi migrant workers were left without wages for several months. The director, identified as Ramu Palani Velu, reportedly disappeared before being located and returned to Singapore on June 26 to assist with inquiries. He has surrendered his passport. Velu serves as director of...
Ontario court slashing $500M legal fees will have ‘chilling effect’ on other cases, argue lawyers
Lawyers who had over $500 million in legal fees struck down by an Ontario court are appealing the decision, arguing the case could have wider implications. In 2023, lawyers with the firm Nahwegahbow Corbiere negotiated a landmark $10-billion settlement for 21 Anishinaabe First Nations, for breaches by the Crown of the 1850 Robinson-Huron Treaty. ...
Dancers loved practising in this Singapore walkway. Then the complaints came
With its wide floors, floor-to-ceiling mirrors and a ready audience, the underground passage connecting a train station to Singapore's iconic Gardens by the Bay had served as a practice ground for aspiring dancers for years....
Architect behind Singapore’s public housing system dies aged 87
Who is Liu Thai Ker? Born in 1938 in Malaysia, Liu came to Singapore when he was six. He later studied architecture in Australia before going on to do his master's degree in city planning at Yale University, before working in the New York office of famed architect I M Pei....
The Green Party celebrates the large and diverse diaspora of Aotearoa New Zealand, fosters mutually-beneficial and meaningful links to home, and safeguards our rights and well-being.
The Aotearoa New Zealand diaspora is impacted by policy in several areas including Governance, Disability, Health, Global Affairs, Immigration, Livelihoods, Education, Te Tiriti o Waitangi, and Workforce....
Nau Mai, Welcome Home: tapping into the diaspora of Aotearoa New Zealand
Recommendations on how we can understand and tap into the potential of our offshore diaspora, attract some of them home, and prepare our infrastructure for trends in the post-pandemic future....
Why New Zealanders are emigrating in record numbers
In the past, fears of brain drain have proved overblown. Young expats have generally returned, and governments have offset losses by letting in immigrants from countries such as India and China. The result was a “brain exchange”, says Paul Spoonley, a sociologist at New Zealand’s Massey University. But there is a risk of that changing, he argues. ...
New Zealand: From Settler Colony to Country Reliant on Temporary Immigration
Immigration has been enmeshed in the character and fortunes of New Zealand since the country’s modern formation in the mid-19th century. Immigrants historically were primarily British and Irish, and arrived as permanent settler colonists, in a process that involved the marginalization of the Indigenous Māori people....
Singapore’s Migration Controls Seek to Balance Population Growth, Global Ambitions, and National Priorities
Singapore thus faces a constant challenge balancing the demands of nation-building against its globalized outlook. On the one hand, the imperatives of nation-building require constantly safeguarding the borders of a 287-square-mile (744-square-kilometer) country that former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew called a resource-scarce “precious, accidental, improbable, unlikely… nation in the making.”...
Indian diaspora earns over A$1 trillion annually, larger than most countries’ economies
The global Indian diaspora continues to grow in economic importance, not only through record remittances but through the vast income it earns across advanced economies....
British Indian peer Karan Bilimoria appointed chair of key UK industry body
Bilimoria welcomed the British government's relaunch of Free Trade Agreement (FTA) talks as part of his new role....
Where Indians live abroad in 2025-26: Top 10 countries with the largest diaspora led by US
Top 10 countries with the largest Indian diaspora in 2025-26: India has the world’s largest overseas diaspora, with approximately 35.4 million Indians living abroad, and the United States hosting the largest share, as of January 2025....
Voices & Opinion
A More Divided World: Can Diplomacy Still Find Common Ground?
International politics is becoming increasingly complicated as countries face geopolitical competition, economic uncertainty, security concerns and disagreements over trade and technology. Major powers are pursuing their own strategic interests while…
India’s Changing Global Role: Why Strategic Independence Matters More Than Ever
India’s growing influence in global affairs raises an important question: how should the country balance relationships with major powers while protecting its own strategic interests? India increasingly works with the…
India’s research retraction surge sparks call for reform
In the expansion of India’s scientific footprint lies an uncomfortable truth: the country now ranks third globally for life science research papers retracted from the record, according to a comprehensive…
Indian Science and Technology landscape: a leap for a better future
India produces a large quantity of scientific research, ranking 4th globally in terms of total research publications in 2020 according to Elsevier SciVal and having the 9th largest number of…
