Matthew is a senior breaking news reporter at Business Insider's Singapore bureau. He joined the team in June 2021, and mostly covers geopolitics, defense, labor, internet crime, and how these issues influence modern society in Asia, with a particular focus on China.
Matthew previously worked for the Singaporean online news publication TODAY. His articles have also been featured in The Business Times and The South China Morning Post.
His work from 2023 won a silver award from the North American Travel Journalists Association and accolades from Longreads, and he was given the Young Journalist of the Year Award by the Singapore Press Club.
His coverage during the COVID pandemic of migrant workers' nutrition in Singapore won the SOAP Story of the Month award and Student Category prize in the International Labor Organization's 2021 Global Media Competition on Labour Migration.
Selected features:
The automakers said that they would continue to work in "the framework of a strategic partnership" moving forward.
Vice Adm. Jan Christian Kaack said the sabotage had involved "more than one unit," and warned of attempted break-ins at German naval bases.
Tech
2025-02-12T07:02:36Z
Anduril announced on Tuesday that it's taking over Microsoft's 10-year contract to make mixed-reality goggles for soldiers.
The Russian soldiers would be treated in North Korean medical facilities, said Matsegora, Moscow's longtime diplomat to Pyongyang.
Tech
2025-02-10T07:41:09Z
"It's using known techniques, actually many of the techniques we invented at Google and at DeepMind," Demis Hassabis said on Sunday.
"There's nothing wrong with this," a State Duma defense committee member said of the donkeys, citing "significant difficulties" with logistics.
Ukraine is ramping up fiber-optic drone production to counter Russian electronic warfare.
The UK's assessment comes as several videos that recently went viral showed men in Russian fatigues and crutches navigating forests and an open field.
Tech
2025-01-28T05:29:37Z
A $1 trillion wipeout in the US stock market has given Liang Wenfeng a new burst of online stardom, with one Chinese paper calling him a "great god."
Budanov said North Korea has sent 120 self-propelled howitzers and 120 MLRS to Russia, and is likely to send the same number again.
The 155th Mechanized Brigade was given French training and weaponry but has been beset by scandal since before it deployed to the front lines.
Russia says it's withstanding the impact of sanctions. Sweden's finance minister says satellite images show a different story.
The paratroopers said the already-wounded North Korean ran "headfirst" into a concrete pillar when they tried to load him into a vehicle.
Tech
2025-01-21T10:02:02Z
"And we're not used to having somebody without a career at stake in the room at a senior level," said Hudson.
Drone makers have to innovate within weeks to counter new enemy techniques, something a three-year contract for a Shahed can't do, the commander said.
Oleksandr Syrskyi credited Ukraine's attacks on "industrial enterprises" that manufacture ammo, missile parts, and other weapons deep inside Russia.
The announcement came after Israel said it received a list of hostages scheduled to be released on Sunday.
Tech
2025-01-17T09:42:17Z
RedNote, or Xiaohongshu, became the most downloaded iPhone app in the US on Monday.
Stefan Vorontsov helps Ukrainians to secretly flee through Russian checkpoints. He says 95% of their success relies on preparing before they leave.
A South Korean lawmaker said Seoul's intelligence showed some 3,000 North Korean troops have been wounded or killed in Kursk.