Matthew is a senior breaking news reporter at Business Insider's Singapore bureau. He joined the team in June 2021, and mostly covers global politics, defense issues, labor trends, and internet crime.
His main interest is reporting on how these issues influence modern society in Asia, with a particular focus on China.
Matthew previously wrote for the Singaporean online news publication TODAY as an intern reporter, with bylines 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.
During his time at Nanyang Technological University, he was Chief Editor of the school's GOFAR program from 2020 to 2021. His coverage 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:
"I think Trump's tenure has shown that fears of abandonment or ignorance of politics in Asia is overblown," one academic told Business Insider.
Chuanda Zhisheng, named after Sichuan University, has a meme status because it coincidentally uses the same characters as a nickname for Trump.
Saturday's attack once again fed common narratives held in China about the US, including the idea that it's a massive, chaotic "Gotham City."
BlackRock said the shooter was one of "several unpaid students" who appeared briefly in the ad about an AP Economics teacher in Bethel Park.
Tim McCarthy, who in 1981 defended then-President Ronald Reagan from a gunman, gave his assessment of the shooting to WGN-TV.
Evan Vucci, an AP photographer, was covering Trump's rally when shots rang out. He said he immediately knew the event would go down in history.
The shooting suspect is a 20-year-old man from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, the FBI says.
Local media reported that while Japanese authorities believe the ship made a mistake, its captain is still being questioned for the 20-minute incident.
"I don't know if it was complacency or deceit, or whatever it is," Jon Stewart said during an episode of his podcast.
"Nothing that's been done inspires any confidence," Stewart said on Thursday, suggesting that Biden present a genuine plan to beat Trump in the polls.
Sergiy Kyslytsya, Ukraine's ambassador to the UN, posted a menu on Tuesday, saying Russia had served the dish after a barrage of strikes on Kyiv.
Thomas Lattanzio and Harry Stevens used open-source information on casualties to estimate that Russia needs 2.3 trillion rubles on promised payouts.
Tech
2024-07-10T07:39:01Z
"I really didn't want to end up working for the Titanic of AI, and so that's why I resigned," said Saunders, who was on OpenAI's superalignment team.
China is up in arms after state media discovered trucks interchangeably delivered soy oil and chemicals for fuel without cleaning their tanks.
The Iranian frigate Sahand was photographed floating on its side as merchant vessels were docked nearby. State media said it was undergoing repairs.
Despite Farage's Reform UK gaining steam, it wasn't nearly enough to translate into victories, splitting the Tory vote and handing Labour victory.
The Times of London reported on Sunday that the drones were the Chinese-made Wing Loong, aligning with specifications released by Italian officials.
As Biden rushes to save his bid for reelection, his chief of staff is telling staff to tune out the noise and focus on their work.
China's tech firms issued warnings about anti-Japan posts after a 55-year-old Chinese woman died trying to protect a Japanese mother and her son.
News
2024-07-02T06:41:37Z
Around 520,000 people crossed the treacherous Darién Gap in 2023, many on their way to the US. Another 174,000 people used the corridor this year.