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:
Ukraine has been testing a wide range of ground-based drones, which it's dubbed "iron soldiers," some of which are fitted with turrets or explosives.
Adm. Lisa Franchetti outlined a seven-goal plan for 2027, which Washington has repeatedly said is Xi Jinping's target for readying China's military.
The Taiwanese company, Gold Apollo, denies that it manufactured the pagers, and that a European company had the right to use its brand.
The ruined shipments sat for months at an air base because the Army didn't call flights to deliver them, the OIG said in a new report.
Dmitry "Goodwin" Lysakovsky and Sergei "Ernest" Gritsai recorded a video saying that their commander had sent them to die after they argued with him.
Anduril said its new Barracuda cruise missile is cheap and can be changed quickly to fit more missions, allowing the US to "bring mass to the fight."
As KFC and McDonald's struggle globally, they're driving hard into China with aggressive store expansions in lesser-known parts of the country.
A local volunteer leader said evacuees are discovering their villages aren't registered in official data and are locked out of relief payments.
State media found that Chinese schools for fields like IT, car manufacturing, and aviation were letting students graduate without showing up for class.
Pavel Baryshev, who was deputy minister for natural resources, is accused of using forged documents to snag a $223,000 apartment, investigators said.
A nationwide push to make civilians more vigilant has spawned a slew of official warnings for things such as part-time jobs.
Hvaldimir, a beluga whale suspected of once being a Russian spy, was found dead off the coast of Norway on Saturday. Some vets say he was shot to death.
Grisel Marrero installed a Starlink network on the USS Manchester and named it "STINKY," sharing it with only the chief's mess while on deployment.
Linda Sun, 40, was charged on Tuesday with 10 criminal counts, with prosecutors saying she blocked Taiwan's access to New York governors.
The broadcaster CCTV aired clips of workers soaking the berries in vats of sodium metabisulfite and smoking them in place of sun-drying their crop.
A Ukrainian MP and several reports say initial findings suggest the F-16's crash may have involved friendly fire amid one of Russia's fiercest attacks.
Hvaldimir first appeared in 2019 with a camera mounted to a harness, which had clips labeled "Equipment St. Petersburg."
The US likely has some say because Ukraine reportedly relies on American intelligence and systems for the Storm Shadow strikes.
Ivan Rossomakhin, 29, was to serve 23 years in prison after committing another murder in 2023, but was released on August 19 to fight in Ukraine.
"Those are things I don't dabble in," Rear Adm. Marc Miguez said, adding that US leaders were considering the political impact of more strikes.