Why keeping up to date with news?
You keep up to date with news because like that you know what is happening around you and the world. You will be able to know what to do at a situation if they update on a new instruction on something so that some things may be improved through it. Know what the people around you is doing so that you do not see weird changes around you.
One of the ways to keep yourself up to date with news is to read more newspapers daily and watch the night news as a habit. Remind yourself to read updates such as the SMB and the news websites such as zaobao.com and straitstimes.com by maybe putting them into your bookmarks list and put them as your homepages so whenever you open your internet browser, you get some information in and get reminded to read them.