An eerily prescient moment in the landmark cyberpunk film Akira about nuclear destruction predicts the cancellation of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. By preternatural coincidence, I taught the film in my ...

Singapore’s public housing system has been a great success and a key factor in the nation’s development. But in recent years, rising prices have raised questions about affordability. Downtown ...

The 700 square-kilometer country of Singapore is the smallest in Southeast Asia. It is located at the tip of the Malaysian Peninsula, just north of the Equator. Singapore was a Malay fishing village ...

(Kuala Lumpur) – The Singapore government’s use of overly broad criminal laws, oppressive regulations, and civil lawsuits severely curtails freedom of speech and assembly, Human Rights Watch said in a ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. It seems incredible to think that the Singapore we know today, the modern metropolis, the ...

The renowned Singaporean historian Wang Gungwu observed that China has traditionally been a continental power, with Zheng He’s 15th-century maritime voyages as a notable exception. Following the Opium ...

Before he was arrested this month for allegedly running what’s likely the world’s largest cybercrime computer network, Wang YunHe enjoyed a lavish lifestyle in Singapore. He held a bank account in the ...

Singapore calls itself the Garden City, and it’s making good on that promise. Singapore's meteoric economic rise launched a landscape of towering architecture in the compact city-state, but as the ...

Singapore Design Week 2025 transforms the city-state into a dazzling design hub. Highlights include the Design Futures Forum, ArtScience Museum's Another World Is Possible, Kinetic Singapore's ...

The National Museum of Singapore's Shaw Foundation Glass Rotunda re-opens on August 8 with "Singapore Odyssea", a new permanent exhibition about Singapore's 700-year history. The multimedia display ...