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Scientists in Southeast Asia are bio-hacking mosquitos
5:20
A car on fire in a public square at night, with flames and smoke rising into the air. A person stands nearby observing the scene, with buildings and a decorated structure illuminated in the background.
Protests escalate in Iran with little information getting in or out
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49:52
US-Colombia relations begin to fray
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50:18
The Big Fix: Singapore searches for sustainable aviation fuel
4:16
The swimmers making waves at the World Aquatics Championships
1:56
The ambient recordings of Masma Dream World
4:31
In Singapore, a Honda Civic can cost triple your salary
5:17
Edible insects approved in Singapore
4:20
Singapore ‘royalty’ seeking asylum in the UK
5:10
Pope Francis lands in Indonesia on Southeast Asia trip
5:48
A debut album for a previously private songwriter
2:18
Insects on the menu in Singapore
4:01
Badminton star Beiwen Zhang is competing again, without the pressure
4:24
Summer Olympics 2024
‘I’m not finished’: Badminton’s Beiwen Zhang wants gold in the final Olympics of her decadeslong career
4:24
Singapore puts Asian twist on cell-grown meat
4:49
Turbulence blamed in airplane death
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Singapore gets a new leader — the 1st time in 20 years
4:54
President Joe Biden participates in the US-ASEAN Special Summit to commemorate 45 years of US-ASEAN relations at the State Department in Washington, Friday, May 13, 2022.
Foreign policy
US ‘walks fine line’ at Southeast Asia summit to strengthen ties
US Air Force airmen guide evacuees aboard a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan
Top of The World
G-7 agrees on conditions to recognize and work with the Taliban
US Vice President Kamala Harris takes part in a roundtable at Gardens by the Bay in Singapore
Global Politics
Southeast Asia allies express concern over US commitment amid Afghanistan crisis
A pickup truck is shown flying the white and black Taliban flag in the distance with two people holding rifles in the nearground.
Top of The World
Thousands desperate to be evacuated from Afghanistan
The cultured chicken dish prepared by chefs at 1880 restaurant was served to customers for the first time this past weekend.
The Big Fix
Is Singapore’s approval of lab-grown meat a win for the climate?
People stand on a train platform
COVID-19
‘Travel bubbles’: Who’s in and who’s out of the plan to save global tourism
Women wearing masks to prevent contracting Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) ride a subway train in Seoul, South Korea, on June 12, 2015.
COVID-19
Past epidemics underscore importance of mental health amid COVID-19
A woman is shown through a clear glass window with the reflection of a Mexico City neighborhood.
Coronavirus Conversations
Discussion: Lessons from the coronavirus pandemic to avert a future crisis
A metal poll is shown with four surveillance cameras pointed out in four separate directions as a man walks by wearing a face mask.
COVID-19
Coronavirus surveillance poses long-term privacy threat, UN expert warns
A woman wearing a mask passes is shown in soft focus with a arrivals and departures flight information board behind her.
Top of The World
Scientists develop antibody test to track disease spread; Putin, Erdoğan reach ceasefire agreement; ‘Urgent’ response needed to protect women against violence globally
Commuters wearing masks in precaution of the coronavirus outbreak are pictured in a train during their morning commute in Singapore, Feb. 18, 2020.
COVID-19
COVID-19: Lessons from Singapore and how it handled SARS
Two firefighters are shown in silloette holding hoses and spraying water against a backdrop of orange blazing fire.
Photography
Indonesia’s ragtag firefighters on frontline of Borneo’s forest blazes
Robert Mugabe
Dead at 95, Mugabe was one of Africa’s most polarizing figures
Singapore
Singapore will no longer rank children based on exams
US President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un walk together before their working lunch during their summit at the Capella Hotel on the resort island of Sentosa, Singapore.
Global Politics
Trump-Kim summit gave ‘master manipulator’ a global platform, says defector
A woman works out with apartment buildings behind her
How single women are driving gentrification in Hong Kong and elsewhere
Protesters are shown with placards that read, "Climate change is worse then Voldemort."
Environment
‘Worse than Voldemort’ — global students’ strike targets climate change
A Russian soldier stands in the foreground of citizens celebrating, waving flags
Autocracies that look like democracies are a threat across the globe
A campaigner from a political pressure group wears an oversized mask of founder and CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg
International lawmakers seek global regulations for social media
Newlyweds Araminta (Sonoya Mizuno) and Colin
Arts, Culture & Media
What happens when you let everyone in the world audition for a Hollywood studio film
Michael (Pierre Png) and Astrid (Gemma Chan)
Media
How to get beyond a tourist fantasy of Singapore
Mother of the groom Eleanor Sung-Young (Michelle Yeoh)
Media
‘Crazy Rich Asians’ is a big win for Asian American representation in Hollywood — but what about Singaporean representation?
A sand mining operation in Rangkasbitung, Indonesia. A global building boom has driven soaring demand for sand for concrete and land reclamation, much of it illegal and damaging to ecosystems and communities.
Environment
A global sand grab is wrecking ecosystems and communities around the world
a new store openes in North Korea
Business
Singapore helps North Korea break out in business
US President Donald Trump sits next to North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un with the flags of both countries behind them.
Trump, Kim make pledge on denuclearization
Ahead of North Korea Summit, President Trump Spurns U.S. Allies
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Men impersonating North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump meet at Merlion Park in Singapore, June 8, 2018.
Global Politics
For some in Singapore, the Trump-Kim summit isn’t a big deal
singapore
He may not get a nuclear deal, but Trump may leave Singapore with an orchid named after him
the singapore skyline in the background and a landfill in the foreground
Environment
In Singapore, where trash becomes ash, plastics are still a problem
Members of environmental groups hold up banners calling for renewable energy at the United Nations climate talks that took place in Bonn, Germany in 2015. Bonn was the site of the last United Nations Climate Change Conference in November 2017, in which co
Climate Change
As latest UN climate change summit looms, delegates have plenty of work to do
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (C) talks with officials onboard his personal plane in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang Feb. 15, 2015.
Global Politics
Trump, Kim summit in Singapore presents logistical challenges for North Korea
Singapore
Global Politics
Singaporeans express ‘sense of betrayal’ after the president’s swearing-in without an election
Commuters walk to the train station during evening rush hour in the financial district of Singapore March 9, 2015.
Economics
Here’s how Singapore provides high-quality health care at low costs
Zika fumigation in Singapore
Health
How Singapore became a role model in the fight against Zika
A worker fogs the corridor
Health
Singapore is dealing with an outbreak of locally transmitted Zika infections
Me Migrant
Arts
This Bangladeshi migrant is stirring up Singapore’s poetry scene
Daniel Gross, left, is pictured with his mother in Singapore.
Global Politics
Why my immigrant mother won’t be voting in the California primary
Singapore driverless car
Technology
Why Singapore is ground zero for the robot car revolution
Brazilian soldiers inspecting water container for Zika
Health
Improving water sources, sanitation facilities and poverty alleviation may not be the solution to Brazil’s Zika outbreak
A resident walks along a street on the banks of the Songhua River near a highway bridge on a hazy day in Jilin, Jilin province, on February 25, 2014
Global Scan
The air pollution in China is being compared to nuclear winter — and one man is trying a lawsuit to change that
Global Scan
Welcome to Sochi?
Arts, Culture & Media
Run Run Shaw, the great-grandfather of Hong Kong film, dies at age 106
Chicago police move in to knock down a burning cross in front of a home, after an African-American family moved into a previously all white neighborhood, August 3, 1963. The civil rights movement in America was one of the historic trends transforming the
Global Politics
Here’s what else was going on in the world when Kennedy was assassinated