AP Week in Pictures: Asia

Workers marched during a May Day rally in Jakarta, anti-nuclear protesters demonstrated in front of Taiwan's Legislative Yuan in Taipei, and people in India’s northeastern Assam state crossed the ... Read More

Singapore’s PM-in-Waiting Embodies Broader Shift in Finance Hub

(Bloomberg) -- In Asia’s wealthiest nation, where the education system is among the world’s best, Singapore’s prime minister-in-waiting has appeared surprisingly unassuming. Most Read from ... Read More

Singapore PM Lee to hand power to successor Wong on May 15

SINGAPORE, April 15 (Reuters) - Long-time Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced on Monday he would hand over power to his designated successor, Lawrence Wong, on May 15, ahead of an ... Read More

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Through decades of painstaking research, the fifth-generation New Yorker discovered the stories of how her ancestors bore and resisted the weight of the Chinese Exclusion laws in the U.S. – and ... Read More

Is Singapore really Asia’s happiest country? UN report sheds light on age divide

Singapore ranked 30th in the World Happiness Report's ranking of 143 ... of an annual UN-sponsored report found Singapore to be Asia's happiest country for the second year in a row, its survey ... Read More

The world’s 100 worst polluted cities are in Asia — and 83 of them are in just one country

Begusarai, a city of half a million people in northern India’s Bihar state, was the world’s most polluted city last year with an average annual PM2.5 concentration of 118.9 — 23 times the ... Read More

Hundreds Pay Respects to Kelvin Kiptum During Funeral Service

Kiptum was just 23 years old when he set the marathon world record (2:00:35) last October at the Chicago Marathon, lowering Eliud Kipchoge’s record by staggering 34 seconds. Kiptum had already ... Read More

Singapore is world’s 5th smartest city, top in Asia: Global index

SINGAPORE – Singapore is the world’s fifth-smartest city, moving up two levels from its ranking in 2023, according to the 2024 Smart City Index. The Republic also remains the smartest city in ... Read More

End of an Era in Singapore as Prime Minister Set to Step Down After 20 Years

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Singapore’s PM-in-Waiting Embodies Broader Shift in Finance Hub

(Bloomberg) -- In Asia’s wealthiest nation, where the education system is among the world’s best, Singapore’s prime minister-in-waiting has appeared surprisingly unassuming. Most Read from Bloomberg ... Read More

The world’s 100 worst polluted cities are in Asia — and 83 of them are in just one country

All but one of the 100 cities with the world’s worst air pollution last year were in Asia, according to a new report, with the climate crisis playing a pivotal role in bad air quality that is risking ... Read More