How much money Olympic athletes earn when they win medals

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US Olympians are awarded $37,500 for gold medals, $22,500 for silver medals, and $15,000 for bronze medals.

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How a 500-year-old Southeast Asian sweet is preserving a nearly forgotten culture

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Kim Choo Kueh Chang has been serving bite-sized treats called Nyonya kueh in Singapore since 1945. These colorful snacks are a staple for the Peranakan people — a cultural group prominent between the 15th and early 20th centuries that's working to be remembered.

Asia's governments think people not having sex or dating may be tanking their birth rates. That's not the full picture.

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Hospital staff attending to new born babies in the nursery ward of the Hospital in Misato city, Saitama prefecture on February 1, 2014.
Cities like Tokyo and Seoul have turned to radical ideas like launching a dating app and giving people money to reverse their vasectomies in order to bolster their declining birth rates.

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Singapore is considered one of the best-designed cities in the world. The man who masterminded it has 2 regrets.

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Singapore is often lauded as one of the best-designed cities in the world.

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Some airports were forced to use whiteboards to handwrite flight information due to the global IT outage

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A man stands looking at a piece of paper in front of a whiteboard displaying flight information in an airport lounge.
A whiteboard displaying check-in information in Terminal 1 of Singapore's Changi Airport.

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Elon Musk praises the first prime minister of Singapore as 'brilliant' in response to a glowing blog post about the country's airport

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Composite image: Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and Singapore's first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew.
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and Singapore's first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew.

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I've visited over 40 countries. These are 6 of the most overrated tourist attractions I've ever seen.

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The Spanish Steps aren't that exciting to look at in real life.

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Dyson is laying off about 1,000 workers amid 'fierce and competitive global markets'

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Founder James Dyson at the opening of a Dyson store in Berlin in October 2023.

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Singapore and Hong Kong are the most expensive cities for the ultra-rich to spend their millions

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A woman takes pictures of the skyline of buildings from Mont Faber hill in Singapore on October 25, 2023.
Singapore is the most expensive city for high-net-worth individuals, according to a new report by Swiss bank Julius Baer.

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An embattled oil tycoon is selling a mansion in Singapore for $32 million. It's one of the city's status-symbol houses that business leaders covet.

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A screengrab from Google Maps Street View depicting the GCB at 1 K Tanglin Hill in Singapore
A screen grab from Google Maps Street View depicting a Good Class Bungalow belonging to former oil tycoon Lim Oon Kuin, better known as OK Lim, in Tanglin Hill, Singapore. In land-scarce Singapore, Good Class Bungalows, or GCBs, are rare and incredibly expensive.

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