I stayed in a $290-a-night tiny home on an island 5 miles from Singapore. It was smaller than a parking space.

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The view of a tiny house from outside
The tiny home the author stayed in was just 139 square feet — slightly smaller than a standard US parking space.

Erin Liam

He's 40, single, and living in one of the world's most expensive cities. How one guy plans to retire by 50 and leave the rat race behind.

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Man posing in front of tea plantations on vacation
Christopher How is on track to retire by 50 in Singapore, one of the world's most expensive cities.

Christopher How

How much money Olympic athletes earn when they win medals

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US gymnastics women
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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The Singapore skyline.
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.

Aditi Bharade

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

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