Culture

PERSPECTIVE

Bombing Iran’s Great Mosque could cost the world

2026-04-03T23:00:00.000Z
At the  ‘BTS The Comeback Live Arirang’ concert in central Seoul on Mar 21, the super boy band explicitly highlighted its heritage to the world.

BTS is South Korea’s biggest cultural catfish

2026-03-24T07:26:37.000Z
Machines are helping us build the most fanatical scenarios imaginable, engineered not for accuracy but for virality.
THE BROAD VIEW

The argument that never ends

2026-02-27T04:00:00.000Z
Learning a new language will require more than memorising new words and expressions; mastery comes when you wrap your head around patterns.

This one novel word speaks volumes about how an entire language works

2026-01-23T22:45:00.000Z
Tan Puay Kern (standing, left), chairman of the ChariTrees 2025 organising committee, and former Singapore president Halimah Yacob (standing, fourth from left) with youth at the launch of the event.
TAKING HEART

ChariTrees aims to raise S$1 million for its beneficiaries, which include BT BAF

2025-11-23T08:49:21.000Z
The sold-out show, held at the Sota Drama Theatre on Oct 17 and 18, drew more than 600 people over the two nights.

BT Budding Artists Fund celebrates 20th anniversary with ‘Here I Am’

2025-10-20T09:35:49.000Z
Unlike in London, where taxi drivers have to undergo rigorous instruction, taxi drivers in much of Asia are simply turned loose on their cities.

Hotels can still be a Find Wally puzzle

2025-08-01T23:00:00.000Z
The book is valuable not only for its portrait of its subject – who was a major figure in the party’s history in his own right – but also for its insights into his progeny, now the supreme leader.

How an agonising relationship with his dad shaped Xi Jinping

2025-05-30T02:00:00.000Z
Kwek's experience working in China spans across the government, corporate and public-private contexts.

Kwek Poh Heok named new CEO of Business China

2025-05-19T07:33:53.000Z
During Rome’s golden age, one set of laws governed a gigantic empire, markets were relatively free, and 400,000 km of roads sped goods from vessel to villa.

How golden ages really start – and end

2025-05-09T04:00:00.000Z