Shape-Shifting Singapore

Salome Agbaroji is a 20-year-old Nigerian American poet and activist from Los Angeles County. She was the seventh National Youth Poet Laureate of the United States and has performed spoken word for the Golden Globes and at the White House. At the Rotary International Convention i ...  Afficher plus

Few contemporary novelists have captured the complexities of family, friendship, and the ties that bind as beautifully as Ann Patchett. Over the past three decades, she has become one of America’s most celebrated writers, earning the PEN/Faulkner Award. Patchett also owns Parnass ...  Afficher plus

Linda Yueh travels to Shanghai to find out how the economic slowdown and the government’s anti-corruption drive is changing how people do business in China.As part of the A Richer World season we go around the world in 40 days, visiting six key countries and meeting the people wh ...  Afficher plus

We take a tour of one of the world's most famous luxury hotels, the Raffles in Singapore. Raffles' 83-year-old resident historian Leslie Danker tells us about some of the famous guests who have stayed in the Beach Road suites, including the author Somerset Maugham. But with Sikh ...  Afficher plus

Cities designed like families can last for generations. Skeptical? Look to master architect Liu Thai Ker, who transformed Singapore into a modern marvel with his unique approach to sustainable urban design. Liu shares creative wisdom and perspective on how marrying a humanist hea ...  Afficher plus

Imagine a country that is not under a strict lockdown or scrambling to find hospital beds to care for Covid patients; where people regularly dine and drink inside. This country exists –it’s Singapore. One of our associate producers, Emily Liu, makes the trip back home, to a place ...  Afficher plus