Become a paid member to listen to this article. Known around the world for being a model of modern urban planning, Singapore was effectively a blank canvas to create a modern country since ...

Singapore has transformed itself from a hub of pollution to an environmental dream-city in the past 50 years. From afar, the country’s landscape looks like any other modern city with abounding ...

Like other aspects of Singapore’s development, urban planning and design can be traced to Lee Kuan Yew, the architect of modern Singapore. When Singapore was expelled from Malaysia in 1965, its ...

The city-state, which successfully solved its own problems with overcrowding and infrastructure, is helping developing countries by, in effect, selling the Singapore Inc. model.

Drifting past Helix Bridge, Boat Quay, Clarke Quay and Merlion, I even caught glimpses of Peranakan houses—vibrant remnants ...

Singapore is collaborating with China on development of the Tianjin Eco-city, an environmentally friendly urban area under construction 93 miles from Beijing that will house 350,000 residents upon ...

Party General Secretary To Lam on Thursday urged the authorities of Hai Phong, Vietnam's largest port city, to pay attention to planning work, towards turning it into a modern maritime economic ...