Is Singapore really a Blue Zone? Experts weigh in on how healthy Singaporeans are

A Blue Zone is a place where people live longer and enjoy better health well into old age. We look at whether and how Singapore steps up to this latest accolade. 

People walk and cycle through the Bay East Garden in Singapore on Aug 9, 2021. (File photo: AFP/Roslan Rahman)

Singapore was recently named a Blue Zone 2.0, where people live longer and lead healthier lives. But unlike other Blue Zones where traditional ways of life have naturally led people to longevity, it is an “engineered” Blue Zone

Health Minister Ong Ye Kung has said that the country should strive to be a Blue Zone 3.0
Health and longevity experts weigh in on what has worked so far and how Singaporeans can lead healthier lives

Chew Hui Min

17 Oct 2023 

The Anti-Vaxxer

Andrew Wakefield has been a boon for the tiny coffin industry. The motherfucker belongs in prison. Don’t recognize the name?
He created the modern antivaccine movement. 

'You shouldn't let me back': Amos Yee pleads with Singapore government against deportation

February 05, 2026

KOH XING YING

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Singaporean child sex offender Amos Yee, 27, who is facing deportation from the United States, has published a blog post urging the Singapore government not to accept his return, claiming that doing so could create political complications.

‘Law works quickly in Singapore’ — LA Times writer sounds shocked that man who grabbed Ariana Grande is already in jail

ByAnna Maria Romero

November 19, 2025



SINGAPORE: At the Asia premiere of Wicked: For Good in Singapore on Thursday (Nov 13), Ariana Grande, who plays one of the movie’s leading roles, was accosted by a man who jumped over a barricade. The incident left Grande and her co-stars, including Michelle Yeoh and Jeff Goldblum, visibly upset, and fans who came to the event can be heard calling out to the actress to ask if she was all right.

After a promising beginning, is Singapore's cultivated meat industry on the way to the slaughterhouse?

What is next for the nascent industry that seemed off to such a good start?

A chef prepares Good Meat's cultivated chicken at the Eat Just office in Alameda, California, on Jun 14, 2023.
(File photo: AP/Jeff Chiu)

Justin Ong Guang-Xi

17 May 2024


SINGAPORE: It was June 2022, and the lab-grown meat industry looked like it had a sizzling future.

The largest cultivated chicken meat facility in Asia broke ground in Singapore, with a 30,000 sq ft complex at Bedok Food City, set to produce "tens of thousands of pounds" of meat a year. 

Singapore drops ‘30 by 30’ farming goal, sets revised targets for fibre and protein by 2035

One of the new targets is for Singapore to by 2035 produce 20 per cent of the country’s consumption of fibre – a category
that comprises leafy and fruited vegetables, beansprouts and mushrooms.

Nov 04, 2025

SINGAPORE - Singapore has replaced its original 2030 farming goal with new targets for fibre and protein production by 2035, amid headwinds confronting the local agricultural sector.

Singapore appoints UK firm Mott MacDonald to study nuclear energy technologies

The Energy Market Authority said no decision had been made to deploy nuclear energy in Singapore.

A photo of nuclear power plants. (File photo: iStock)

Chelsea Ong

02 Sep 2025 

SINGAPORE: The Energy Market Authority (EMA) has appointed the Singapore office of British firm Mott MacDonald to study advanced nuclear energy technologies, it announced on Tuesday (Sep 2).