Singapore

• The Drum Wednesday February 15 Video

  Video
  The Drum

  28min 1sec

  Posted February 15, 2017 18:47:54

  Host: Ellen Fanning
  Panel: Michael Pascoe, Dee Madigan, Ming Long and Jim Molan
  The panel discusses the Government’s threat to increase taxes if the omnibus bill doesn’t pass, Adani coal mine protest plans and Australia’s alliance with the US.

  Topics: government-and-politics, business-economics-and-finance, unrest-conflict-and-war, environment, australia, singapore

• Singapore POW's art brought light to a dark wartime world

  ABC Western Vic

  By Sue Peacock

  Posted February 15, 2017 17:32:31

  Des Bettany arrived in Singapore in 1941 carrying a kids' art set and a talent for cartoons which carried him through his years as a POW.

  Topics: visual-art, community-and-society, history, world-war-2, unrest-conflict-and-war, government-and-politics, world-politics, men, ballarat-3350, singapore

• Fall of Singapore puts tiny Mallee town on front line during WWII

  Vic Country Hour

  By Emma Brown

  Posted February 15, 2017 11:21:42 | Updated February 15, 2017 11:31:00

  During WWII, a small town in Victoria's Mallee was on the front line in the defence of Australia.

  Topics: world-war-2, air-force, history, regional, regional-development, community-development, lake-boga-3584, singapore, broome-6725, darwin-0800, ballarat-3350, mildura-3500

• Remembering the fall of Singapore Audio

  Audio
  ABC News

  9min 52sec

  Posted February 15, 2017 10:17:04

  When we remember the fall of Singapore we do it through the eyes of Australian troops, who suffered terribly as prisoners of war. But the local people of Singapore and Malaysia have their own stories. Ginny Costin, Aziz Bab and Eric Gan were children when Japanese forces invaded.

  Topics: world-war-2, singapore, sydney-2000, canberra-2600

• In their own words: Australian soldiers remember fall of Singapore

  RN

  By former ABC foreign correspondent Tim Bowden

  Posted February 15, 2017 09:23:08 | Updated February 15, 2017 10:12:13

  More than 30 years after the end of WWII, Australian prisoners of war really began to tell the stories of what happened in the wake of the fall of Singapore.

  Topics: world-war-2, history, community-and-society, 20th-century, singapore, australia, japan

• Australian Malays, Singaporeans remember occupation 75 years on (photos)

  ABC Radio Canberra

  By Andrea Ho

  Posted February 15, 2017 09:17:09 | Updated February 15, 2017 10:17:04

  The people left behind in Singapore and Malaysia upon the fall of Singapore and the British retreat 75 years ago today saw their lives irrevocably change.

  Topics: world-war-2, unrest-conflict-and-war, community-and-society, history, singapore, malaysia, japan

• Internet love scam syndicates busted Video

  Video
  The World

  4min 21sec

  Posted February 14, 2017 23:56:06

  Beverley O'Connor speaks to Dr Haji Amirudin Abdul Wahab, the CEO of Cyber-Security Malaysia about the arrest of dozens of men who had scammed millions of dollars from lonely women.

  Topics: computers-and-technology, internet-culture, internet-technology, community-and-society, marriage, singapore, malaysia

• Three Australian POWs share their stories of the fall of Singapore

  ABC Central Victoria

  By Larissa Romensky

  Posted February 14, 2017 18:42:03

  How the fall of Singapore changed three Australian prisoners of war, sharing their stories on its 75th anniversary.

  Topics: community-and-society, history, world-war-2, unrest-conflict-and-war, government-and-politics, world-politics, men, ballarat-3350, melbourne-3000, singapore, japan

• Ballarat unveils Garden of the Grieving Mother on fall of Singapore's 75th

  ABC Western Vic

  By Sue Peacock

  Posted February 14, 2017 17:56:45

  The collective grief of thousands of mothers who lost sons and daughters to war is to be recognised in a new Ballarat memorial to be unveiled on Wednesday, the 75th anniversary of the fall of Singapore.

  Topics: defence-forces, defence-and-national-security, veterans, world-war-1, world-war-2, history, ballarat-3350, singapore, france

• How the fall of Singapore changed Australia

  By Michael Rowland

  Posted February 14, 2017 17:13:22

  As Australia prepares to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the fall of Singapore, it's hard not to recognise how the pivotal WWII loss marked the rise of the US-Australia strategic relationship.

  Topics: world-war-2, unrest-conflict-and-war, singapore, australia

• Trump's anti-China rhetoric raises concerns in Asia about trade Video

  Video
  The World

  7min 1sec

  Posted February 06, 2017 23:46:16

  Auskar Surbakti speaks to Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy professor Danny Quah about the Asia-Pacific's concerns over Trump protectionism.

  Topics: trade, tax, world-politics, singapore, asia, united-states

• Asia-Pacific region digests US TPP withdrawal Video

  Video
  The World

  5min 12sec

  Posted January 24, 2017 23:46:59

  Beverley O'Connor speaks to Dr Chin-Hao Huang of Yale-NUS College in Singapore about the implications of the US withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

  Topics: business-economics-and-finance, government-and-politics, singapore

• Singapore jails Swiss bank's ex-manager in Malaysian state fund case

  Posted January 11, 2017 22:46:55

  A Singapore court finds a former manager at a Swiss private bank guilty of failing to report more than $US1.26 billion in suspicious transactions in a case linked to the indebted Malaysian state fund 1 MDB.

  Topics: corruption, banking, government-and-politics, singapore, malaysia, switzerland, asia

• Singapore files 16 charges against Falcon branch manager amid 1MDB-linked probe

  Posted January 05, 2017 18:14:08 | Updated January 05, 2017 18:31:31

  Singapore prosecutors file 16 charges against the local branch manager of Swiss-based bank, as part of an investigation into 1Malaysia Development Bhd.

  Topics: corruption, banking, government-and-politics, singapore, malaysia, switzerland

• Fireworks explode above Singapore's financial district at the stroke of midnight to mark the New Year's celebrations on Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017, in Singapore. image

  image
  ABC News

  Posted January 01, 2017 04:21:31

  Topics: singapore

• Migrant workers in Singapore reveal hidden poetry talents

  By freelance contributor Kirsten Han in Singapore

  Posted December 30, 2016 06:22:20 | Updated December 30, 2016 14:47:36

  Migrant workers in Singapore "don't just do menial labour". They are educators, carers and artists — and many are challenging negative perceptions by revealing a hidden talent for poetry in a national competition.

  Topics: poetry, refugees, community-and-society, arts-and-entertainment, singapore

• Canberra international flights a boon for regional farmers

  By Adrienne Francis

  Posted December 29, 2016 08:27:37 | Updated December 29, 2016 08:57:22

  Stallholders at the Capital Region Farmers Market celebrate a jump in sales following the start of direct flights between Singapore and Canberra.

  Topics: agribusiness, rural, tourism, canberra-2600, act, singapore, nsw

• Singapore teen critic held in US while appealing for asylum

  Posted December 24, 2016 17:19:06

  A Singaporean teenager whose video posts and blogs mocking his Government landed him in jail twice is detained in the US where he is seeking asylum, his lawyer says

  Topics: law-crime-and-justice, singapore, united-states, asia

• Adani's complex corporate web spreads to tax havens

  Exclusive by Stephen Long

  Posted December 21, 2016 07:27:17 | Updated December 21, 2016 11:02:40

  Adani's complex corporate web spreads from its planned Galilee Basin coal mine in North Queensland, across Asia to a Caribbean tax haven.

  Topics: coal, mining-industry, multinationals, tax, federal-government, australia, qld, mackay-4740, bowen-4805, singapore, cayman-islands

• Behind Singapore's PISA rankings success Opinion

  The Conversation

  By Amanda Wise, Macquarie University

  Posted December 08, 2016 16:54:05

  The role of private tuition plays a part in the overall success of students in Singapore, with around 80 per cent of primary school children having at least three hours of private tuition a week.

  Topics: schools, government-and-politics, education, youth, singapore, asia, australia

• Two face court after airport sniffer dog's $520,000 find

  Posted December 06, 2016 11:01:19

  Two Singapore nationals face court after more than $520,000 in alleged crime proceeds is found in their luggage by a sniffer dog at Adelaide Airport.

  Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, adelaide-5000, sa, australia, singapore

• Why is Singapore playing down China's seizure of ATCs? Video

  Video
  The World

  6min 52sec

  Posted December 01, 2016 00:04:37

  Singapore is playing down the impact of the seizure of nine of its Armoured Troop Carriers (ATC) by China — the carriers were impounded in Hong Kong as they headed to Taiwan.

  Topics: world-politics, singapore, asia

• TIMSS: Australian schools continue to fall behind Opinion

  The Conversation

  By Sue Thomson, Australian Council for Educational Research

  Posted November 30, 2016 10:56:48

  The latest TIMSS report shows that students in Australia make very little — if any — progress in maths from Year 4 to Year 8.

  Topics: education, government-and-politics, federal-government, access-to-education, educational-resources, mathematics-education, australia, asia, singapore

• Farmers battle Defence over compulsory acquisition of NQ land

  ABC Rural

  By Mark Jeffery

  Posted November 25, 2016 13:50:10

  Land holders in north Queensland are facing a tough battle against the Department of Defence over compulsory land acquisition so Singaporean forces can train in the area.

  Topics: beef-cattle, cattle-feedlots, army, defence-forces, federal-government, townsville-4810, charters-towers-4820, singapore

• ANZ, Macquarie hauled into court over Malaysian ringgit cartel

  By business reporter Stephen Letts

  Posted November 25, 2016 11:22:36 | Updated November 25, 2016 12:10:53

  Australia's rate rigging scandal spreads offshore as ANZ and Macquarie Bank are hauled into the Federal Court over alleged attempts to manipulate the benchmark rate of the Malaysian ringgit.

  Topics: banking, company-news, currency, regulation, business-economics-and-finance, australia, malaysia, singapore

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