Current affairs

What’s The News? Students compete in ST’s current affairs quiz

ST20260514_202634800297/jrcurtain12/Jason Quah (SUGGESTED MAIN PIC #1) St. Gabriel's Secondary School students Pierson Png, 15, (left) and Kaeden Tan, 16, celebrate with their teammates after crossing the finish line in Final Stretch during the semi-finals of current affairs competition What's The News? At Our Tampines Hub on May 14, 2026. They were the only team to successfully cross the finish line in its entirety. ST PHOTO: JASON QUAH

Have a nose for the news? Take part in ST’s What’s The News? 2026 competition

The winning team from Temasek Junior College at the 2025 edition of What’s The News?. The competition returns in 2026, with registration opening from Feb 5 to March 5.

2025 news round-up: 10 local stories that got everyone talking this year

As the year comes to an end, relive the events that took centre-stage in Singapore in 2025.

Asian Insider Podcast

This Shandong city produces 80 per cent of China’s peony paintings

A visitor at the Caozhou Peony Garden on April 9, 2025.

Asian Insider Podcast

Podcast: Dr Anji Sinha - Trump's mystery pick for ambassador to Singapore

US Embassy in Singapore

Mediacorp head and chief editor of Chinese news and current affairs steps down

Mr Chua Chim Kang cited personal health as the reason why he left MediaCorp.

French government resigns, stays on for now in caretaker role

French Junior Minister for the Sea and Biodiversity Herve Berville, Education and Youth Minister Nicole Belloubet, Junior Minister for Territorial Communities and Rural Affairs Dominique Faure, Junior Minister for Children, Youth and Families Sarah El Hairy, Junior Minister for Europe Jean-Noel Barrot, Junior Minister for Foreign Trade, Attractiveness, Francophonie and French People Living Abroad Franck Riester, and Junior Minister for Industry and Energy Roland Lescure leave following the weekly cabinet meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, July 16, 2024. REUTERS/Stephanie Lecocq

The Usual Place Podcast

Podcast: New PM = new era? Young Singaporeans share what they expect when DPM Wong takes over

Forum: Teens today don’t know enough about current affairs

Italian PM Meloni's former partner loses TV show over sexist comments

FILE PHOTO: Andrea Giambruno, partner of Italy's new Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, arrives at the Quirinale Presidential Palace for the swearing-in ceremony of Italy's new government, in Rome, Italy October 22, 2022. REUTERS/Yara Nardi/File Photo

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