From Peranakan food, to curry fish head, the island nation's culinary offerings are linked to its immigrants
Bjorn Low never expected that he would one day be involved in the revival of Singapore's culinary traditions.
It's a city built amid mountain ranges. Tucked away from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the city grabbed the world's attention when a massive earthquake convulsed it in 2010.
More than 2 million tourists have visited Cuba this year, state media said last Wednesday, putting the country on track for a record number of visitors bringing badly needed cash to an economy facing a sharp reduction in subsidized oil from its chief ally, Venezuela.
Christopher Sayegh holds up two syringes filled with cannabis compound, primed to pump tiny amounts into a pomegranate sorbet, or a juicy cut of Wagyu Japanese beef as part of a bold new sensory experiment.
There's not a lot of green in the urban jungle of Sao Paulo, but thanks to Fernanda Danelon, restaurants in the Brazilian megacity are turning their waste back into food at innovative gardens tucked amid the skyscrapers.
For as long as athletes have been battling for gold medals, they've been taking fortifying tonics - some stomach-churning, others downright dangerous - with little concern for their health.
Baseball and softball will return to the Olympics in 2020, while skateboarding, surfing, karate and sport climbing are joining the Games for the first time.
China's dominance has made world table tennis uncompetitive, but the only solution is for other nations to raise their games, the sport's top official said on Wednesday.
Before coming to China whatever little I knew about the country came from my interaction with Chinese people abroad, news reports by foreign media and endless speculation. I always felt that the mainland was culturally similar to India, where I grew up, and radically different from the US, where I was born. I never expected to see a Tesla on the road or use Uber to get around the city, but as they say, anything is possible in China.
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