Aerial view of Singapore's skyline featuring the green-covered Carlton City Hotel tower amid the city's dense urban landscape

Singapore to pay parents to boost declining birth rate

Full Episode
49:10

The Singapore skyline is pictured on Oct. 5, 2025.

Anton L. Delgado

Singapore has announced plans to offer parents $55,000 per child to encourage people to have more children. Also, the pope joins Spain in calling for a more humanitarian approach to migrants. And, physical activity hasn’t increased globally in two decades. Plus, what hospitals could sound like in the future.

In This Episode

Singapore wants to pay parents to help boost birth rate
6:45
A Catholic clergyman in white vestments and zucchetto speaks at a podium on a balcony draped with red cloth, arms raised
Pope weighs in on migration
Special Coverage
6:41
Physical activity hasn’t increased globally in 20 years
7:32
Facility in Mexico breeds sterile flies to curb screwworm
6:36
The future sound of hospitals
6:34
How tricycle ambulances are saving lives in rural Ghana
4:08
Longevity in Japan’s Okinawa
7:26