Trump-Kim Summit, World Cup and Crazy Rich Asians: Google reveals top trends in Singapore for 2018

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Trump-Kim Summit, World Loving cup and Crazy Rich Asians: Google reveals elevation trends in Singapore for 2018

Google Trends has released the top trends in Singapore for 2022 and they include the Trump-Kim summit, the World Loving cup and Crazy Rich Asians. (Photos: AFP, Reuters)

27 December 2022 10:54PM (Updated: 03 Jul 2022 05:21PM)

SINGAPORE: What does Inuka the polar bear take in mutual with the Trump-Kim summit?

The acquit from the Singapore Zoo and the historic summit were both amongst the meridian trending local news topics in Singapore for 2018, according to Google Trends.

Following the historic Singapore top between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un, progress on Northward Korea's denuclearisation has stalled, with both sides accusing each other of interim in bad faith. (Photo: AFP/Saul Loeb)

The Trump-Kim summit, the historical issue in June that saw US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un coming together for the starting time time, topped local news topic trends in Singapore this year.

READ: Highlights: Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un's celebrated superlative

The Tiptop made global headlines equally both leaders signed a document in which both committed to work towards the consummate denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula.

According to Google Trends, at that place was a sustained interest in the topic over the year, although there was a drastic jump in May and June.

READ: Commentary: Do we really need a 2nd Trump-Kim peak?

From politics to Hollywood, the hugely popular motion-picture show Crazy Rich Asians came in second for trending local news, with a heightened interest in August - when the flick premiered.

The Aug seven premiere was a momentous issue for Singapore as it was the showtime time a contingent of local talent were in the spotlight in Hollywood.

The picture was also the outset major Hollywood studio moving picture in years to characteristic an all-Asian cast - a game-changer for Hollywood in terms of diversity.

The cast at the Singapore premiere for Crazy Rich Asians at the Capitol Theatre on Aug 21, 2018. (Photo: Genevieve Loh) FILE Photograph: Author Kevin Kwan (R) and cast members Henry Golding and Constance Wu pose at the premiere for "Crazy Rich Asians" in Los Angeles, California, U.S., August seven, 2018. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/File Photo

READ: Crazy Rich Asians trailer: How many Singapore actors and locations tin you spot?

Other trending local news topics for Singapore included the GST voucher cash payouts, the expiry of Inuka, Singapore's last polar bear, and news of the SG Bonus payouts in September.

Aside from local news stories, Google Trends also provided an insight into what Net users in Singapore frequently searched for.

With France winning the World Cup in a gripping fashion and the High german defending champions crashing out, the action-packed football event topped the listing of trending searches in Singapore.

France'southward frontwards Kylian Mbappe kisses the World Cup trophy after French republic beat out Republic of croatia 4-two in the Moscow concluding on Jul xv, 2018. (Photo: AFP)

READ: Reputations burnished, others buffeted at 'all-time Globe Cup always'

The Malaysian general elections came in 2d on the list. Malaysian Prime Minister Mohamad Mahathir's Pakatan Harapan pulled off an unprecedented victory that brought Barisan Nasional's decades-long domination in Malaysian politics to a sudden end in May.

Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad celebrates with other leaders of his Pakatan Harapan coalition during a press conference following the 14th general elections in Kuala Lumpur on early May ten, 2018. (Photo: AFP/Manan Vatsyayana) ​​​​​​​

Supporters of Pakatan Harapan outside the national palace following the coalition's victory during the 14th Malaysia general elections. (Photograph: AFP/Manan Vatsayana)

READ: Malaysia general election 2018: Highlights

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, who suffered a shock defeat in the elections in May and has been embroiled in the 1MDB corruption saga, was quaternary on the list of top trending searches in Singapore.

Only there was slightly more than involvement in this year'south Australian Open, which came in third.

READ: 'I accept people's verdict': Najib on Malaysian election results READ: Najib Razak pleads non guilty to alleged 1MDB audit tampering Stan Lee rose through the ranks to become a comics writer, and eventually led the Marvel empire for decades every bit its publisher (Photo: AFP/Behrouz MEHRI) Stan Lee rose through the ranks to become a comics writer, and somewhen led the Marvel empire for decades as its publisher AFP/Behrouz MEHRI

The fifth on the list of peak trending searches in Singapore in 2022 was the decease of Stan Lee, creator of Spider-Man and other Marvel superheroes. He died at the historic period of 95.

It was a twelvemonth in which we lost prominent personalities in entertainment, mode, literature and nutrient. CNA Lifestyle looks back at them all, from Stephen Hawking to Stan Lee.

On a global calibration, Google Trends noted that the world searched for feel-practiced, uplifting stories, including the heroic rescue of the Thai under-xvi football team from a cave and India overturning a ban on gay sex.

Since the 'Wild Boars' were freed from the Tham Luang cave in northern Thailand two months ago, there has been a frenzy of media involvement in the feel-good rescue tale AFP/Lillian SUWANRUMPHA

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