HONG KONG — Alibaba Group founder and billionaire Jack Ma again weighed in on the Chinese tech industry’s gruelling overtime work culture on Sunday (April 14), this time calling enforced long hours ...

SINGAPORE — Caregivers of elderly folk, and seniors themselves, can look forward to receiving more support under an updated national plan on ageing. The 2023 Action Plan for Successful Ageing offers ...

SINGAPORE — The authorities and wildlife volunteers have launched efforts to reduce potential conflict between residents and smooth-coated otters after numerous encounters between the amphibious ...

SINGAPORE — The wage gap between men and women in Singapore increased in 2018 to the widest in a decade, an analysis of the Manpower Ministry’s labour statistics has shown. The median wage for women ...

HONG KONG — Pasta is Italy’s staple food, but it’s not only Italians who indulge in platefuls of the doughy concoction every day. People all over the world adore it. It comes in more than 300 shapes: ...

SINGAPORE — Consumers in the Republic shop online to get better bargains and are among the world’s fastest adopters of mobile shopping despite being relatively new to e-commerce, business consultancy ...

MASSACHUSETTS — A 27-year-old philanthropist who played a key role in turning the ice bucket challenge into an internet viral sensation to raise funds for research into amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ...

SINGAPORE — National Servicemen (NSmen) who have just completed their two-year full-time National Service stints may be offered short-term contracts to become trainers while waiting for school or work ...

1990: Then Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and Malaysia’s then Finance Minister Daim Zainuddin signed a Points of Agreement (POA), under which the Malayan Railway station would vacate the land at Tanjong ...

SINGAPORE — The Government has announced the fate of golf clubs here, after days of speculation over which of the golf courses with leases expiring within the next 10 years will have to make way for ...

HONG KONG — It’s been 20 long years since we last saw teenaged Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger enjoying butterbeers in Hogsmeade after their classes at Hogwarts. But rejoice, Warner ...

SINGAPORE — Wearing a Muslim headscarf at the workplace would be “very problematic” for some professions that require their staff to be in uniform, said Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs Yaacob ...