How Singapore builds communities in the sky
The Housing and Development Board was set up in 1960, replacing the Singapore Improvement Trust (SIT), to solve the severe housing shortage and improve the poor living conditions…
No ‘occult’ cure for mental health: Experts
Modern science has much to offer in the treatment of mental health with specialists, and even Buddhist monks, calling on people to recognise it as a medical issue and seek…
NK conducts most crypto hacks in 2023: report
Cryptocurrency theft is the major channel for the Kim Jong-un regime to fill up its coffers with foreign currencies, says the report.
Chinese mini-dramas turn hot overseas
China's modern soap operas set in short episode formats manage to keep audiences hooked.
Indonesia, the dynastic democracy soap opera
Academics and civil society activists decry dynastic politics as being the death of democracy in Indonesia, but it seems that the Indonesian electorate doesn’t mind it.
Seoul vs. the rest: University pyramid crumbling at the bottom
Even before graduation, students flocked to private cram schools that help students prepare to retake the Suenung, the national exam that plays a key role in university admissions.
Chinese New Year celebrations in Kathmandu
Traditional Chinese dances along with powerful acrobatics enthralled audiences at the event attended by Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal.
Body heat scanners help hunt for drugs at airport
The detector is a whole-body imaging security device that shows hidden objects or substances and is used to check air travelers specifically suspected of drug possession.
The global rise of traditional Chinese medicine
"Many people of my generation signed up for universities following our parents’ or teachers’ orders, but students nowadays choose to study Traditional China Medicine mostly…
Bollywood filmmakers are obsessed with villainising Pakistan — the Fighter trailer proves just that
It seems as though the director is beating a dead horse with a stick in yet another military movie villanising Pakistan — and in India’s election year too. Indian audiences…