JUST like how there is no truly happy divorce, there is no such thing as a merry - or even successful - retrenchment exercise.
JUST a little over three years ago, a six-month university exchange programme to Switzerland had me stashing 7,000 francs (S$9,951.74) in my carry-on, all in a bid to dodge hefty currency...
It was one such fateful search that gave the team its major breakthrough in the match-fixing scandal, which saw nightclub owner Eric Ding jailed for bribing three Lebanese referees with the...
HOW do you add contacts into your smartphone? Do you fill in a name and phone number and be done with it?
On New Year’s eve, a sneaker collaboration with German sportswear giant Adidas and gamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins was released online to much fanfare, selling out in under an hour.
SINGAPORE'S demand for furry companions is at an all-time high, stoking growth in the pet sector with uptrends in both local sales and imports of domestic animals. But the black market is likewise...
MANUAL skills, such as the ability to sew a garment or build a chair, have fallen by the wayside in most developed countries. Why this has happened is likely a function of rampant digitisation -...
IMAGINE investing in a good story. A big story, tracing the arc of a megatrend - not just a cycle - that will propel those riding the wave far forward. That's what thematic investing is about:...
MARK Chua's most memorable travel experience is a 10-hour flight from Auckland to Singapore in Suites, which gave him more than enough time to sample premium wines and relish the malossol caviar...
"ANYTHING you can do, I can do better. I can do anything better than you." This famous tune from the 1940s Broadway show Annie Get your Gun springs to mind as Nick Halla, Silicon-Valley-based...
The year I was depressed, no one knew about it. Not the colleagues with whom I had lunch, nor the friends with whom I went drinking, nor my caring family members - nor myself. Depression varies in...
