'Very grateful for customers' support': Popular Toa Payoh zi char stall shuts down after 56 years
The coffee shop at Block 203 Toa Payoh North was packed on Dec 29 as regulars turned up to bid adieu...
Sarawak’s Gunung Gading National Park expects Rafflesia to be in full bloom today
KUCHING, Jan 3 — Gunung Gading National Park in Lundu is expecting the Rafflesia to be in full bloom...
River Hongbao 2025 to usher in new year with SG60-themed lantern displays, firecrackers
SINGAPORE — Sixty strands of firecrackers will mark the start of River Hongbao 2025 with a bang on J...
In Finland, students learn how to identify online hoaxes, become media-savvy citizens
HELSINKI, Jan 3 — Finland is consistently ranked as Europe’s most media literate country and the ski...
A season of loss: Taiwan’s persimmon harvest hit by climate change and ageing farmers
TAICHUNG, Jan 3 — Taiwanese persimmon farmer Lo Chih-neng stands on a ladder in his sprawling orchar...
Saving the sea cows: The Cameroonian scientist on a mission to protect Africa’s vulnerable manatees
DIZANGUÉ (Cameroon), Jan 3 — Ever since his first hard-won sightings of African manatees, award-winn...
Taiwan board game invites players to imagine Chinese invasion
TAIPEI — A new board game set against the backdrop of armed conflict around Taiwan is set to be rele...
China’s warmest year ever recorded: 2024 brought deadly floods and soaring temps
BEIJING, Jan 2 — Last year was China’s warmest on record, its weather agency said, as the world expe...
Cosmetic surgery aficionado Jocelyne Wildenstein dies aged 79
PARIS, Jan 2 — Swiss socialite Jocelyne Wildenstein, also known as “catwoman” due to her extensive p...
Meghan Markle marks her return to Instagram with Prince Harry behind the camera (VIDEO)
LOS ANGELES, Jan 2 — Meghan Markle has made her grand return to Instagram, and fans of the British r...
Doing things Lat’s way: How the comic legend champions racial harmony through art and storytelling
Lat’s iconic works, such as Kampung Boy and Mat Som, celebrate the daily lives of Malaysians while p...
Tintin, Popeye, works by Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Virginia Woolf and Alfred Hitchcock among US copyrights expiring in 2025
NEW YORK, Jan 1 — From “A Farewell to Arms” to the cartoon character Popeye the Sailor, thousands of...