SINGAPORE: In October, a seemingly ordinary Chinese vase sold for an astronomical sum of money at an auction near Paris. Valued at a respectable €2,000 (US$1,966), it sparked a bidding war among about 30 people at the auction in Fontainebleau, and eventually sold for €7.7 million – or €9.12 millionContinue Reading
Observers are expecting an intense contest for the Malay votes in rural and urban seats, as this is likely to be decisive in determining who forms the next government.
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Malaysia will go to the polls in less than a month. Asian Studies professor James Chin looks at how things might play out over the next fortnight before nomination day.Continue Reading
The job of driving a bus has been associated with middle-aged people working long hours for low pay, but a new generation of young drivers say things have changed for the better.Continue Reading
Is it possible for overwhelmed stay-at-home parents to “quiet quit”? What would that workplace trend look like at home? Mother-of-two Yong Qiao Qing tried it out.Continue Reading
The Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP) has yet to approach former deputy prime minister MR Pridiyathorn Devakula who is seen as a potential candidate to become the ruling party’s new economic mastermind, party leader Gen Prawit Wongsuwon said on Friday.Continue Reading
BEIJING: China’s five-yearly Communist Party Congress will end on Saturday (Oct 22), with President Xi Jinping likely to seal a norm-breaking third term in power. The closing ceremony at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People tops off a week of largely rubber-stamp meetings among 2,300 party delegates, who will approveContinue Reading
After three decades in captivity at a private zoo in Bangkok, the well-known gorilla, Bua Noi, may finally be granted a return “home” to where she was born in Germany, if the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment’s plan to repatriate her is a success.Continue Reading
Phuket: A couple of two-storey buildings on rain-soaked terrain were damaged when one subsided and collapsed onto the other in Muang district late Thursday night.Continue Reading
The Metropolitan Electricity Authority (MEA) has rolled out four new services to assist all of its customers in the process of switching to the use of clean and sustainable energy.Continue Reading