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More young people in Singapore are taking extended breaks from work. These breaks can last months, or even a year, and are often to combat burnout or seek a career change.
3 years agoThe company was founded 250 years ago in rural Germany, and remained in the hands of the Birkenstock family until heirs, brothers Alex and Christian, sold a majority stake in 2021. ...
3 years agoArmed conflict, drought, widespread poverty and scarce rural health services already mean the world's newest country has one of its highest maternal mortality rates. Heatwaves linked to climate change are increasing the risks. ...
3 years agoUp for grabs at the sale organized by Julien's Auctions in Nashville will be Clapton's Gibson SG -- popularly known as "The Fool" -- which the British rocker began using when his band Cream embarked on its first US tour.
3 years agoWhile major world events typically trigger a deluge of falsehoods, researchers say the scale and speed with which misinformation proliferated online following the weekend's deadly assault on Israel by the Palestinian militant group Hamas was unlike ever before.
3 years agoThere has been much less public outrage about this incident compared to three years ago, when Rio Tinto destroyed rock shelters at Juukan Gorge in the same region which had showed evidence of human habitation stretching back 46,000 years.
3 years agoOn Monday, Goldin, the first woman to be tenured at Harvard University's economics department, attained the "dismal science" most exalted honour: the Nobel Prize for Economics.
3 years agoThe Harvard professor, who is the third woman to be awarded the prestigious economics prize, was given the nod "for having advanced our understanding of women's labor market outcomes," the jury said.
3 years agoConsidered Uniqlo’s best-selling bag, it was launched about three years ago, and is currently available at stores in 25 countries and regions.
3 years agoIn Mentawai, the amount of a bride’s dowry depends on the number of brothers or uncles she has. The more male relatives she has, the higher her dowry. If the groom cannot afford to pay her dowry on his own, then his family must chip in. This is how the land given as a bridal dowry remains an asset belonging to the groom’s family.
3 years agoA new Netflix documentary about the controversial “cyanide coffee case” sheds light on Indonesia’s current legal system but does not share any new information regarding the murder of Wayan Mirna Salihin.
3 years agoThe Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to imprisoned activist Narges Mohammadi for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran.
3 years agoSometimes compared to Samuel Beckett, another Nobel-winning playwright, Fosse's work is minimalistic, relying on simple language which delivers its message through rhythm, melody and silence.
3 years agoThe transformation of Paris into one of the world's biggest bicycle-friendly cities is relatively fast.
3 years agoSpeaking at South Korea's Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), Chow told reporters that Hong Kong's cinema industry had to learn to play by a new set of rules since the city returned to China's control in 1997.
3 years agoTeater Abnon features Betawi traditional gambang kromong music in their upcoming production and celebrates its 14th anniversary.
3 years agoDenny Wirawan, in collaboration with the Bakti Budaya Djarum Foundation, presented a fashion show in Kudus, Central Java, featuring the forgotten splendor of Kudus batik.
3 years agoThese students eventually became stateless, wandering around aimlessly and seeking other countries for better asylum.
3 years agoCalled ARCHAX after the avian dinosaur archaeopteryx, the robot has cockpit monitors that receive images from cameras hooked up to the exterior so that the pilot can manoeuvre the arms and hands with joysticks from inside its torso.
3 years agoTraders at Jakarta's textile and garment hub are collectively breathing a sigh of relief after the government's social commerce ban on TikTok, but it may not be smooth sailing from here on out for sales at their physical stores.
3 years agoWhile many policymakers acknowledge that traffic is a problem, they tend to focus on widening roads or constructing new highways, which, as has been evident for years, are not effective solutions.
3 years agoUS-based Atlas said it has come up with a way to treat a type of nickel ore usually used as an ingredient in stainless steel into a form that can be used for EV batteries with low emissions and no waste.
3 years agoEven though Mentawai women earn their living by cultivating land, they have no right to own it. This is the first of a two-part story, with part 2 to be published on Oct. 7.
3 years agoThe experiment was hailed as "huge milestone", though most physicists anticipated the result, and it had been predicted by Einstein's 1915 theory of relativity.
3 years agoUntil now, ChatGPT's responses to user queries were based on a vast database, which did not contain information from after August 2021.
3 years agoBased on a Statistics Indonesia (BPS) report, there were 26.37 million motorized vehicles in Jakarta in 2022 and motorbikes were the most common vehicle type, with 17.3 million units.
3 years agoTheir Soyuz MS-23 capsule undocked from the ISS a minute earlier than scheduled, and took around three and a half hours to make it down to Earth, landing southeast of the city of Zhezqazghan.
3 years agoWhether it is YouTube scrapping a key misinformation policy or Facebook altering fact checking controls, the social media giants are demonstrating a certain lassitude with being the sheriffs of the internet Wild West.
3 years agoResearchers "found black dust and debris on the avionics deck of the Osiris-Rex science canister when the initial lid was removed today," the US space agency said, though without specifying whether they definitely belonged to the asteroid.
3 years agoThe 35-year-old sells his wares at Tanah Abang, Southeast Asia's largest textile market, where sellers are desperately calling out to passersby.
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