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GUANYUN, China: Americans like their lingerie to be risque, Europeans prefer it more classy, and Chinese remain a bit shy but are opening up. But the biggest order of all came from North Korea. So goes the street-corner discussion in Guanyun, a sleepy coastal county that for generations followed ......

DBS is enhancing its efforts to push consumers towards green living with its new DBS Green Solutions package.

The post-pandemic way of working is going to be just as hard for businesses as it will be for workers to navigate, says the Financial Times’ Emma Jacobs.

Millennials exist in a world of social media and tech gadgets. But despite the digital connection, feelings of isolation also plague many in this generation. To cope, millennials are embracing healthy living and are willing to pay a premium for it. Money Mind reports.

Turkey on Saturday detained the chief of one of the country's biggest cryptocurrency firms after launching a manhunt for the founder of another exchange who fled to Albania.

SINGAPORE: About 900 workplaces have been inspected since the start of April to ensure that they have implemented COVID-19 safe management measures, said the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) on Saturday (Apr 24). Fines have been issued to about 10 companies. MOM provided the figures as it revealed that ...

US President Joe Biden’s early foreign policy offers promise, showing discipline, a focus on Asia and pressing issues on trade, taxation and more. The key question is whether this will last, says Dr Prashanth Parameswaran.

U.S. lawmakers and nonprofit groups on Friday heaped pressure on the Biden administration to back a temporary patent waiver for COVID-19 vaccines to help poor countries contain the pandemic.

ISTANBUL: Turkey issued an international arrest warrant on Friday (Apr 23) for the founder of a cryptocurrency exchange who fled with a reported US$2 billion in investors' assets, state media reported. Police also detained 62 people in raids over their alleged links to Thodex, the company headed ...

BOULOGNE-SUR-MER, France: French trawlermen angered by delays getting licences to fish inside British waters blocked lorries carrying UK-landed fish with burning barricades as they arrived overnight in Europe's largest seafood processing centre. Britain's trade deal with the European Union ...