Singapore, Award-winning Indian-origin writer and playwright Kamaladevi Aravindan was among six women who were inducted into the Singapore Women’s Hall of Fame recently, making up a total of 198 women who have been honoured since 2014. Singapore-Indian writer inducted into Women’s Hall of Fame Initiated by the Singapore Council of Women’s Organisations , which marks…
For many people, running a 42km (26-mile) marathon would be considered a bucket list-worthy achievement. But Hongkonger Kevin Field is setting his sights even higher. Starting from Saturday, the 28-year-old will run a 50km ultra-marathon every day for a week. He plans to do a 5km loop between the Central Harbourfront and the Wan Chai…
Taiwan ranked as the happiest place in Asia, according to the 2025 World Happiness Report. Thant Zaw Wai | Moment | Getty Images Taiwan is the happiest place in Asia, according to the 2025 World Happiness Report, published Thursday. Of the 147 places around the world that were ranked this year, it took the 27th…
Home » ASIA » Singapore, Tokyo, and Hong Kong Lead as Top Business Travel Destinations in Asia Pacific for 2025, with Frankfurt, London, and San Francisco Dominating Intercontinental Routes Thursday, March 20, 2025 Based on BCD Travel’s Cities & Trends 2025 Asia Pacific report, Singapore, Tokyo, and Hong Kong top the list of most-visited cities…
Canada’s biggest insurer Manulife Financial has appointed its chief actuary Steve Finch to head its Asian business, picking a company veteran to take charge of a region that is projected to become the group’s single most profitable market. Finch will bring more than three decades of industry experience to his new role as president and…
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on March 13, 2025. NYSE After Thursday’s sell-off, the S&P 500 has joined the Nasdaq Composite in correction territory, which is typically taken to mean a decline of 10% or more from a recent high. Investors looking to distract themselves with a drink might,…
Asia-Pacific markets fell on Thursday after a soft inflation report in the U.S. helped two of the three benchmarks on Wall Street reverse course from two days of losses. The consumer price index — a broad-based measure of costs across the U.S. economy — increased 0.2% month-on-month in February, putting the annual inflation rate at 2.8%….
A customer shops for produce at an H-E-B grocery store on Feb. 12, 2025 in Austin, Texas. Brandon Bell | Getty Images CNBC will be hosting “CONVERGE LIVE,” an inaugural thought leadership event on March 12-13, 2025, in Singapore, where global business leaders, entrepreneurs, investors and key decision-makers will discuss what it means to innovate…
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron speaks during a joint press conference with Albanian Prime Minister after a meeting in Tirana, on May 22, 2024. Adnan Beci | Afp | Getty Images Former U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday said he is fearful that U.S. President Donald Trump’s approach to securing peace in Ukraine could…
Patients at Hong Kong’s public hospitals and clinics may need to pay more for their prescriptions, with authorities reviewing the current heavily subsidised HK$15 (US$1.92) fee for a 16-week supply of medicine. Without disclosing details of the fee adjustment review, Dr Simon Tang Yiu-hang, director of cluster services at the Hospital Authority, said the aim…