Global financial markets were in a spin recently when the Japan's main stock index suffered its worst day in 37 years and stocks on Wall Street faced their sharpest decline in nearly two years.
Eddy Loh, chief investment officer of Maybank Group Wealth Management, tells Andrea Heng what this means for economies and for investors.
Singapore watch strap brand Delugs has grown from a small bedroom operation to an international brand. The brand’s founders, husband-and-wife duo Kenneth Kuan and Chia Pei Qi, want to make strap changing a lifestyle.
Kelvin Pung is an avid dive photographer whose artistic captures of underwater critters aim to promote and protect Singapore’s marine life. His work is all the more impressive because Kelvin had lost the use of one arm in an accident years ago. This makes suiting up before each dive a real challenge, which only deepens the respect for his dedication to dive photography. Kelvin’s personal journey of discovering the gems that live in Singapore’s waters serves as an inspiration.
Azman Hamid fell in love with Pulau Ubin while growing up on the island. Even though he has moved to the mainland more than three decades ago, his heart remains on Ubin. He has been taking a boat to the island daily ever since to work as a taxi driver. He calls himself the last Malay driver in Pulau Ubin, because he literally is. Together with 6 other drivers of taxi vans on the island, Azman is committed to preserving Pulau Ubin’s kampong life in the face of urban development and dwindling visitor numbers.
Some 20 million cases of cancer were diagnosed worldwide in 2022, up from 18 million in 2020. The WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer predicts that number would rise by 77% to 35 million by 2050. And in a disturbing worldwide trend, early-onset cancers - diagnosed in people under 50 - have increased globally by 79%. As the demographics of US cancer patients increasingly shift from older individuals to middle-aged people, evidence suggests that risk factors in early life and young adulthood, including diet, lifestyle, obesity, environment and the microbiome, all play a role in this shift.
CNA Correspondent takes a closer look at the various factors behind the trend, and finds out what cancer researchers are doing to understand this growing phenomenon. And it heads to one of the world's so-called Blue Zones to see what lessons can be learned from societies where many residents live to advanced, and healthy, old age.
Hong Kong graduates and youths are looking to mainland China for work and business opportunities. Some are even choosing to work and live in cities like Guangzhou or Shenzhen and super-commute back to Hong Kong on weekends. And that’s possible because the Greater Bay Area, an economic zone of 9 major cities in the Guangdong province, is designed to facilitate people movement.
What’s a young graduate to do when he’s surrounded by millions of unemployed peers, and there are not enough traditional white-collar jobs to go around? For Gen Z in China, one solution is to take up blue-collar jobs.
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