In the golden age of air travel, long-haul flying really did take a long time. Aircraft could only fly for a few hours before ...

(Mainichi/Takuya Suzuki) OSAKA -- As this city prepares to host Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, smoking regulations are becoming increasingly strict. A citywide ban on street smoking will take effect on ...

The Kuala Lumpur High Court has granted lawyer Haniff Khatri Abdulla leave to challenge a ban on smoking in private offices which came into force on Jan 1 this year. In a statement, Haniff said ...

The editorial team will be curating the latest must-know local and international news. Singapore-born Lynn Ban, jewellery designer and star of Netflix's "Bling Empire: New York", has passed away at 51 ...

NEW YORK – Lynn Ban, a celebrity jewellery designer from Singapore and a star of Netflix’s reality series Bling Empire: New York (2023), died at age 51 on Jan 20, just weeks after she had ...

Singapore-born Lynn Ban, jewellery designer and star of Netflix's "Bling Empire: New York", has passed away at 52 after undergoing brain surgery for a ski accident. Ban was known for her bold designs ...

A Hong Kong anti-smoking group has called for a total ban on flavoured cigarettes after a survey found nearly 90 per cent of young female smokers opted for the particularly addictive products.

Nina Westervelt for The New York Times Lynn Ban was born on May 27, 1972, in Singapore to David Ban, a developer, and Patricia Ban, a certified gemologist who nurtured her daughter’s love of ...

A smoking space is seen in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward. (Mainichi) TOKYO -- Only four of Tokyo's 23 wards ban street smoking of both traditional cigarettes and heated tobacco products and impose fines ...

According to the bio on her site, Ban was a native of Singapore who lived and worked in New York, London and Paris. “Her extensive travels across the globe, from exotic locales to cosmopolitan ...

Panic over the US TikTok ban increased usage and downloads of a ... a little-known platform out of Singapore with an AI-powered video feed similar to TikTok’s, according to new market research.

SINGAPORE – A 19-year-old who was in a motorcycle chase that killed a Land Transport Authority (LTA) officer has been sentenced to two years and three months’ jail, and six strokes of the cane.