It is an exceptional time for Singapore’s premium real estate market. Three of the most prestigious residences in the country, known as good class bungalows, are for sale in a quiet central area where just five of these mansions have changed hands in the preceding five years. The desirable houses are anticipated to fetch a record price of almost S$240 …

Days after Malaysian religious authorities stormed a Halloween party organized by the LGBTQ community, queer people claim the political parties’ silence ahead of the November 19 election is indicative of their position in society. Saturday, enforcement agents from the Kuala Lumpur Islamic religious authority (JAWI), joined by police officers, apprehended 20 individuals at a private party held in Chinatown, Kuala …

Beginning this coming weekend, passengers may bask in the winter wind while gliding by rail just over a big dam in central Thailand. The State Railway will begin offering train tours beginning in the nation’s capital and ending in the province of Lopburi at a bridge that crosses the Pasak Jolasid Dam, which is the largest earth-filled dam in the …

Three days after her family reported her missing, two youngsters discovered the body of a high school student from the Ateneo de Naga University (AdNU) in Pili town, Camarines Sur, in the grounds of the provincial government complex on October 31. The discovery of the body of Irish Mae “Mai-Mai” Payonga sparked outrage in the AdNU community when it was …

Taylor Swift, a global pop icon, said on November 1 that she will be embarking on a tour for the first time in five years, with numerous US stadium performance dates set for 2023 and overseas stops to be announced later. The 32-year-old American singer-songwriter released her 10th studio album Midnights on October 21, and by Tuesday, its skyrocketing popularity …

Mubadala Investment Company, Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund that manages more than $284 billion in assets worldwide, and private equity firm KKR have formed an alliance in which they will co-invest in performing private credit opportunities in the Asia-Pacific region to address a lack of capital and support the long-term growth plans of businesses. As part of their “strategic relationship,” …

The National Palace Museum of Taiwan has admitted to damaging three $77 million Ming and Qing dynasty artifacts. The Guardian claimed that the objects, a bowl, a teacup, and a plate, were uninsured and shattered in three different events over the course of the previous 18 months. However, the damage was not discovered until last week. On Friday (Oct. 28), …

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, announced in a filing on Monday that he will serve as CEO of Twitter, the social media business he just acquired for $44 billion, a move that Wall Street analysts say will strain the billionaire’s resources. Musk, who also operates rocket company SpaceX, brain-chip startup Neuralink, and tunneling company the Boring Company, ousted Twitter’s former …

Instagram made the announcement that it has ended an outage that had begun on Monday evening and continued into Tuesday morning, November 1. Due to the outage, some users were unable to access their accounts, while others received a notification from Instagram stating that their accounts will be suspended on October 31, 2022. It also resulted in sudden declines in …

According to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, the death toll from Severe Tropical Storm Paeng (Nalgae) reached 110 as of Tuesday morning, November 1. (NDRRMC). On Monday evening, October 31, the disaster agency recorded 101 fatalities as a result of Typhoon Paeng. The NDRRMC’s reporting system includes deaths that have not yet been validated. In this instance, …