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Baby boom expected in Year of Monkey
HANGZHOU (Xinhua) – Chinese traditionally believed babies born in the Year of Monkey to be smart and confident, due to their love of the animal because of its cuteness and resemblance to human in many...
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Thai Mad Men tugging on heartstrings with memorable ‘sadverts’
| Jerome Taylor | BANGKOK (AFP) – Feverishly jotting down ideas in a funky glass-panelled conference room, Thailand’s ‘Mad Men’ are doing what they do best – creating tearjerker adverts that...
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Smartwatches will overtake fitness bands, report says
| Hayley Tsukayama | IN THE technology tussle for consumer wrists, it seems as though the smart money is on the smartwatch. A new report from Gartner predicts that the wearables market will...
View ArticleBring your own pillow: More museums are offering slumber parties for their...
| Andrea Sachs | AFTER the daytime visitors have left, many museums reopen their doors for the second shift of explorers: adventurous souls willing to spend the night among such unusual...
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Have a great idea? Here’s how to make it happen
| Jena McGregor | ADAM Grant is not your typical business school professor. Just 34, he reached tenure while still in his 20s and finished his PhD in less than three years. He writes op-eds...
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Interactive cinema tested: Audience chooses plot
| Anna Ringle | COTTBUS, Germany (dpa) – The audience settles into their cinema seats, drinks at the ready and the film begins. It’s about a guy called Lukas, who’s having problems with his...
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Tired of treadmills? Don’t underrate the elliptical
| Danielle Douglas-Gabriel | AT THIS point in the year, your gym is probably packed with newbies taking a little too long on the treadmill, creating lines for the coveted machine. Because...
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What happens when the country you called home is suddenly off-limits
| Lavanya Ramanathan | WASHINGTON – The banner hanging from Lama Al Damad’s apartment building off 16th Street promises luxury apartments. But inside the cavernous art-deco halls, up the...
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Broken trumpet from sunken warship holds secrets from WWII
| Michael E Ruane | THE old, bent trumpet is dripping with water as Shanna Daniel lifts it from its basin in the conservation lab at the Washington Navy Yard. It’s a B-flat horn, made around...
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From rags to riches: The Qu Puteh Story
| Sharifah Hunaini Syed Ismail | KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama) – The tagline “Qu Puteh Qu Puteh, Barulah Putih” may be annoying to some. However, as a marketing slogan, it worked effectively. It...
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Fun-sized Q3 delivers Audi crossover experience
| Lyna Mohamad | THE all-new Audi Q3 comes with a refreshed design and a number of technical innovations. The facelift is apparent at first glance with its much sharper look. Audi designers...
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Lest We Forget
DOWN MEMORY LANE WITH BORNEO BULLETIN ARCHIVES Compiled by Izzy Isa Eight die as plane crashed in storm February 8, 1986 – Bad weather hampered rescue operations after the crash of a Royal Malaysian...
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A passion for soccer helps unite one of the world’s most diverse countries
| Natalie Hopkinson | WE spoke no Portuguese. So on our second day in Salvador, one of the 12 Brazilian cities that hosted the 2014 World Cup, we haggled for an Esporte Clube Bahia soccer...
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Rio men pay for nose jobs, boast of it too
| Georg Ismar | RIO DE JANEIRO (dpa) – Doctor Volney Pitombo likes to listen to Mozart while he cuts open the noses; a nurse pushes play on the stereo and the sound of a piano concerto fills...
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Paraguayan peasants dread pesticides from soybean plantations
| Carlos Castillos | ASUNCION (dpa) – Two young Paraguayan girls, Adelaida Alvarez Cabrera, 3, and her sister Adela, 3 months, seemed to have no developmental problems until one day in 2014...
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Colombia is preparing for peace. So are its drug traffickers
| Nick Miroff | NECOCLI, Colombia – As the Colombian government nears a deal to end to its 50-year conflict with FARC guerrillas, it is intensifying another war in the jungles here along the...
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Scientists stop calling out to comet lander
BERLIN (AP) – European scientists said Friday that they have stopped sending commands to the Philae space probe, which became the first to touch down on a comet more than a year ago. The German...
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In Santorini, the indigenous tomato paste gets its own historical museum
| Debra Bruno | GREECE (WP-BLOOM) – They had me at the triple-concentration tomato paste. That’s not to say that Santorini’s Tomato Industrial Museum, set inside the stone shell of one of the...
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Traditionally made clogs make comeback in Germany
BURG, Germany (dpa) – The moment when he tautens the leather and nails it to the wood is Manfred Karolczak’s favourite – it means the clogs, which he makes by a traditional German method, are nearly...
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Schiaparelli Spring Collection Gets Pots-And-Pans Inspiration
PARIS (dpa) – Coming soon to evening dress: pots, pans, plates and cups will be printed on clothing soon, if fashion designer Bertrand Guyon has his way after showing his Paris collection for haute...
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