In 2019, there were only 200 single-family offices; now, there are over 2,000, according to CNBC. It says that “the government aims to build on this momentum by encouraging more family offices to ...

The moment Tunku remembered why nobody invites Lee Kuan Yew for karaoke. Image from Straits Times ... into Communism (such as during his farewell speech in 1970), he always quotes the words that Chin ...

A lesson in deterrence from the founder of modern Singapore.

Synopsis: Every first Friday of the month, The Straits Times catches up with its foreign correspondents about life and trends in the countries they’re based in. Trichy in southern India has no ...

To help, we've collected our favorite “I love you” quotes from the likes of William Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway, Maya Angelou, Emily Dickinson and a host of poets and writers whose eloquence ...

SEOUL – South Korean actress Lee Joo-sil, who most recently appeared in the second season of global hit Squid Game (2021 to present), has died at the age of 80 on Feb 2, her agency 1230Culture said.

Samsung Electronics Chairman Jay Y. Lee was found not guilty of accounting fraud and stock manipulation by a Seoul appeals court on Monday, in a ruling that could remove long-running legal risks ...

South Korean newspaper The Chosun Ilbo reports that Lee passed away in her family home in Uijeongbu of stomach cancer, a diagnosis that she had received in November. Lee previously revealed that ...

Pontypool hospital staff knew Huw Erasmus, 34, had a ‘propensity’ to eat plants but failed to assess him after garden visit, coroner says A patient died after eating toxic yew leaves while on ...

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