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Why Spring Is The Golden Season In Japan

From sun and snowfall to sakura and strawberries, these ski enthusiasts discover why spring is the golden season in Japan.

Singapore's Best Steaks

From online grocers to restaurant feasts, we round up some of Singapore’s best steaks.

Get Party Ready

Heading for drinks or a cocktail party? Here are some of our favourite fashion picks to get you started.

Are You Longing To Volunteer Your Time To Help Singapore's Wildlife?

Are you longing to volunteer your time to help Singapore’s wildlife? Then the Jane Goodall Institute (Singapore) may be just the ticket.

Cancer Survivor: We Hear A First Hand Account

One woman bares all about her breast cancer journey and offers tips on trying to stay positive through it all.

Home With The Chowdhurys

When you’re passionate about art, your collection can stretch from street art to famous pieces, and even artworks done by your own family members. We take a look at the Chowdhurys’ impressive home gallery.

Gems For All Ages

Scoring quality, handmade accessories that are pocketfriendly, and made to suit any age group, can be a challenge.

Why Spring Is The Golden Season In Japan

From sun and snowfall to sakura and strawberries, these ski enthusiasts discover why spring is the golden season in Japan.

5 Straddie Highlights

Shamus Sillar enjoys a return to one of Australia’s great holiday islands, easily accessible from Singapore.

Diets: Doable Or Not?

We take a look at five popular diets and get the experts to weigh in on each.

What's New Premium Proteins

Why trek to the butcher every few weeks when you can have quality Australian meat and seafood automatically delivered to your doorstep each month? Aussie-owned online meat retailer The Meat Club does just that, bringing growth hormone-free, cage-free, grass-fed and gluten-free goods from the farm to your fridge, all sourced from suppliers who observe ethical animal welfare practices.

The Globetrotters

Being steered around the planet for her husband’s career has not stopped Carla De Peuter from creating successful businesses wherever they’ve landed.

Ideas For An Indo Escape

Did you know that Indonesia is made up of over 17,000 islands? Here, we discover what you can do on and around a handful of those islands, from diving and cruising to relaxing in a luxury villa.

How The Seven Clean Seas Moment Started!

When 30-year-old Brit Tom Peacock-Nazil and his fiancée were vacationing on an island in Thailand, they found a pristine, beautiful, white-sand beach. They loved it so much, they returned the next day, only to find it covered in plastic. That experience kicked off Tom’s passion, Seven Clean Seas.

Best Fitness Places To Sweat Smarter

Forget long workouts in conventional gyms. With their innovative approach to fitness, these gyms will have you fit and trim in no time.

Healthy Eating- Is Right The New Wrong?

Passionate student of healthy eating – whatever that may be – Verne Maree ponders a new and very first-world condition: orthorexia nervosa.

Eclectic Dreams

Told to “make an effort” and “get dressed up” when I mentioned to my colleagues I was off to interview philanthropist CHRISTINE AMOUR-LEVAR, my anxiety is raised a little more as her security guard sighs, “Ah, the beautiful Christine”, when I tell him which unit I am visiting. My nerves are quickly allayed when I meet her, though. Yes, she’s glamorous and beautiful; she’s also open, warm and funny, particularly when discussing her home, the condo where she and her family have been living for almost 11 years. She talks with infectious enthusiasm about her not-for-profi t organisation, Women on a Mission, and shows me around her luxuriously styled and eclectic apartment.

Décor in Dempsey

If you fancy a spot of shopping without stress, Dempsey Hill is the perfect antithesis to busy Orchard Road and the like. Surrounded by tropical greenery, away from the concrete jungle, its low-rise restored colonial buildings are a far cry from their high-rise mall counterparts and offer plenty of places to eat, drink and relax in. It has plenty of home décor stores that are well worth exploring – and, what’s more, parking is free!

Family Time on the Rhine

There was never much doubt that HEIDI SARNA would enjoy her weeklong river cruise in Germany, but it proved a surprise hit with her kids, too.

Family Life In Novena

Arriving in Singapore from New York City, LOUISE ALVERSON and her family moved into a Novena condo. Here she explains what drew them to this spot, and why they rented much of their furniture to fi ll up their home space.

Navigating Tough Times: How To Talk To Children About Tragedy

The recent spate of tragedies around the world raises many questions for parents. How much do we share with our children? What is the media exposing them to? Should we answer their queries? Do they really need to know what happened? We asked MARK PETTERSON, Senior Years Counsellor and Experiential Learning Coordinator at GEMS World Academy (Singapore), for some commonsense advice.

The Voice - A Look At One Expat's (Awesome) Out-Of-The-Box Career

We chat with British-born expat MICHELLE FORD about what it’s like to work as a voice actress here in Singapore.

Trending: The Clean Meat Revolution

Trending: The Clean Meat Revolution

Punching Goals

She Says… Choose what truly makes you happy. Don’t feel under pressure to do something because everyone else is doing it. Surprise yourself – pick that random hobby that you’ve been mulling over and go for it on your own terms. You might turn out to really love it!

Wedges Of Wisdom

After deciding to break away from a fast-paced career in the fashion industry and start her own business a year ago, STEPHANIE DICKSON has learnt more about herself than she could ever have anticipated. The founder of The Wedge Asia, a company that organises talks, events and workshops to inspire and motivate, tells us about her journey.

Secondhand story

We aim to sell our customers good quality products at a fraction of the price, so that they too can improve their quality of life.

Past, Present And Future

We find out from WTP The Furniture Company director NAAZLI SOMJEE why she joined her mother and founder of the family business, Mimi, and what she loves about her job.

Save The Sanctuary

Following a significant reduction in the size of its premises, The Cat Museum, which shelters stray cats and kittens, needs your help.

All About Pets

We all want the best for our fur-kids, don’t we? From boarding to food, we chat with three families about their go-to places for all their pet needs.

Spicy Spotlight

Armed with a social mission to fill hungry bellies with nutritious, healthy food, Nigeria-born NAMITA MEHRA founded her cooking kit business Indian Spicebox in 2014. We chat with the inspiring mumpreneur on how she does it all.