Life & Culture
Sing60: 20 reasons to catch Singapore’s biggest music festival of 2025
Your favourite musicians are converging at Fort Canning for a two-day event celebrating local music
Santa Claus is still a woman
There is something particularly stubborn about gender roles at Christmas
Will 2026 see showdown between big game and indie publishers?
Smaller competitors have shone this year while heavyweights are down but not out
Gen Z is saving the cruise industry
Bookings from younger passengers have allowed operators to defy the gloom in the rest of the travel sector
The matcha craze needs more champagne
Why Japan should up its game to protect its cultural capital. Its tea certainly counts as such
Death becomes a growing business in ageing, lonely South Korea
A new profession has emerged – cleaners who work to tidy up homes after their occupants, most of whom lived alone, have died
Glamping with the fishes at the Singapore Oceanarium
Its signature Ocean Dreams overnight programme returns as a luxurious glamping experience with an educational twist
Meet the real screen addicts: the elderly
The digital habits that defined youth are transforming old age