Life & Culture

How AI is rewiring childhood

The technology presents dazzling opportunities – and ominous risks

Benjamin Kheng will sing his song, Not Alone, with a little help from his friends, including Shazza, at Sing60.
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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

A 1984 study by sociologist Theodore Caplow found that many a wife was responsible for buying the gifts not only for her parents, siblings, nieces and nephews, but for those of her husband, too.

Santa Claus is still a woman

There is something particularly stubborn about gender roles at Christmas

Indie breakout Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 won the hearts and minds of gamers with its excellent visuals, music and innovative gameplay.

Will 2026 see showdown between big game and indie publishers?

Smaller competitors have shone this year while heavyweights are down but not out

Cruise executives say older Gen Zs, now in their late twenties, and millennials are increasingly choosing ocean-based holidays.

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

Judging by current trends, the vast majority of matcha in the future is going to end up in soft-serve ice-cream, chiffon cakes, mochi and macarons. It would be a waste if Japan tried to chase that low-end business, when the opportunities at the top of the market are so much more alluring.

The matcha craze needs more champagne

Why Japan should up its game to protect its cultural capital. Its tea certainly counts as such

Busan Institute of Science and Technology students lowering a mannequin dressed in traditional Korean funeral cloth into a coffin during a funeral administration class.

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

There is absolutely nothing odd or self-denying about relying on pen and paper as an organisational tool. 

Our devices work for Big Tech, not us

Hate for a US$100 to-do list is misplaced

The Oceanarium is relaunching its signature Ocean Dreams overnight programme, which will run across four select weekends between November and December.

Glamping with the fishes at the Singapore Oceanarium

Its signature Ocean Dreams overnight programme returns as a luxurious glamping experience with an educational twist

The explosion in screen time among the older set – including the 60-somethings already familiar with digital technology – is happening because, as they enter retirement, time spent on smart devices is rising.

Meet the real screen addicts: the elderly

The digital habits that defined youth are transforming old age