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Money Booster Campaign by Versa aims to boost users’ savings. — Picture courtesy of Facebook / SoyaCincau
Life / 02 May 2024

Malaysian digital wealth management application Versa introduces Money Booster Campaign to boost users savings

Far from the soaring skyscrapers synonymous with Hong Kong, scientists and farmers labour in a paddy field on the city’s outskirts to revive dormant rice varieties that once sprung from local soil. — AFP pic
Life / 02 May 2024

Hong Kong team plants seeds to safeguard legacy grains

Between crumbling concrete blocks and sweeping tarmac highways, slivers of verdant pocket parks are sprouting in Thailand’s capital Bangkok. — AFP pic
Life / 02 May 2024

Between Bangkok’s mega highways, ‘pocket parks’ sprout

Employees of the Louvre Museum install the painting ‘Liberty Leading the People’ (1830) by French artist Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863) back on its original spot after its restoration inside the Louvre Museum in Paris, on April 30, 2024. — AFP pic
Life / 01 May 2024

Iconic French painting to make comeback in true colours

Open from 10am to 10pm, the Cybertruck is on display at the showroom until Friday, May 17. — SoyaCincau pic
Life / 01 May 2024

Tesla Cybertruck Malaysia: Now available for public viewing at Pavilion Damansara Heights

Cotton used to create the tapestries are pictured on a unfinished tapestry at the Manufacture Senegalese des Arts in Thies on April 22, 2024. — AFP pic
Life / 01 May 2024

Senegal tapestry production finds new lease of life

Students have lunch the municipal Burle Marx school’s kitchen in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on April 4, 2024. Nearly one-third of children in Brazil are obese, an epidemic city health officials and community leaders are seeking to address in innovative ways, enlisting school cafeterias and taking their message of healthful eating to the street. — AFP pic
Life / 01 May 2024

Rio de Janeiro tests new recipe against childhood obesity

This picture taken in Paris on February 13, 2024 shows a general view of the ‘Salle Ovale Richelieu’ of the Richelieu-Louvois Library (Bibliotheque Nationale de France-National Library of France). France’s national library said on April 25, 2024, that it had removed four 19th-century books from its shelves whose emerald green covers were likely laced with highly poisonous arsenic. — AFP pic
Life / 01 May 2024

French national library quarantines ‘poisonous’ books

Paul Auster, the prolific American author whose works included ‘The New York Trilogy,’ has died of complications from lung cancer, the New York Times reported April 30, 2024. — AFP pic
Life / 01 May 2024

US novelist Paul Auster dies aged 77

US research suggests that air pollution is linked with stress and depression, putting under-65s at increased risk of dying from cardiovascular disease. — AFP pic
Life / 01 May 2024

Air pollution associated with increased risk of stress and depression, in turn affecting heart health

Deutsche Bahn may install privacy compartments on its high-speed trains. — Picture courtesy of Deutsche Bahn via ETX Studio
Life / 01 May 2024

Will you soon be able to sit in a ‘cuddle compartment’ on board German trains?

‘Boyfriend sickness’ is actually a normal process at the start of a relationship. — ETX Studio pic
Life / 01 May 2024

Is ‘boyfriend sickness’ really so unusual?

When traveling, internet users want to reconnect with their senses. — ETX Studio pic
Life / 01 May 2024

From adventure to quieter times, this year’s travel trends speak to the senses