https://www.scmp.com/rss/500594/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Before social media platforms became our preferred pools of toxicity, women had to wade through glossy magazines to feel bad about greying hair, stretch marks and their weight. Now, there’s TikTok’s “challenge” culture, in particular, its recent trend of “How old do I look?”. It’s like watching impalas on National Geographic playing near the lions: you know it is just a matter of time before there is an attack. Chinese tech company ByteDance’s wildly popular platform, which gets users to create... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3258016/it-time-call-code-red-tiktok-challenges-and-gen-zs-obsession-popularity-contests?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3258016/it-time-call-code-red-tiktok-challenges-and-gen-zs-obsession-popularity-contests?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 07 Apr 2024 02:00:18 +0000 Any time global rankings on cost of living, desirable passports, ageing well or education standards make the rounds online, Singapore invariably lands in the top 10. The latest edition of an annual UN-sponsored report found Singapore to be Asia’s happiest country for the second year in a row. These flattering numbers feed the brand reputation of the country: things work, everyone works, now get back to work. But they only show what we can do, not who we are. ‘It’s subjective’: is Singapore... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3257254/are-singaporeans-becoming-too-entitled-and-feeding-their-inner-karen?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3257254/are-singaporeans-becoming-too-entitled-and-feeding-their-inner-karen?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 30 Mar 2024 03:00:20 +0000 When it comes to managing personal space, Singaporeans have a pattern of behaviour that is best described with the colloquial modifier “die-die”. Tagged in front of an action, it’s hyperbole that means never caving into the official limit for that mode of behaviour – even to the point of death. As anyone who’s ever queued for anything in our crowded country can tell you, it’s simple. Someone leaves a gap, you “die-die must move in”. Good food? “Die-die must try.” To do it right, observe the... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3080094/singapores-boomers-havent-gone-mad-they-just-need-time-process?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3080094/singapores-boomers-havent-gone-mad-they-just-need-time-process?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 15 Apr 2020 12:13:27 +0000 Norwegian entrepreneur Svein-Erik Nilsen began his latest business venture with a trip to Singapore for the Masters of the Century seminar – just one stop on his calendar of self-help events worldwide. For the uninitiated, the two-day gathering in October at the Lion City’s Suntec Centre was the equivalent of a Coachella festival for celebrity motivational speakers, complete with a whooping 5,000-strong crowd fervidly taking notes. In between the tutorials, attendees networked or bought books,... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/lifestyle-culture/article/3043534/moneymakers-or-fakers-rise-asia-get-rich-quick-speakers?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/lifestyle-culture/article/3043534/moneymakers-or-fakers-rise-asia-get-rich-quick-speakers?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 29 Dec 2019 02:00:17 +0000 CSC Land Group Singapore This subsidiary of China Construction (South Pacific) Development Co Pte Ltd (CCDC), a regional branch of the China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC), is behind Twin VEW at West Coast Vale. It won the residential land parcel with a top offer of S$292 million (US$215.5 million) in 2017, outbidding eight others, including Chinese developers Nanshan Group and MCC Land. CSCEC, a 60-year-old Beijing-based construction company, is ranked third largest in the... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3006966/chinese-developers-watch-singapore?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3006966/chinese-developers-watch-singapore?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 21 Apr 2019 05:30:17 +0000 Within Singapore’s exclusive Sentosa Cove enclave is a two-storey house shaped like a grand piano, with a swimming pool on its roof, a living area that opens out to the waterfront, a black Rolls-Royce in the porch and a blue Bentley parked nearby. The property, on an 18,794 square-foot plot, put owner Cui Zhengfeng in the news in 2014, when he paid S$33 million (US$24.35 million) for it. The board chairman of the Hong Kong-linked Kingsford Development Pte Ltd is a Chinese national turned... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3006964/why-hong-kong-linked-kingsford-development-cant-sell-flats?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3006964/why-hong-kong-linked-kingsford-development-cant-sell-flats?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 21 Apr 2019 04:45:05 +0000