The government will spend about US$75 million on incentives for dog breeders, farmers and restaurants to shut their businesses

IT LOOKS like any other 3D printer – except it is the size of a crane and is, layer by layer, building a hotel in the Texan desert.

SIXTY-year-old British adventurer Neil Laughton has set a new record for the highest-altitude cycle ride after pedalling a fold-up bike on top of a 7,246-metre Nepalese peak.

MANY surveys over the last few years seem to lead to the same conclusion – that Singapore employees are stressed, sleep-deprived and burnt out. Not only do they clock the longest hours every week in the Asia-Pacific, new research shows that nearly a quarter of them often work past official hours. No wonder Singapore workers are also the most sleep-deprived in the world.

EUROPEAN soccer’s governing body Uefa said on Tuesday (Sep 24) it would increase the funds allocated to clubs not taking part in men’s continental competitions, also capping the amount going to the top five federations.

A NEW exhibition exploring the vast network of the Silk Road trade routes opens at the British Museum in London this week.

TIKTOK plans to discontinue its music service in November, ending a years-long experiment to compete with Spotify Technology and Apple.

UNIVERSAL Music Group has set up a label division in the Greater Bay Area surrounding Hong Kong, giving the world’s largest music company a bigger foothold in China’s south.

MANY digital news publishers have been desperately searching for a life raft. Traffic to news sites has fallen sharply, along with the ad revenue those clicks generate, partly because Google and Facebook decided to make news less prominent on their platforms.

“A bird may sing in Kabul, but a girl may not, and a woman may not in public,” says the Oscar-winning actress