for a serviced apartment in Phuket with a gym and pool. He says other expenses add up to $600, leaving a budget for weekend trips. Last year, I was running on empty. Decades spent as an editor in the ...

Malaysia’s proposed Urban Renewal Act (URA) aims to fast-track the redevelopment of ageing flats and dilapidated ...

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But they have also created some unlikely winners and losers across the region, from Mickey Mouse to pickled cabbage. The widening of South Korea's kimchi deficit - whereby the country imported more of ...

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“That day, I came home and cried,” said Benny Lam when describing an experience photographing grim living conditions in Hong Kong. After four years of visiting over 100 sub-divided flats in the city’s ...