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What you want to know about business, life, news, and more. Our Asia bureau for @thisisinsider, based out of Singapore.
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Seoul's $322 million gambit to save the city from crushing loneliness won't fix the source of its problems
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The city authority said in October that it would be pouring 451.3 billion won, or $322 million, to combat the loneliness epidemic gripping the city.
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These are one of the oldest disposable cups in the world
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Meet Gautam Adani, the Indian billionaire and business tycoon who was just charged in a massive bribery case in the US
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Gautam Adani, the world's 18th-richest person, came under scrutiny from both US prosecutors and a major short-selling group in recent years.
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Gen Zers in China are picking 'gross outfits' over corporate glam because they don't get paid enough to look fly
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The hashtag "gross outfits at work" has been taking over Chinese social media platforms such as Douyin and Xiaohongshu.
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Women in China aren't having kids. We asked 3 of them to tell us why.
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"Let's face it, having a child is kind of like owning an investment with no guaranteed return for at least 18 years," one woman told Business Insider.
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A fascination with the so-called 'white girl aesthetic' of Stanley cups and Lululemon fits is taking over Chinese social media
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A government employee bought a wildly expensive sex doll to promote kimonos to tourists. Now the scandal's blowing up.
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An unnamed official at the Tokushima prefectural government thought buying a realistic sex doll, rather than mannequins, would be a crowd-pleaser.
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6 photos and stats that put into perspective the sheer size of Evergrande, China's dying real-estate giant that has $300 billion in debt
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Evergrande, China's second-largest property developer, had $300 billion in debt. That's equivalent to 1.5% of China's GDP.
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Stop frying toothpicks and eating them, South Korea tells Mukbang influencers
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"This is not a product to eat! Their safety as food has not been verified," South Korea's food ministry wrote on X.
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A Japanese man who made a living from letting people rent him to do absolutely nothing says he now does it for fun
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"What I do isn't really a business. Maybe it's best to think of it as something I'm doing for fun," Shoji Morimoto wrote on X.
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Meet the couple selling 2,200 pounds of spit-roasted pig every week from an artisanal cookhouse in the Philippines
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Zanoria and Batoon cook and sell around 2,200 pounds of pork belly and 40 whole pigs every week — and even more during festivities.
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I stayed in one of the best-rated hostels for backpackers in the Philippines, and it turned out to be a complete letdown
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There were ticks on the author's bedsheet, fruit flies, and gadflies buzzing around inside her room. Later, she found a dead cockroach next to a door.
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Passengers on an Air China flight had to brace for an emergency landing in a smoke-filled cabin after the plane's left engine caught fire
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All 146 passengers and 9 crew members were evacuated safely after the plane made an emergency landing in Singapore.
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I followed one of the world's most poisonous types of fish from the seafood market to a roadside stall in the Philippines, where it's turned into a $1.80 delicacy that's surprisingly addictive
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I flew to Pasil, Cebu, to spend a night at the market, and then a day at a restaurant, to see how pufferfish is prepared and served as a gourmet dish.
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I recently booked a night flight that ended up being delayed — here are 6 mistakes that made my experience worse than it had to be
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Next time, I'll make sure to fly carrying a bigger backpack filled with all my essentials, and not skimp on the in-flight add-ons.
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People in China have found a way to achieve the old money aesthetic on the cheap, with carefully curated stealth wealth-inspired looks for just $20
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China's influencers are curating quiet luxury looks for the broke Chinese millennial, proving you don't have to be rich to look rich.
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Singapore's been named the world's 6th Blue Zone. Some locals are skeptical.
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"You can live longer merely because of better medical support. But you are not healthy or happy," one Singaporean told Insider.
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New York Gen Zs are going wild for a stew that's been brewing for a month. Wait until they find out about Bangkok's 50-year-old soup.
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I took a 13-hour train ride to try Wattana Panich's perpetual soup in Bangkok. The flavor made it all worth it, even in scorching hot weather.
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8 packing essentials when traveling across Southeast Asia, according to our reporters
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Insider's reporters in Singapore have traveled across Southeast Asia and learned there are several things tourists need when exploring the region.
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People online are flaming a woman for saying she uses LinkedIn as a dating app: 'It's a professional platform'
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"Why am I using LinkedIn as a dating app? The filters!" Candice Gallagher said, adding that she's looking for doctors, lawyers, and finance bros.
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