Month: February 2021

It was an aerobics routine with a difference – a front-row seat to a coup in progress. A video of a Burmese woman doing a dance workout outside Myanmar’s parliament building while armoured vehicles mass in the background has gone viral, garnering more than 10 million views on social media, with users pointing out her seeming obliviousness to the military activity.But even as the video racked up views on Twitter and Facebook, it was Indonesian internet users who highlighted the significance of…

Businesses involved in the planning, design, construction, operation and maintenance of buildings should develop their own data strategies, and help shape one for the buildings themselves, in a drive to improve building safety.

A senior North Korean diplomat who was acting ambassador to Kuwait told his daughter they were going to defect to the South while pretending to drive her to school, Ryu Hyun-woo told media on Monday.“Come with Mom and Dad to find freedom,” Ryu recalled telling his daughter, in an interview with CNN.The teenager was “shocked” at the sudden suggestion that would change their lives, but responded “okay”, he said – and he took them instead to the South Korean embassy.Lingerie, secret tunnels and…

In 1971, a sprawling university campus north of Manila became the site of a student-led uprising as public anger over surging oil prices reached its peak.On February 1, the students and some teaching staff came out in sympathy with striking transport workers, boycotting classes and barricading themselves inside the University of the Philippines’ (UP) Diliman campus for eight days against soldiers firing tear gas and a professor who shot and killed a student.The uprising, which came to be known…

Singapore’s government will launch five measures to build up Singapore as a global and regional e-commerce hub, according to trade and industry minister Chan Chun Sing.