A Unique Blend

How a surge in the Chinese population influenced Singaporean-Malay cuisine What do San Francisco and Dongguan have in common? Both are major worldwide boomtowns, but chances are you’ve never heard of the second one, whose population is already 10 times that of San Francisco. There are dozens of Chinese cities with populations of over one million people and more crop up … Read more

Nothing’s Free

By trying to lower the cost of flying, airlines may soon be charging passengers outrageous supplementary fees May 21, 2008 will forever go down as a dark day in aviation history. US carrier American Airlines became one of the first legacy airlines to borrow a page from the low-cost carrier playbook and charge passengers for checked baggage. Other airlines soon jumped on … Read more