Chinese scientists have used real-world data to study submarines’ speed and surface wake, with unexpected results.
3. Hong Kong star Louis Koo sued over alleged failure to repay HK$8.3 million loan
4. Built to last, not on human skulls: Johor-Singapore causeway’s 100-year history
The Johor-Singapore causeway’s foundations were rumoured to contain human skulls and a huge hole was blasted out of it in WWII. But it survived – and just keeps growing.
5. Shanghai stay or Shanghai go? Foreigners return but aren’t settling like before
Two years after an extended lockdown of Shanghai under the nation’s dynamic zero-Covid policy led to an exodus of expatriates, mainland China’s most international city is finally re-embracing a bustle of overseas visitors. However, fewer are opting to stay and work.
6. Tips on ageing well from Singapore photographer, 58, who looks half his age
Singaporean fashion photographer Chuando Tan has garnered acclaim for his captivating images of his subjects, and of himself. With chiselled abs and a youthful visage, Tan looks far younger than his 58 years.
7. Is Miss Universe Philippines’ win a ‘hopeful’ shift in beauty standards?
When Chelsea Manalo, 24, was crowned Miss Universe Philippines on May 22, the Filipino American made history as the first Philippine winner of African-American descent. Manalo’s win was widely celebrated online as helping to usher shifting views on deeply held beauty standards in the Philippines, which has long focused on Western features such as fair skin.