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Near and dear: Why one couple’s void deck wedding hit all the right spots

Mr Goo Kok Hwa and his bride, Ms Tina Lee held their wedding at the void deck of a Gangsa Road Housing Board block on May 23, 2026.

Around 20 injured after spraying incident in Tokyo mall: Officials

Emergency services workers working on scene in front of the Ginza Six shopping complex in Tokyo on May 25.

Japanese security guard finds fame as designer of duct tape signs

Mr Shuetsu Sato poses with duct-tape signs he made outside Shinjuku Station's east exit in Tokyo on May 1.

A man fell unconscious at a coffee shop. Life went on

What grinds our world to a halt may be just a brief interruption in someone else’s.

Provocative Austrian feminist artist Valie Export dies at 85

Austrian avant-garde artist Valie Export poses during a press preview of her exhibition 'VALIE EXPORT Retrospective' at the Albertina museum in Vienna, Austria, June 22. 2023. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger

No need to keep right: South Korea to urge people to stand on either side of escalator

Do we really need a campaign to tell us how to behave on public transport?

Posters featuring two cartoony characters accompanied by the caption “Don’t groom in public”, have begun appearing across trains, sparking a spirited debate.

Why South Korea’s local governments are trying to sustain bathhouses

A replica of a Korean bathhouse equipped with pools and saunas.

Applying make-up on the MRT? Poster sparks debate on personal grooming on public transport

A poster in a train carriage reminds commuters to be gracious while travelling.

France bans planned gathering of Muslims in Paris area, citing security risk

The Muslim faithful attend the Eid al-Fitr prayers, marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, at Stade Auguste-Delaune in Saint-Denis, near Paris.

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