Times are hard. Over the past year, we’ve seen many individuals starting their own home businesses to earn extra income from the first MCO. On a recent online shopping experience, my boss came across a merchant on Lazada selling what is claimed to be an original branded paper bag from …
Read More »Their Business Is Built On Making Offensive Bags & Giving All Profits To M’sian Charities
Anything can be taken as offensive to someone, even more so nowadays in the age of keyboard warriors. Thus, we watch our words and try to understand delicate social contexts in order not to cause conflict. But out there is one Malaysian startup making products that are intentionally meant to …
Read More »This S’pore Brand Conquers The Gourmet Snack Market, Sold 1M Bags Of Truffle Chips In 2 Years
In 2018, three brothers — Kenny Chan, 35, Johnathan Chan, 32 and Kayson Chan, 29 — saw an opportunity to bring in sophisticated gourmet food inspired by Italian culture into Singapore. The trio realised that consumers are getting more and more sophisticated with their choices of food. They then started …
Read More »California Lifts Ban on Plastic Bags Amid Virus Concerns
Retailers in California can once again hand out free single-use plastic bags under an executive order announced on Thursday by Gov. Gavin Newsom, the latest turn away from reusable bags amid the coronavirus outbreak. The order permits stores to provide customers with disposable plastic bags for the next 60 days. …
Read More »70 Died at a Nursing Home As Body Bags Piled Up. This Is What Went Wrong.
When the coronavirus outbreak hit one of the largest and most troubled nursing homes in the Northeast, coughing and feverish residents were segregated into a wing known as South 2. The sick quickly filled the beds there, so another wing, West 3, was also turned into a quarantine ward. But …
Read More »The Makeup Bags Of Glossier HQ: Extreme Makeover Edition
At Glossier HQ, we’re no stranger to sharing what we’re stocking our makeup bags with, but this year, we decided to take a more solution-oriented approach. The concept was simple: we asked our colleagues about their makeup bags—what they liked about their current one and what they might be looking …
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