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Singapore’s transport firm ComfortDelGro’s ride-hailing service is now available for booking via the Lazada app. The new booking service is placed alongside Lazada’s hallmark features like LazMall, RedMart and LazLive. Screenshot from Lazada The e-commerce giant routinely had various partnerships with ComfortDelGro. For example, it offered S$ 5 off to …

Transport company ComfortDelGro made its first foray into the lifestyle scene with the launch of a new app offering last week (March 9). Called Zig, it allows users to book a taxi, plan their journey, make dining or hotel reservations, place click-to-collect orders at food and beverage outlets, find deals, …

Photo by alexkich / Shutterstock.com A good book can provide distraction and take you to places you’ve never been. And we can all use a little escape right about now. Whether you’re a traditionalist who gravitates toward old-fashioned hard covers and paperbacks or you prefer more modern e-books or audiobooks, …

When Fariha Róisín was 12, the idea for what would eventually become her first novel came to her in a dream. She didn’t have all the words for all that she wanted to say, but she started anyway. Now, at 30, and with a body of poetry, personal essays and …

Dr. Seymour Schwartz, an eminent surgeon and prolific polymath who was the founding editor of the 1,800-page surgery textbook, first published in 1969, that became a bible for medical students, died on Aug. 28 in St. Louis. He was 92. Dr. Schwartz died at the home of his son Dr. …

Chasing down your favourite celebrities, paying for meet and greet sessions or stalking them on social media are just some of the things you might have done to get their attention. With Authentic Celebrity Experiences (ACE), these moves to get personalised interactions with celebrities are no longer necessary. ACE allows …

I’ve always loved to read but since the Pandemic, I’ve been reading even more. There aren’t a lot of places to go and what better way to escape the current conditions than in a book? Books take us places we’ve never been and let us have experiences we may not …

Photo by Dragana Gordic / Shutterstock.com Summer’s the season we dream of all year — surely, those hazy, lazy, carefree days will allow us to somehow wring out more time to read. Whether it’s a frothy paperback smudged with Coppertone and savored on a sandy beach or an electronic thriller …

Uber is introducing an option that allows riders in the U.S. to book trips by the hour, the latest in a string of offerings the company has launched to offset the impact of the pandemic. Uber has in recent weeks been trialing its new hourly service in a handful of cities …