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One of the latest trends in agriculture may be vanilla cultivation, where high-value vanilla crops sales have gone up to RM6 billion in 2018 globally. In fact, SEA alone has transacted more than RM600 million in vanilla. That’s according to Kairos Agriculture, a vanilla farm in Penang. Though, they’re faced …

Handmade parcels and handwritten letters are always a little more special because of their personal touch. Those extra details tell me the amount of effort that went into making these things look presentable to me, which I appreciate. Kurukynki, a stamp producer in Malaysia, is a startup that helps with …

Fresh figs are a rarer sight in supermarkets, and when you find them, chances are that they’re usually not all that sweet. But why? According to Lawrence and Cheah, co-founders of Figara11, the imported figs sold in supermarkets have to be picked from their trees before ripening. It’s because fully …

FortyTwo is the largest online furniture retailer in Singapore, boasts co-founder Naveed Lee. When the 42-year-old worked as a retail executive in a furniture showroom back in 1998, he noted the low efficiency of the traditional furniture business, which in turn caused high mark-ups in product prices. In 2002, he …

HealthMetrics recently announced their success in securing a total of US$ 5 million (RM20.8 million) as part of its Series A funding.  The round was led by ACA Investments, one of Asia’s leading investment groups from Japan with over US$ 1 billion assets under management. Established in Malaysia in 2015 …

A Singaporean superfoods company has made it to the Financial Times’ list of high-growth firms in the Asia Pacific. In Singapore, it is also listed in Singapore’s top 100 fastest-growing firms. Called Nature’s Superfoods, it is predominantly an online business, selling everything from quinoa to chia seeds, and exporting them …

Long-term malnutrition might at first seem like a medical condition with an easy fix: access to a wholesome diet rich in calories and nutrients. But many of the children on the receiving end of such interventions still struggle to grow. Even when given enough to eat, they end up shorter …

Planarians have unusual talents, to say the least. If you slice one of the tiny flatworms in half, the halves will grow back, giving you two identical worms. Cut a flatworm’s head in two, and it will grow two heads. Cut an eye off a flatworm — it will grow …

The threat of coronavirus has tormented us in many ways, but perhaps this is one of the most profound: Deciding whether to start or expand a family has suddenly become even harder. While there’s never a perfect time to have a baby, getting pregnant during the pandemic isn’t the scenario …