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“Our target demographic is anyone who enjoys seeing a happy face,” summarised Jarrod Joshua, one of the 4 founders of make hay, sunshine!, a whole foods gift basket business.  make hay, sunshine! started out as a whole foods distributor and e-commerce platform until the founders later realised how big the …

Author’s Blurb: I’m a believer in the “adopt, don’t shop” movement. At home, we have 2 healthy dogs, both of whom we adopted from the streets a few years ago. The rest of their siblings were sent to shelters for adoption, as we only had the financial means to care …

“How often do we hear about being kind or showing more kindness?” After musing, Jamie Lee and her husband Deeps de Silva started an Instagram page to spread kindness and bring motivation to their followers. The Kind Friend‘s Instagram page was started in January 2019, and in less than a …

Much like BentukBentuk whose founders came from an IT background and now run a successful home decor business, Ikmal has a similar story. Coming from a decade-long career in the IT industry, Ikmal picked up the precise art of making Neapolitan pizzas for his wife in a wood-fired oven he …

One year-end holiday, Ooi Poh Mei had some free time on her hands and decided to learn how to clean eyes from her grandfather when she was 16.  Using ink, copper wire, a bamboo stick, cotton and a concoction of 10 different herbs, Poh Mei’s eye-cleansing family business, Hwang I …

Photo by LightField Studios / Shutterstock.com If you live in a place with high pollution levels, your risk of developing dementia might be substantially increased, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, found that among older Americans with cognitive impairment, those living in the …

Photo by Prostock-studio / Shutterstock.com Looking to cut costs in the new year? A streaming live TV service is offering two months of service at just $ 10 a month. Vidgo has more than 85 channels that you can watch on up to three devices at the same time. The …

After two years, Singapore’s hawker culture has made it into the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity list under the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). It joins the ranks of Indonesia’s angklung musical tradition, China’s Shadow Puppetry, and over 460 other items. According to the National Environment Agency (NEA), …

Alliance Images / Shutterstock.com Maybe you’ve heard a few nightmare tales about regifting — or lived them yourself. Ever received a present that has a gift tag with someone else’s name? That’s probably the No. 1 regifting goof. But there are ways to pull off a regift successfully — especially …