September2018

Passengers were forced to swim for their lives on Friday when an airliner ditched into a lagoon after missing the runway on a remote Pacific island and immediately began sinking. The Air Niugini Boeing 737 was...

Asian markets rose on Friday, tracking a rally on Wall Street where investors were buoyed by the Federal Reserve’s positive outlook for the US economy, and oil added to gains with predictions it could be headed...

Bangladesh ranks 161st in the world for its investments in education and healthcare as measurements of its commitment to economic growth, according to the first-ever scientific study ranking countries for their levels of human capital. The...

Popular online ride-sharing and ticketing platform Shohoz raised US$15 million pre-series B investment led by Singapore’s Golden Gate Ventures. It will use the fresh capital for customer acquisition and retention of its ride-sharing business, and expand...

Marriott International has brought back ‘Run to Give’ charity run on September 23, 2018. This year Le Méridien Dhaka and Four Points by Sheraton joined efforts for ‘ASHIC Foundation’, a non-profit organization, which has been dedicating...

India’s 100th airport, inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the northern-eastern state of Sikkim on Monday, is arguably one of the world’s most beautiful. Sikkim, a tiny former kingdom in the Himalayas, is home to...

Two separate studies on Monday report successes with epidural electrical stimulation in helping paralyzed patients regain the ability to walk. As reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers enrolled four patients who experienced spinal...

Ride-hailing firm Grab said on Wednesday it would stop offering car-pooling services during late-night hours in Singapore after drivers complained about some passengers being drunk and argumentative. Citing feedback from drivers who described intoxicated commuters vomiting...

U.S. regulators are considering banning the online sales of e-cigarettes, the head of the Food & Drug Administration Scott Gottlieb said on Tuesday. Gottlieb, speaking on a panel discussion on vaping that was arranged by Axios,...

Daimler, the German car maker that owns Mercedes-Benz, will be run by a non-German for the first time next year. Dieter Zetsche, 65, will be replaced by Ola Kaellenius, a 49-year-old Swede, as chief executive in...