New Palestinian city rises with sleek homes, boutiques
The newly built Palestinian city of Rawabi is the culmination of a decades-long dream for developer Bashar al-Masri.
Singaporeans with appetite for destruction get 'rage room' relief
The room lets stressed-out people take a baseball bat to items ranging from glass bottles to televisions.
Ex Vietnam MP jailed for stealing US$16m housing deposits
Chau Thi Thu Nga sold hundreds of apartments to prospective homeowners starting from 2009, though the project was not licensed and the properties were never built.
Botanical gardens a lifeboat for threatened plants
Plants are essential for life on Earth. They play a crucial role in regulating the climate, maintaining soil fertility, and the purification of water and air.
Los Angeles tests cooling pavement paint to beat heat
Can a splash of grey pavement paint help combat global warming?
It's official: the Obamas are Washington homeowners
Former US president Barack Obama and his wife Michelle initially decided to stay in Washington once he left the White House so their daughter Sasha could finish high school.
Sarawak wants quicker way to develop NCR land
The model would be about leasing such land based on fixed monthly rental.
World's tallest building delayed to 2019: Saudi prince
The completion date for the world's tallest tower has been pushed back to 2019, a Saudi Arabian billionaire said.
Mice infested human settlements 15,000 years ago
As soon as hunter-gatherers began settling down rather than roving from place to place, house mice began to edge out their wild counterparts, said the study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer-reviewed US journal.
Malaysia, Singapore ink deal on high-speed rail link
"I know people are excited about it," Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said, adding the project would "open a new landscape in terms of bilateral relations".
