CNA Lifestyle

2 days ago | cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com | Khoo Bee Khim

We don’t blame you for feeling slightly vulnerable when you’re eating out with people you hardly know. Whether you’re a loud chewer, soup slurper or double dipper, your manners and habits are all laid bare on the table for your dining companions to see and hear. Including some that others might think of as unusual – like separating the components of even the simplest dishes. A co-worker once shared how she would painstakingly compartmentalise each ingredient.

5 days ago | cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com | Khoo Bee Khim

Spit, drool, and more recently, hawk-tuah… all choice words associated with some rather unsavoury situations that involve saliva. As eek-inducing as this by-product of the mouth appears to be, your oral health would be in a very different state if not for your saliva. And your body knows that – it produces one to two litres a day, and enough to fill a bathtub in a year. In fact, during your lifetime, you could produce over 23,000 litres of saliva, according to Cleveland Clinic.

5 days ago | cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com | Reta Lee

Commune Wear is a Singapore shoe label that's slowly making a name for itself with its podiatry-friendly footwear. But its founder, May Chua, had belatedly discovered her passion for fashion and shoes in a rather unexpected manner in an unexpected place. The mechanical engineering graduate from Nanyang Technological University had found herself working in her father's trading and real estate business in Myanmar.

1 week ago | cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com | Grace Yeoh

A new voice may soon grace the airwaves: The winner of Mediacorp's 987 STAR 2025 competition, final-year psychology studies student from Temasek Polytechnic Georgina Pattarida Dobson. Dobson on Saturday (May 31) beat out the other three finalists – Lex Whitlock, Nicolette Callie Wee and Shaniah Kiew – in a two-hour grand finale to win the S$5,000 cash prize, courtesy of Fisherman's Friend, and a contract with Mediacorp 987.

1 week ago | cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com | Grace Yeoh

Learning a new skill that has nothing to do with your day job is the quickest way to be humbled. Or so I realised after attending a men’s haircutting course at the Kimage Hairdressing School earlier this year. I was influenced to sign up after seeing a friend, who’d finished the same course previously, use her newfound skills on her very trusting male partner.