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My 27-Hour vacation in Singapore's Changi airport
Singapore's Changi is part theme park, part futuristic pleasure dome. And while an airport is typically a swinging door between where you've been and where you're going, Changi is the rare one that invites you to stay
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Forbes Asia names Azim Premji Asia's most generous philanthropist
Forbes Asia announced its annual Heroes of Philanthropy list of 30 altruists in the Asia-Pacific region, which includes Jack Ma, Biocon's Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw and her husband John Shaw and tech entrepreneur Atul Nishar
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A timeline of Google's incredible journey as Page and Brin step down
What started out as a project called 'Backrub', and how it evolved into the $100 billion+ company, Alphabet
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Google's Sundar Pichai named CEO of parent Alphabet, as cofounders step aside
Larry Page and Sergey Brin step down from their management roles, but will remain on Alphabet's board and as shareholders and founders
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Saudi Arabia embraces western sports to rehabilitate global image
Saudi Arabia made sports a priority in 2016, but the push comes with complications. Western businesses have faced boycotts amid accusations that they are aiding a public relations initiative from an oppressive Saudi government
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Indian engineer helps NASA find Chandrayaan-2 moon lander crash site
Shanmuga Subramanian, an Indian computer programmer and mechanical engineer who scoured the lunar surface in his spare time, reported his findings to NASA scientists, who confirmed that the debris he saw were of the ISRO Vikram lander
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Amazon Web Services opens quantum computing centre, unveils new services
The cloud computing services provider has also opened a solutions lab to help customers experiment with the latest in quantum computing
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Ayodhya sees exponential rise in property prices after SC verdict
Unfavoured for years due to the dispute, areas in and around the proposed Ram Mandir have now multiplied in value; experts caution that haphazard development to keep up with demand could lead to serious infrastructure issues in the long run
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Accel India raises $550 million fund, its largest ever
The corpus will give the firm, which was an early investor in companies like Flipkart and Swiggy, significant heft to participate in follow-ons
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In Prince Andrew scandal, Prince Charles emerges as monarch-in-waiting
The 71-year-old Prince Charles has been moving aggressively to assert his control, most conspicuously in trying to mop up the recent scandal that engulfed his younger brother, Prince Andrew, about his friendship with disgraced financier and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein