I gave up my job to move abroad. Getting called out for being a 'woman of leisure' helped me find my new career.

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Emma Morrell used blogging to establish her new identity after moving abroad.

Emma Morrell

The 10 most expensive cities in the world

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Singapore, which is pictured above, and Zurich ranked as the most expensive among 173 cities analyzed.

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I've lived between Singapore and NYC my entire life. Here are 3 ways the latter is better, and one way it isn't.

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Singapore skyline; New York skyline from Brooklyn
Singapore and New York City are both great, but I prefer the latter.

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Take a look inside Singapore's public housing estates, where 80% of the resident population resides

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Wide angle, panoramic view of typical colorful public housing, also known as HDB flats, in Singapore heartland on a bright sunny day with cloudy blue sky.
Singapore's public housing apartments are also referred to as HDB flats.

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I split my time between Tokyo and Singapore. I don't consider myself a digital nomad, I'm a 'shuttler.'

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Austin Zeng visiting Japanese members of parliament at the House of Representatives building in 2023, as a representative for an NGO that supports foreign students in Japan.
Austin Zeng visiting Japanese members of parliament at the House of Representatives building in 2023, as a representative for an NGO that supports foreign students in Japan.

Austin Zeng

A Singaporean couple built 500 homes on the Ukrainian frontlines as the war raged around them. Here's how they did it.

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Taslim points to a house being delivered, while Lam poses in one of their container homes with two humanitarian aid partners.
Lam and Taslim have traveled to Ukraine seven times in the last two years.

Lam Baoyan and Rudy Taslim

An afternoon at the popular Chinese coffee chain that should be making Starbucks very, very nervous

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A Luckin Coffee branch in Singapore
A Luckin Coffee branch in Singapore.

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10 countries where talented workers are moving

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Zurich skyline
The Zurich skyline.

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It's starting to look like majoring in computer science isn't the road to the promised land of money and job security after all

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Joel Wong (pictured) is in his senior year at the National University of Singapore. The computer science major told Insider that job hunting has been challenging.
Joel Wong (pictured) is in his senior year at the National University of Singapore. The computer science major told Insider that job hunting has been challenging.

Joel Wong

I'm a 24-year-old straight-A student who has been obsessed with buses since childhood. I skipped college to work my dream job.

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Matthew Tay standing in front of a line of buses from his time volunteering for a different bus company and gaining his bus driver's license.
Matthew Tay during his time volunteering for a different bus company.

Matthew Tay

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