Get to da choppa! In order to beat Manila’s infamous traffic jams, Ascent Flights Global is launching a helicopter-hailing service for those who need to get to their destination, ASAP. The company also plans to expand its services to other cities, Kuala Lumpur included, very soon.

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The effect of agriculture and livestock on the environment has not gone unnoticed, with culinary innovators designing a wide variety of potential alternatives. But can consumers get over their squeamishness regarding lab-grown meat enough to make it our new normal?

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Gamification is a concept dedicated to incentivising and revitalising the workplace, but does it truly help with employee productivity? Or does gamification have a darker side?

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Google’s TVC—short for Temporary workers, Vendors, and Contractors—took home a victory today in the form of an increased minimum wage and some basic benefits. Hooray! Unfortunately, the TVCs currently working at Google probably won’t be around to see any of them.

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Job titles come and go with the times, but no one expected the modern-sounding ‘Chief Digital Officer’ to enter the endangered species list so soon. Although data, social media, and tech continue to (heavily) influence the way companies operate, there seems to be a declining need for this one specific role in the office.  

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Companies have been hiding read receipts in your emails for decades. Now everyone’s doing it. Here’s how to shut that down.

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Increasingly, the most important issue for everyday internet users is privacy—and rightly so. In today’s connected world, we’re being tracked and surveilled more than ever by everyone from search giants and social media companies to ISPs and advertising firms.

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Singapore is set to introduce a new anti-fake news law, allowing authorities in the city-state to remove articles deemed to breach government regulations.

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It’s that “free year” you took after a 6-month internship. It’s that two-year freelancing phase. And maybe it’s the 15-month break you took from work to complete a course. Whatever the case, explaining the gap in your resume can get tricky and maybe even slightly awkward, so here’s how you can do it well.

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We’re following up on an article that we talked about last week - about how there’s less than a 5% success rate for fresh graduates getting an interview. We speak to Avinash Kumar, Monroe Consulting, to get a recruiter's point of view.

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