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Owning a Burberry trench coat or a Tesla car may be a pipe dream for many people, but international luxury brands are now giving China’s young gamers a taste of the high life in the virtual world. British fashion brand Burberry announced on Monday it has exclusively designed two “skins” – outfits worn by game characters – for Yao, a popular heroine from Tencent Holdings blockbuster Honor of Kings. The skins, created by Burberry chief creative officer Riccardo Tisci, will be available for purchase to all mainland Chinese players, although the prices have yet to be announced. “By allowing our Chinese customers to explore virtual products through the medium of online games, we can connect with our communities in a way that really resonates with them,” said Josie Zhang, president of Burberry China. Luxury labels are increasingly turning to video games to reach young consumers. Last year, French fashion house Louis Vuitton launched a capsule collection of League of Legends -themed ... » Learn More about From Burberry to Tesla, luxury labels borrow the star power of blockbuster games to reach young consumers

For such a small country, Singapore sure has a lot of property options and nuances – which can certainly be overwhelming for new home buyers and first-time investors. It doesn’t help that you can sometimes find contradictory information, from different websites and sources. The good news is, a lot of Singapore’s property market has moved into the digital space – and a lot of information you once had to pay for is now free (to a certain extent). Here are some of the more useful ones for personal research: 1. URA transaction data We’ll let you in on a secret: most property websites and agents all draw their transaction data from the same well – the URA transaction data service. Here’s how it works: When someone buys a property, the first step is often to secure the Option to Purchase (OTP). Once this is done, a caveat is lodged with URA. This information is made available to the public. This is because sellers are not supposed to entertain further offers once you have the ... » Learn More about 10 free property research tools to boost your chances of buying the right property

The internet continues to change everything. Whilst it’s creating entire new industries and jobs it’s also putting a lot of people out of work and killing older business models. Accelerating the changes is the rise and rise of smartphones as a source of just about everything. It’s an evolutionary digital disruption, as profound as the Industrial Revolution. The genie is out of the bottle and there’s no turning back. We can be nostalgic and try to assure ourselves that everything ‘was better in the old days’ but, in most cases, the newer internet deliveries of old business models are much better, more convenient and cheaper, or even free. Here are 10 industries that have been changed forever or completely killed off. 1) Telephones/Landlines There was a time when we spoke on a bakelite receiver, in a fixed location in our home. Or if you were really Gucci you might have had multiple phones scattered around the home (while we’re on telephone handsets, why is there always a ... » Learn More about Top 10 things the internet is changing forever

The Ever Given container ship that blocked the Suez Canal for nearly a week might slowly be on its way again, but it’s still not budging from the key trade route in Microsoft Flight Simulator. A new mod to the popular game, which allows players to fly planes across a highly accurate version of the planet in real-time weather conditions, has added in the spectacular Suez Canal scene, including the backlog of ships in the canal and the Gulf of Suez. ”Good thing [this] is flight sim and not ship sim otherwise [a] bunch of players would be annoyed as hell, ” tweeted Mat Velloso, technical adviser to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella with a video of a plane flying over the game’s version of the jammed cargo ship. Pilots who fly close enough can even see tug boats struggling to refloat the ship. The (real-world) Panama-flagged ship was successfully unstuck on Monday after days of pulling, towing and digging efforts by salvage teams working around the clock. However the Ever Given remains ... » Learn More about Suez Canal still blocked – at least in Microsoft Flight Simulator

Jordan military tells king’s half-brother to halt destabilising actions Jordanian King Abdullah’s half-brother and former Crown Prince Hamza bin Hussein has been told to halt actions used to target the country’s “security and stability”, the military said on Saturday. In a statement published on the state news agency, it said this was part of a broader, ongoing security investigation in which a former minister, a member of the royal family and unnamed others were detained. Army chief Yusef Huneity denied reports that Prince Hamza had been arrested but said he was told to “stop activities that are being exploited to target Jordan’s security and stability”. He did not specify what such actions were. READ MORE HERE 'Golden Parade' carries pharaohs to new home in Egyptian capital A procession of floats carried the mummified remains of 22 pharaohs, including Egypt's most powerful ancient queen, through Cairo on Saturday evening, in an eye-catching parade to a new ... » Learn More about While You Were Sleeping: 5 stories you might have missed, April 4