Health and Fitness

Since 45 years, MAMA noodles are part of the daily diet in Thailand, and the brand is widely regarded as the queen of instant...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte got serious with his plans to ban public smoking all over the country by signing a respective executive order on...

The Malaysian national football team, which is due for a qualifier game for the AFC Asian Cup 2019 with its North Korean counterpart on...

With this year's Global Summit of the World Travel & Tourism Council being held in Thailand's capital Bangkok on April 26 and 27, the...

In its quest to become a future-oriented, innovative economy, Thailand is putting the focus on one of the things in which the country already...

Cambodian authorities have stopped a Utah, US-based company with the peculiar name of Ambrosia Labs from selling human breast milk harvested from women in...

Malaysia is set to welcome around one million health travelers in 2017, up from 860,000 last year, and generate respective revenue of $292 million, ...

Malaysia, one of the few countries globally that have close diplomatic relations with North Korea and of the even fewer ones for which North...

Thailand, a country known for its tolerance towards transgender, gay and lesbian people, is forced to deal with a publicly quite unregarded problem that...

Thailand's southeast is not just home to the country's most developed industry clusters, it is also an agricultural hot spot where exotic fruits and...

While April in Thailand is typically hot and sweaty, this year, it is super-hot. The mercury in some of the worst affected northern provinces...

Singapore tops the list of happiest countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, in the World Happiness Report 2016, which was...

Thailand isn't normally known to be a social welfare paradise, but at least smoking should now become more affordable for the less fortunate. The...

With medical travelers mainly hailing from the Middle East, Africa and Asian countries, and a smaller portion from the US and Europe, health tourism...

One of the more interesting aspects of modern day medicine has been its versatility wherein materials that were originally developed for use in manufacturing...

The Asian Development Bank is supporting countries across Asia-Pacific in reforming and updating their healthcare systems, which requires proper management and funding. ADB health expert Dr Susann Roth goes...

Hazy conditions in Singapore, a result of forest and peatland fires caused by slash-and-burn techniques used to clear land for farming and plantations on...

Doctor-patient miscommunication is the most common cause of complaints and failure of communication is an important cause of medical errors. But empathy is another...