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Travelers from Singapore will soon have a new vacation option — one that doesn’t require a flight. A new Indonesian private island, named ONE°15 Marina Nirup Island, opened in July nine miles south of Singapore. The launch — the first of two phases — included the opening of a restaurant and bar, ferry terminal and

Twenty/20 After facing the reality of how expensive fresh flowers could be when planning her own wedding, Della Larca founded Florèal Blooms, her luxury silk flower rental business, three and half years ago from her basement in Butler, New Jersey. Larca’s business swelled last year, and she recently moved to a larger workspace to accommodate

In this article RACE-IT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Ferrari Original Factory Entrance Courtesy: Ferrari Ferrari on Wednesday said that its second-quarter profit jumped 33% from a year ago as more of its customers chose costly “personalization” options for their new sports cars. Ferrari also raised its guidance for the full year following the

In this article EXPE Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT An unusual summer scorcher or a new normal? Some travelers aren’t waiting to find out if this year’s heat wave in southern Europe is an anomaly or part of a longer-term pattern caused by climate change. Tom Marchant, co-founder of the London-based luxury travel operator

Actor Terry Crews learned the hard way that playing in the National Football League doesn’t guarantee a big paycheck.   After being drafted by the Los Angeles Rams in 1991, Crews spent five years bouncing between six professional teams, including one in Germany. During a practice squad stint with the Green Bay Packers in 1993,

President Joe Biden has a rule for his staff members: If you don’t take time off to tend to your personal life, you might get fired. Biden delved into the rule — which he developed as a U.S. senator — on a recent episode of life coach and former monk Jay Shetty’s “On Purpose” podcast.

As one of the original sharks on ABC’s “Shark Tank,” Barbara Corcoran is used to negotiating when she wants to land a deal. And having that skill has also come in handy when it’s come time for Corcoran to buy a new home. In a video tour released on YouTube last week, the real estate

Westend61 | Westend61 | Getty Images Access to personal cars remains important to Americans despite the growing monthly cost of ownership.  The average monthly auto payment reached $733, a new record, in the second quarter of the year, according to a report by auto site Edmunds. Seventy-eight percent of middle-income households earning between $47,000 to

Lourdes Balduque | Moment | Getty Images Target-date funds are meant as a one-stop shop for your retirement savings. But a key difference between fund brands means they may not be well-suited to all 401(k) investors — especially those close to retirement, financial experts said. Asset managers tweak the share of stocks, bonds, cash and

Morsa Images | E+ | Getty Images As interest rates reach a more than two-decade high, Treasury bill yields remain well above 5%, as of July 27, providing a competitive option for cash. With terms ranging from one month to one year, Treasury bills, known as T-bills, are still paying more than long-term Treasurys amid

I wanted a place with great weather, interesting culture, fantastic food and friendly people — and with plenty to see in a week. So I picked Vietnam, traveling from Ho Chi Minh City through the Mekong Delta area and on to Phu Quoc, an island in the Gulf of Thailand. Ho Chi Minh City highlights

Elon Musk’s Twitter rebrand could land him in legal hot water with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and others, experts say. On Sunday, Musk announced that he was getting rid of the Twitter brand and logo. The social media platform is now known as “X,” CEO Linda Yaccarino confirmed on Sunday. “X is the future state

Are you prepared? That was the question that many in the travel industry asked following China’s surprise reopening announcement in the final days of 2022. Many assumed that a torrent of travelers would be lining up to venture outside of China after three years of harsh “zero-Covid” policies.     Yet, many residents stayed home —

Luxury behemoth LVMH on Tuesday reported a surprising drop in U.S. sales in the second quarter, as its chief financial officer said “aspirational customers are not shopping as much as they used to.” LVMH’s U.S. sales slid 1% in the second quarter from the prior-year period. The disappointing results in the U.S. market came after

Leon Black, chairman and chief executive officer of Apollo Global Management LLC, at the annual Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., on Monday, April 27, 2015. Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images A Senate panel on Tuesday revealed a yearlong investigation into Apollo Global Management co-founder Leon Black‘s ties to

Travelers arrive at the departure hall in Singapore Changi airport in Singapore on March 31, 2023. Catherine Lai | Afp | Getty Images SINGAPORE — China will reinstate its 15-day visa-free entry for citizens of Singapore and Brunei from July 26, according to the embassies of both countries.  This comes after a three-year suspension of

That meeting could have been an email, says Mark Cuban. The billionaire investor, Dallas Mavericks owner, “Shark Tank” personality, author and father of three doesn’t have much time to waste. And he thinks meetings are the number one workplace habit killing people’s productivity and eating away at their time. In a conversation with bestselling author

Mark Cuban believes he became a billionaire because he’s been hustling and selling since childhood. Now it seems that his teen son might have inherited a similar outlook. Cuban recently bragged about his 13-year-old son Jake’s side hustle selling candy at school on an episode of comedian Kevin Hart’s Peacock talk show “Hart to Heart.”

Barbara Corcoran knows what it takes to catapult your career to the next level. In her 20s, the multi-millionaire worked as a receptionist for the Giffuni Brothers’ real estate company in New York City. She later founded her own residential real estate company, The Corcoran Group, with just $1,000 — and later sold it for

The so-called “cage match” between billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg may or may not ever happen. But the two tech moguls are already waging battle for social media users. Zuckerberg’s found early success luring dissatisfied Twitter users to his new competitor, Threads, which launched earlier this month and quickly amassed 100 million users within