TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Colombian pop star Shakira wore a headpiece designed by Indonesian accessory designer Rinaldy A. Yunardi in the music video for “Choka Choka,” her latest collaboration with Brazilian singer Anitta. “I am happy and proud to once again receive a request from Shakira to wear my work for the third time,” Rinaldy told Antara…
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – The recent hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius cruise ship has brought anxiety to communities worldwide, fearing a wider spread. Epidemiologist Dicky Budiman from Griffith University, Australia, explained the “core strategy” to prevent virus contamination from rodent droppings. According to Dicky, rat pest control in residential environments, especially during the rainy and flooding seasons,…
I can’t remember when I first became aware of the phrase: “Women are not small men.” But once I’d heard it, I started hearing it everywhere. Fitness types on social media kept alluding to it. Friends would talk excitedly about the new strain of female-specific exercise research, which was smashing the template we had all…
Eating one egg per day for five days a week can reduce a person’s risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease by up to 27%, according to a study. Eggs contain nutrients thought to support good brain health, including choline, which the body uses to make acetylcholine, a chemical that carries messages from your brain to your…
Lauren SamsFin editor, deputy editor AFR Magazine and fashion editor May 7, 2026 – 5.00am Since 1999, emerging designers from Fashion Design Studio – once known as East Sydney Tech – have presented graduate collections at Australian Fashion Week. The stage has acted as a launchpad for the likes of Anna Quan, Christopher Esber, Dion…
Headdresses have been making, well, headline news, thanks in part to one of the UK’s most famous wearers of headpieces, Isabella Blow, whose biopic The Queen of Fashion is due out this year. Issy, as she was known, saw them as not merely a fashion statement, but as an extension of her identity, famously saying:…
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Epidemiologist from Griffith University, Dicky Budiman, explained that hantavirus can be transmitted through inhalation of aerosols from dust contaminated with dried rodent urine, feces, or saliva from infected rats. One strain, known as Andes virus, can cause hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS), a severe respiratory disease. “Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome is a zoonotic disease from…
At 104 years Ratni Bai Chordia is deeply engaged with the world around her. Whether it is playing pallankuzhi for hours or reading the Hindi newspaper daily, the centenarian from Mylapore follows a steady routine. Long-time residents of Mylapore remember Ratna Mahal, the two-storied vintage building, on Bazaar Road and the family that lived there…
Is it possible to become healthier and feel better just by thinking? Sujata Bhatia, M.D., Ph.D., P.E., a physician, licensed chemical engineer, and professor at the University of Delaware, thinks so. “Mindfulness is a state of increased awareness of your thoughts, feelings, surroundings, and experiences on a moment-to-moment basis,” she says. “There is evidence that…
Public Health Wales has written to parents and carers of children attending primary schools in Barry, urging them to ensure both they and their children take extra care with handwashing, following an outbreak of Hepatitis A in the town. Hepatitis A is a viral infection affecting the liver which, in most cases, presents as a…
