Mark has spent a decade as a freelance technology writer, reviewing audio products such as headphones and speakers, as well as Windows laptops.

The Fender Elie 12 is part boombox, part amp. At $399, it's priced to compete against powerful outdoor-friendly speakers like the Sony ULT Field 7. Surprisingly, given its smaller size and weight, the ...

Former clientele at the soon-to-shutter Bellevue Shelter on East 30th Street in Midtown included a slew of ex-cons and sickos, such as deranged stabber Ramon Rivera, who went on a 2.5-hour stabbing ...

Tok Batin Ayob points to the bamboo which is collectively harvested by villagers and sold in bulk. — Photos: AZLINA ABDULLAH/The Star THE morning mist had barely lifted, but Muhammad Fuad Abdullah, 69 ...

Between 1960 and 2000, Asian and Latin American food production tripled, thanks to the use of high-yielding varieties of crops. Africa can follow suit, but only if depletion of soil nutrients is ...