This book describes the personal and professional wreckage through which people are victims of the so-called mobbing, or psycho-terror at work, which destroys the working capacity and psychological resistance of those who suffer it.You have in your hands a practical self-help guide to recognizing the problem and learning to identify it in time, responding to it proactively rather than reactively.The ways that bullying involves are described, as well as the typical character...

This book describes the personal and professional wreckage through which people are victims of the so-called mobbing, or psycho-terror at work, which destroys the working capacity and psychological resistance of those who suffer it.You have in your hands a practical self-help guide to recognizing the problem and learning to identify it in time, responding to it proactively rather than reactively.The ways that bullying involves are described, as well as the typical character...

'The foreign devils will be entranced by our performance and line our path back to Shandong with gold and cherry blossoms…'Shandong Province, Northern China. Times are tough in Horse Shoe Village. Old Six and Second Moon struggle to earn enough to feed their young child. Big Dog struggles to overcome opium addiction and for Eunuch Lin, the fall of the Imperial Dynasty couldn't have come at a worse time. Could a fierce war far away in Europe present an op...

'Serial killers turn up all the time in crime fiction, but few are as patient or as devious as the murderer in Zhou Haohui's Death Notice. This extraordinary novel is the first in a trilogy, and it is already China's bestselling crime series to date' Sunday Times.After the death of 'Eumenides', a former police student who was sending 'death notices' to unpunished criminals before brutally murdering them, the Chengdu Police Department assumed that the killing spree would stop. But t...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man who wants to receive his bride on their wedding day must overcome hellish obstacles designed by a sadistic gaggle of bridesmaids in a traditional activity popularly termed as 'gatecrashing'. Contrary to popular belief, gatecrashing is hardly a time-honoured Chinese wedding tradition. So how did this activity attain its hallowed position in Singapore Chinese culture today? A writer attempts to find out how gatecrashing in Singapore came abou...

Someone wants Gabriel Wolfe to suffer ...Just when life deals SAS veteran Gabriel Wolfe a decent hand, his best friend is murdered. And Gabriel’s in the frame for the crime. Struggling to come to terms with her death, he finds his world collapsing around him.A list of destructionHalf-way round the world, a woman calling herself Erin Ayers has made a list of all the people Gabriel cares about.Erin is rich, po...

With JianHao, the cameras are always rolling, as if he were in a Singaporean version of The Truman Show. But unlike Truman Burbank, who—spoiler alert—is unaware that his life is being broadcast to the whole world as a television show, JianHao never loses sight of the fact that millions of eyes are trained on him with a laser-sharp focus. Thus, regardless of how much he wants to be able to introduce himself as the dude "who makes fun YouTube videos", he can't—and won't—shed the identity he ...

Bloomberg calls it the world's most valuable liquor but it remains a total mystery to most Singaporeans, who've never encountered it in any way, shape or form. Baijiu (literally 'white liquor') is a high-proof, distilled spirit made from Sorghum—a grain that is often planted in parts of China where rice grows poorly, and acquiring a taste for it takes time and many bottles. © 2020 by Rice Media. Published online in Singapore by Rice Media, recorded by Storyside 2020.

Gabriel Wolfe used to kill for the government. Before that, he served in the SAS.Now someone has taken his sister.Tara Wolfe lives quietly in Paris these days. A long way away from the years she spent running one of Hong Kong’s most ruthless triads. But people like Tara don’t get to disappear forever. Sooner or later, the past comes looking.And when it does, it comes hard.With only days to find her, Gabriel is forced back in...

As careers go, it doesn't get more exciting or glamorous than 'London-based advertising executive.' The money is excellent, the job scope is interesting, and come on, for chrissake, it's London. But for Bjorn Low, who held that enviable position of London Ad Man, success had become routine. After 7 years of hustling, he reached the senior echelons but he desperately wanted to do something else with his life. The turning point came when Bjorn and his wife left for the English countryside. H...

Extreme forms of dieting are not uncommon within the fitness community. There are people who bring their own food to buffets, or completely abstain from sustenance for hours if not days (read: intermittent fasting). So how do fitness enthusiasts who boast thousands of followers on Instagram manage to keep up with strict diets and gruelling 6-days-a-week training routines (AND documenting it on Instagram) without going crazy like a certain RICE Media writer? © 2020 by Rice Media. Published ...

Three men walk into a hawker centre and ordered the same combination of dishes: beef rendang and long beans, all atop a mountain of white rice drizzled with lontong gravy from the nasi padang stall. They discovered that they were charged different prices for their plate of rice, despite ordering the exact same thing, from the exact same stall, and the exact same makcik. Welcome then, to the curious world of "Malay pricing". Known to Singaporeans as a racially-motivated form of price discri...