Kate Whitehead

Realtors predict the city’s rents will bottom out in the second half

If it sounds more like a bar than a hotel, that’s because it was. For a long time, Café Royal was a place to see and be seen for the people of London.

Duncan Clark, a former Morgan Stanley investment banker and author of Alibaba: The House that Jack Ma Built, set out to write about the company but inevitably stories about its founder feature – including how a holidaying Australian family bought Ma his first flat

Local employees work the most overtime in Asia, says survey

The power had gone out. I was lying on the floor in the pitch black, listening to waves crashing on the beach outside, wondering whether the late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il had heard similar sounds as he fell asleep here.

Initially, the reality TV star turned celebrity DJ (or her PR team) wanted the most minimal interview possible ahead of her gig in Macau. But in person Hilton was more forthcoming than expected