Father Franco Mella helping the downtrodden
— September 27, 2015The Italian priest tells Kate Whitehead how became fascinated by China, was eventually barred, and how he has fought for the rights of the disadvantaged
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Fancy a laugh?
— September 9, 2015Local favourites joined by overseas comedians for ninth annual show
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Hong Kong Retailers Feel Rent Squeeze
— September 9, 2015Executives of luxury companies ranging from LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton to Tod’s Group all have addressed the rent situation in Hong Kong.
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Wayne’s world
— September 8, 2015With 95 food outlets across Hong Kong and Vietnam, Parfitts’ empire is a real family affair. Starting with a pizzeria in Sai Kung, Hong Kong, the Parfitts have built a hospitality empire in the city and in Vietnam. Now Wayne Parfitt is helping the next generation learn the business
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Enchanted Isles
— September 1, 2015When you come from a land where we politely refer to smog as fog and have to have our stomachs pumped if we fall in the harbour, the Galapagos Islands are quite simply a paradise
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The ties that bind
— March 22, 2015A pictorial book documents the last women in China with bound feet, writes Kate Whitehead
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The book that will make you want to visit Pakistan
— April 27, 2018British journalist Isambard Wilkinson, inspired by his Indian grandmother’s tales of life before partition, visited Pakistan as a teenager and fell in love with a complex place, a love he shares in his book Travels in a Dervish Cloak
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Hachette UK’s Tim Hely Hutchinson Sees Big Potential In Asia
— July 2, 2013HONG KONG: Asia is an important growth market for Britain’s second-largest publisher, Hachette UK. Sales in the region have grown faster than European markets and Group Chief Executive Officer Tim Hely Hutchinson sees no sign of slowing.
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The mask crusader
— May 5, 2020Gilly Strauss has been in the diamond business for more than 20 years. He was a founding member of luxury brand Hearts on Fire, which was acquired by Hong Kong-based Chow Tai Fook in 2014, and is now CEO of high-end jewellers Forms Jewellery. When we meet last week, he’s closing a tense deal. “The…
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Transcendental Meditation
— May 11, 2017At a recent lunchtime gathering in Central, TM instructor James Meade was asked what sets his HK$6,800 course apart; his response was surprisingly weak
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Hong Kong Protests Pinch Retailers
— October 31, 2014The pro-democracy demonstrations that have lasted here for just over a month show no sign of coming to an end