The group estimates that about 40,000 merchants will participate in this year’s festival, including luxury brands such as Burberry, Paul Smith, Estee Lauder, L’Oreal and Guerlain.
Festival is finally rebounding, with cheaper tickets, a focus on non-fiction and star names including Hanya Yanagihara, Adam Johnson, Hong Kong-based Frank Dikotter and Lionel Shriver
Produce that is harvested when ripe and only travels a short distance will have higher nutritional value and the best flavour, so try to buy fruit and vegetables in season; consider frozen veg too
Christine Negroni believes lack of oxygen on the flight deck from decompression and the first officer’s failure to don his oxygen mask in time led to the loss of the Malaysia Airlines flight in 2014, although hers is one of many theories
Paula Bronstein has spent years depicting the lives and suffering of ordinary Afghans, with a focus on women who attempt suicide to escape forced and abusive marriages
Annual Community Business report marking International Women’s Day highlights slow progress in rectifying gender imbalance on boards, and founder Shalini Mahtani says companies should call time on the old boys’ network
Australian former journalist Kerry McGlynn, the man behind Hong Kong’s branding as Asia’s World City, recalls the last British governor’s ‘amazing’ sense of humour and how the ‘heavens wept’ when Chinese rule resumed
Chocolate is good for you – and, as Kate Whitehead discovers, tramping through the Amazon rainforest on a tour of Ecuadorean cocoa farms can be just as gratifying
As chief exterior designer at Porsche, Hong Kong-born Pinky Lai Ping won plaudits for reworking the 911. After leaving the German firm, he’s setting course for China with a high- performance plug-in car on the cards.