Kate Whitehead

Anyone over a certain height is at risk of losing an eye in the city If you’re five foot eight or taller, the rainy season can be a dangerous time. I nearly lost an eye last week. The man toting the umbrella that crashed into my face didn’t even break stride. Surely that counts as…

An expert, herself one half of a dual-career couple, spent six years interviewing couples around the world at different career and life stages It’s a Wednesday evening and the crowd squeezed into a small function room at Hong Kong’s exclusive China Club are alumni of the Insead business school. Mostly in their 30s and 40s,…

Taiwanese bookstore Eslite is expanding at a time when bookstores around the world are folding.

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.

Physicist Michael Johnson is drumming up support and funding for his project, to launch tiny spacecraft into space and to the moon

What is it? A brand new 266-room hotel on its own island (below) within the Venice lagoon. Isola delle Rose is an artificial island, built in the 19th century, and JW Marriott spent several years transforming what had been a sanatorium before the hotel opened in March.