Peru’s new go-to attraction
— July 26, 2015Escape the tourist throng at Inca ruins, and support a site that provides a good living for its workers
Continue Reading ...Escape the tourist throng at Inca ruins, and support a site that provides a good living for its workers
Continue Reading ...Charlotte Merritt, bookseller-at-large for store where Nancy Mitford wrote two novels, sees a bright future for it in Hong Kong, with its ‘very well-educated and culturally engaged audience
Continue Reading ...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.
Continue Reading ...Women are making inroads into Asia Pacific’s senior management teams, but they need to be prepared to work hard, gain skills, ask for feedback and be resilient
Continue Reading ...Straddling the equator between Columbia and Peru, Ecuador may be the smallest Andean country but it’s packed with startling landscapes and exciting things to see and do.
Continue Reading ...Veteran diplomat Nicholas Platt and his eldest sons, film star Oliver and food critic Adam, talk about breaking bread to win hearts and minds, and discovering Western fare in Hong Kong. Kate Whitehead reports
Continue Reading ...Prosecco’s popularity is on the rise thanks to its easy-to-drink style: fruit-forward with a gentle fizz and kiss of sweetness. But how much do you know about Prosecco’s origins?
Continue Reading ...Hong Kong has long been a magnet for many seeking to make their fortunes. But does the city’s talent have what it takes to make its local businesses go global?
Continue Reading ...Massage, a translation of Chinese novel that won nation’s top literary prize, examines the relationships among blind masseurs and with the sighted
Continue Reading ...Reigning queen of pop Katy Perry is bringing her lavish stage show to Macau
Continue Reading ...In 1918, at a remote police station on Lantau, a cold-blooded killing by a Sikh constable left a baby without a father and a young mother a widow. With a new boutique hotel still bearing scars from the crime, Kate Whitehead delves into the death of Sergeant Thomas Glendinning
Continue Reading ...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.
Former civil servant becomes Hong Kong’s only dedicated author of adult genre
The London-based dissident novelist talks to Kate Whitehead about the Cultural Revolution, challenging the Party and finding a place to call home
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
Robbie Stamp recalls a brutal period of his life when he lost his firm, his father and his friend, and how making the 2005 film turned everything around Out of Africa My parents met and married in Johannesburg, South Africa. My father moved out there from the UK after the second world war with his first…
Jeff Rotmeyer grew up in Canada, excelled at sports as a child, then moved to teach English in Korea, where he met his wife, who moved with him to Hong Kong I was born in Surrey, outside Vancouver, in Canada, in 1977, and am an only child. My dad was born in Holland and came…