Home away from home in Hong Kong and reflections on the Singapore show

I can see our apartment but two red lines on a testing kit have been ensuring I cannot actually enter it since my return from France on Monday.

Buzzing like Korsakov’s bumblebee in Singapore

It’s great to be back in a city that shares the same nocturnal habits as my website.

Duty free but not free of duty in Taiwan

The sense of national and social duty, fundamental to the company’s ethos of the last 28 years, has never burned more brightly nor more urgently.

High times in Haikou

Talk about ‘The website that never sleeps’; this week it has never looked like getting a single wink.

Humming in Hong Kong and riding the waves in Wanning

I have written so many words about this beautiful island province since the pandemic began and to be unable to visit due to the crisis has been an immense professional frustration. Now the waiting is over.

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March 31, 2023

From Nobel Prize to Noble Panacea

British actress Jodie Comer (Killing Eve) is a Global Ambassador while Christy Turlington has just been named Noble Panacea’s new ‘Fundamental Changemaker in Residence’. Clearly not a brand that does things by halves.

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March 25, 2023

Poignancy, reunions and celebration in the Philippines

Exquisite. As was the wine selection, all chosen by Chim – a wine aficionado – from his extensive home cellar. Not quite so extensive by the time we finished.

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March 4, 2023

Marching on into another year

Just like those designer bags that declare ‘Paris – Rome – London – New York’, I am pondering new company branding featuring a logo that proclaims Ystradgynlais – Galway – Brentford – Discovery Bay. It’s got a certain finesse, you must admit.

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March 1, 2023

Rum, food and music – a cultural tour of discovery in Jamaica

On an extraordinary evening, each food course – typically Jamaican of course – was paired with an Appleton rum.

Quirky

January 16, 2023

Years of sorrow become tears of joy

Armed with my trusty Pokefi, I am seldom out of wi-fi contact. Trains, boats and planes, Ubers, it makes no difference. Heck, one day I might even get to post a story on a helicopter or in a submarine (though that would technically make me a sub-editor).

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