And so my readers will just have to take my word for it and my colleague stay with her husband. Yes, I did meet, chat and have my photo taken with Keanu Reeves. But like my life in general, the moment passed by in a blur.
Events
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.
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Events
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.
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Events
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.
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Events
High times in Haikou
Talk about ‘The website that never sleeps’; this week it has never looked like getting a single wink.
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Travel
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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Events
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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Events
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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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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Events
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.
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Quirky
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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Events
The moment the lights came back on in Hong Kong
Hong Kong – beautiful, vibrant, multi-cultural Hong Kong – is alive again. It has emerged from the age of darkness, a horrid and prolonged period and there will be – despite some bumps along the way – no going back.
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Events
Why the Wai beats the handshake every time in the COVID era
My throat feels like I have been dining on sandpaper and as a result I have a voice that makes Lee Marvin’s almost death rattle version of Wand’rin Star sound like it’s being sung by a boy soprano.