You can almost picture the scene at Ramesh’s table as William Shakespeare opines “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players” and Oscar Wilde retorts, “The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast”
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Meet the Blue Sky thinker with Panda Blood in his veins
Upon learning about a girl who required o Rh negative blood after a car accident in another province, he rushed to contact the relevant hospital, encouraging the young patient with a microblog post declaring ‘Mr. Blue Sky is here to help!’
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Miscellaneous
Rain and shine, a room indoors and edging towards a revival
Our gathering evoked the value of the relationships that so many of us in the industry have forged over many years, and the trust and friendship that underpins them.
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Farewell Joe Porcelli
“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.” – St Francis
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The heroic tale of the WanderSafe wonder woman
“I made the tough call, and I am pleased to inform you that the prognosis is positive, the pain has been removed and I will walk again, on robotic feet.“
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Sergei Bozhok, the correspondent who got away
There may be no full moon in Paris tonight in the hauntingly aching words of Marianne Faithful but I suspect a figurative one at least has arrived early in Vladisvostok.
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How a chocolate called Pauline tells us that dumbing down in travel retail is a mistake
This underlines one of the key dilemmas facing travel retail as the sector emerges battered and bruised from the pandemic. Should consolidation of ranges spell the exclusion of new and exciting products such as Les Chocolats de Pauline?
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#Changedestiny – How Rikako Ikee returned to The Center Lane
“Now there’s a second Rikako Ikee – the leukemia survivor. I’m now capable of empathising with so many people. The very fact that I’m alive is in itself an immense experience.”
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Arise Sunil Tuli, man of steel
Unless Sunil’s own extreme magnetism sets off the airport metal detector, the titanium plate will not.
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Giving the all-clear to a new form of frontline face mask
“I lip-read a lot and I watch people’s mouths. So when people have masks on, I can’t lip-read. I have to say, ‘Please can you stand back and take off your mask’ because it’s impossible.”
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Food
Catching up with old friends for a last tango and the perfect re-torte
Through some exquisite contemporary design and advanced techniques, Arte by Padaria turns the humble cake into a culinary and artistic masterpiece.
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TVA in place but now free of duty – thank you and farewell Mr Danzka
‘If you only walk on sunny days you’ll never reach your destination.’ Over a near 50-year career, Torben has walked on plenty of both and cruelly, his final year in business coincided with the stormiest of them all.
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Miscellaneous
A silver-ferned devil in Hong Kong and a breath of fresh Presidential air at TFWA
What a difference a change of President makes. No, I’m not talking the US where sometime between now and Jo Biden’s inauguration day, Donald Trump will finally be prised like a limpet from a rock out of the White House.