Fabien Ferré (left) celebrates the award of three Michelin stars for his restaurant La Table du Castellet in southeast France with Jérôme Banctel, whose restaurant, Le Gabriel, just elevated to three-star status in the 2024 Michelin Guide France. Photo: AFP
Food and Drinks

3 Michelin stars for a new head chef? Guide to France dishes out awards

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The 2024 Michelin Guide France dished out first or additional stars to 62 restaurants. Fabien Ferré, 35, earned three stars, the highest ranking, just months after opening his restaurant.

Fabien Ferré (left) celebrates the award of three Michelin stars for his restaurant La Table du Castellet in southeast France with Jérôme Banctel, whose restaurant, Le Gabriel, just elevated to three-star status in the 2024 Michelin Guide France. Photo: AFP

3 Michelin stars for a new head chef? Guide to France dishes out awards

The 2024 Michelin Guide France dished out first or additional stars to 62 restaurants. Fabien Ferré, 35, earned three stars, the highest ranking, just months after opening his restaurant.

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Travel influencer couple on horror India gang rape and Taliban interrogation

Travel influencers Fernanda and Vicente open up about Fernanda being gang-raped in India earlier in March and their Taliban interrogation while on an epic six-year motorbike trip.

19 Mar 2024 - 8:23AM

Qatar museum director hails International Cultural Summit in Hong Kong

With a design district flourishing in the Qatari capital, Doha, and a cultural district being built, Shaika Nasser Al-Nassr, director of the Museum of Islamic Art, looks forward to meeting peers in Hong Kong.

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Travel influencers Fernanda (right) and Vicente take a break in Spiti Valley, in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, during their six-year motorbike trip. The couple open up about Fernanda’s gang rape in India and other experiences during their trip, including being interrogated by the Taliban in Afghanistan. Photo: Instagram / @vueltaalmundoenmoto

Travel influencer couple on horror India gang rape and Taliban interrogation

Travel influencers Fernanda and Vicente open up about Fernanda being gang-raped in India earlier in March and their Taliban interrogation while on an epic six-year motorbike trip.

19 Mar 2024 - 8:23AM
Art

Qatar museum director hails International Cultural Summit in Hong Kong

With a design district flourishing in the Qatari capital, Doha, and a cultural district being built, Shaika Nasser Al-Nassr, director of the Museum of Islamic Art, looks forward to meeting peers in Hong Kong.

With a design district flourishing in the Qatari capital, Doha, and a cultural district being built, Shaika Nasser Al-Nassr, director of the Museum of Islamic Art, looks forward to meeting peers in Hong Kong.

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Art

Glenn Ligon, black artist inspired by James Baldwin, on his Hong Kong show

Conceptual artist Glenn Ligon’s first Greater China solo show features his paintings of text rendered illegible that explore the complexities of being a black artist, and the post-truth world of ‘fake news’.

Conceptual artist Glenn Ligon’s first Greater China solo show features his paintings of text rendered illegible that explore the complexities of being a black artist, and the post-truth world of ‘fake news’.

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She ‘can see all the red flags’: this psychic plays matchmaker for clients

What if you could tell from a 30-second ‘body scan’ if you and your partner were meant to be? Medium/spiritualist and clairvoyant matchmaker Deborah Graham says she can do just that.

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She ‘can see all the red flags’: this psychic plays matchmaker for clients

US$500,000 luxury meal in space has people flying to sign up

Luxury space travel company SpaceVIP has hired Danish chef Rasmus Munk of two-Michelin-star restaurant Alchemist to create a gourmet menu for six guests on a six-hour, hi-tech space balloon trip.

18 Mar 2024 - 6:15PM
US$500,000 luxury meal in space has people flying to sign up

Glenn Ligon, black artist inspired by James Baldwin, on his Hong Kong show

Conceptual artist Glenn Ligon’s first Greater China solo show features his paintings of text rendered illegible that explore the complexities of being a black artist, and the post-truth world of ‘fake news’.

4 hours ago

She ‘can see all the red flags’: this psychic plays matchmaker for clients

What if you could tell from a 30-second ‘body scan’ if you and your partner were meant to be? Medium/spiritualist and clairvoyant matchmaker Deborah Graham says she can do just that.

5 hours ago

US$500,000 luxury meal in space has people flying to sign up

Luxury space travel company SpaceVIP has hired Danish chef Rasmus Munk of two-Michelin-star restaurant Alchemist to create a gourmet menu for six guests on a six-hour, hi-tech space balloon trip.

18 Mar 2024 - 6:15PM

Explainer | The Morning Banana Diet is the latest weight-loss craze, but what is it?

Japanese social media craze the Morning Banana Diet is now back in vogue, but there’s more to it than the name suggests. An expert describes how to incorporate it for healthy weight loss.

Japanese social media craze the Morning Banana Diet is now back in vogue, but there’s more to it than the name suggests. An expert describes how to incorporate it for healthy weight loss.

28 Feb 2024 - 5:04PM

Which diet has Kim Kardashian done on and off for years to lose weight?

From a diet that Kim Kardashian claims helped her lose 27kg post-pregnancy to the fitness trainers she has worked out with, what the reality television star says she does to lose weight and stay fit.

From a diet that Kim Kardashian claims helped her lose 27kg post-pregnancy to the fitness trainers she has worked out with, what the reality television star says she does to lose weight and stay fit.

19 Mar 2024 - 8:16AM

‘Power foods’ vs Ozempic and Wegovy drugs for weight loss

On World Obesity Day, a doctor explains the benefits of eating foods that cause weight loss similar to medication like Ozempic but without side effects, such as berries, broccoli, spinach, beans and tofu.

On World Obesity Day, a doctor explains the benefits of eating foods that cause weight loss similar to medication like Ozempic but without side effects, such as berries, broccoli, spinach, beans and tofu.

8 Mar 2024 - 8:06AM

Explainer | The Morning Banana Diet is the latest weight-loss craze, but what is it?

Japanese social media craze the Morning Banana Diet is now back in vogue, but there’s more to it than the name suggests. An expert describes how to incorporate it for healthy weight loss.

Japanese social media craze the Morning Banana Diet is now back in vogue, but there’s more to it than the name suggests. An expert describes how to incorporate it for healthy weight loss.

28 Feb 2024 - 5:04PM

Which diet has Kim Kardashian done on and off for years to lose weight?

From a diet that Kim Kardashian claims helped her lose 27kg post-pregnancy to the fitness trainers she has worked out with, what the reality television star says she does to lose weight and stay fit.

From a diet that Kim Kardashian claims helped her lose 27kg post-pregnancy to the fitness trainers she has worked out with, what the reality television star says she does to lose weight and stay fit.

19 Mar 2024 - 8:16AM

‘Power foods’ vs Ozempic and Wegovy drugs for weight loss

On World Obesity Day, a doctor explains the benefits of eating foods that cause weight loss similar to medication like Ozempic but without side effects, such as berries, broccoli, spinach, beans and tofu.

On World Obesity Day, a doctor explains the benefits of eating foods that cause weight loss similar to medication like Ozempic but without side effects, such as berries, broccoli, spinach, beans and tofu.

8 Mar 2024 - 8:06AM
Lifestyle | OPINION
Depending on the fashions of the period, some of the brows that ancient and medieval Chinese women drew on their own faces would be considered bizarre and even comical today. Photo: Getty Images

Reflections | Laminated brow trend has got nothing on eyebrow styles of ancient China

Eyebrow cosmetics were widely used in ancient China, where women drew eyebrows shaped like feathers, tadpoles, daggers, even fat silkworm cocoons according to the fashions of their time.

17 Mar 2024 - 8:15AM

Then & Now | Avoid the Pooh: when funny T-shirts and slogans are no longer amusing

Hong Kong residents have been chuckling away at amusing T-shirt slogans since the 1980s, but only the foolish or careless are laughing now.

Hong Kong residents have been chuckling away at amusing T-shirt slogans since the 1980s, but only the foolish or careless are laughing now.

16 Mar 2024 - 3:16PM
Avoid the Pooh: when funny T-shirts and slogans are no longer amusing

Mouthing Off | Wendy’s boss made to eat crow over ‘dynamic pricing’ idea, and rightly so

We pay more for flights, Uber rides and hotel rooms at peak times, but when US fast food giant Wendy’s talked about ‘dynamic pricing’, a huge social media backlash forced it to reconsider.

We pay more for flights, Uber rides and hotel rooms at peak times, but when US fast food giant Wendy’s talked about ‘dynamic pricing’, a huge social media backlash forced it to reconsider.

16 Mar 2024 - 8:47AM
Wendy’s boss made to eat crow over ‘dynamic pricing’ idea, and rightly so

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