Iris

Newly arrived, Geoff was taken with Iris from their first meeting

6 Aug 2011

When Geoff Akien packed up and headed for Hong Kong almost two years ago, he also wrapped up a seven-year relationship. New to a foreign land, diving into another relationship was not top of the...

Owner mined Crabtree & Evelyn's long history to reinvent its Iris series

1 Oct 2010

Most people play favourites with lifestyle and home care brands; few take it to the level that Sandra Lee has with Crabtree & Evelyn. The Malaysian businesswoman loved the brand so much, she...

Avoid being caught off balance

23 Feb 2008

I have always been a firm believer in work-life balance but, until recently, was a poor partaker of it myself. Let me explain how I finally came to be able to practise what I initially only...

Challenge yourself to something new this summer

20 Jun 2006

We have to make many decisions in life, and recently I had to make a tough one.

I wanted to join a three-week programme during the summer holidays.

Goo Goo Dolls

11 Jun 2006

Goo Goo Dolls

Let Love In

(Warner)

After forming in 1986, Buffalo power-pop trio the Goo Goo Dolls struggled in search of mainstream success for 12 long...

Opinion

Jake Van Der Kamp

An age-old problem and the sums that just don't add up

Howard Winn

HSBC suffers the Taibbi treatment in Rolling Stone

Shirley Yam

How tycoons' IPO 'losses' may hide profits at herd's expense

Team's winning ways

Leadership, a little sacrifice and a good news sense wins school's paper the top prize

Leadership, a little sacrifice and a good news sense helped the STFA Tam Pak Yu College...

Coffee project provides fresh incentive

More than 70 university students will get together this Sunday to learn how to make a fresh cup of coffee at a workshop organised by a group of City University (CityU) undergraduates.

Parents should think carefully

I refer to the article headlined, 'A crying shame', which appeared in the South China Morning Post, on January 2.

I cannot believe there are so many parents who have given up their...

He can knead his own buns

IDON'T know, maybe I'm nuts or maybe I'm heartless but I find it hard to muster up much sympathy for a man whose left butt cheek has gone into spasm from too much . . . bowling.

Students find sweet home in cans

THE 1.8-metre high Christmas toyhouse standing in the playground of the Sacred Heart Canossian College was made of 2,054 soft drinks cans.