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
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Travel influencer couple on horror India gang rape and Taliban interrogation

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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.

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.

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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’.

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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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US conceptual artist Glenn Ligon in front of one of his works, which feature text painted over to render it illegible. Hauser & Wirth’s Hong Kong gallery is staging the first solo show of Ligon’s work in Greater China. Photo: Glenn Ligon/Hauser & Wirth

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’.

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Sex and relationships

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.

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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Food and Drinks

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.

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.

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How does Hugh Jackman get shredded? Actor’s diet and gym secrets laid bare

To play Wolverine, Hugh Jackman has had to bulk up and get shredded more than once in the last quarter-century. How does he do it? We take a look at his fitness routine and the diet he follows.

18 Mar 2024 - 7:15AM
How does Hugh Jackman get shredded? Actor’s diet and gym secrets laid bare

How a stroke raises the risk of having dementia months, even decades, later

A stroke increases the short-term risk of dementia, which is no surprise, but new research shows the increased risk can last for 20 years after a stroke, even after recovering some abilities post-stroke.

18 Mar 2024 - 3:31PM
How a stroke raises the risk of having dementia months, even decades, later

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

How does Hugh Jackman get shredded? Actor’s diet and gym secrets laid bare

To play Wolverine, Hugh Jackman has had to bulk up and get shredded more than once in the last quarter-century. How does he do it? We take a look at his fitness routine and the diet he follows.

18 Mar 2024 - 7:15AM

How a stroke raises the risk of having dementia months, even decades, later

A stroke increases the short-term risk of dementia, which is no surprise, but new research shows the increased risk can last for 20 years after a stroke, even after recovering some abilities post-stroke.

18 Mar 2024 - 3:31PM

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.

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‘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.

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‘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 Spotlight

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

Language Matters | Are we reading too much into Taylor Swift’s graphic tees? Maybe, maybe not

Graphic T-shirts – shirts with slogans or phrases – can often pack a political or social punch even when they do not mean to. The tees Taylor Swift wears on stage on tour are just the latest example of that.

Graphic T-shirts – shirts with slogans or phrases – can often pack a political or social punch even when they do not mean to. The tees Taylor Swift wears on stage on tour are just the latest example of that.

14 Mar 2024 - 7:07PM
Are we reading too much into Taylor Swift’s graphic tees? Maybe, maybe not

Home from Home | Hong Kong’s skyline is best in the world; London, Shanghai just don’t compare

Visits to see London’s skyline, while impressive, don’t compare to Hong Kong’s stunning array of buildings and lights. It’s one of things I miss most about the city, and one of its biggest assets.

Visits to see London’s skyline, while impressive, don’t compare to Hong Kong’s stunning array of buildings and lights. It’s one of things I miss most about the city, and one of its biggest assets.

10 Mar 2024 - 7:17PM
Hong Kong’s skyline is best in the world; London, Shanghai just don’t compare
Liaquat Ali of Shaffi’s Curry at Borneo Lines in Shek Kong, a food stall that served generations of British Army soldiers and Hong Kong residents.  4 Jan 96. Photo: SCMP

Then & Now | How ‘army camp food’ became a staple of Hong Kong cafe menus

Humble roadside food stalls introduced hungry Hongkongers to spicy but affordable South Asian delicacies that originated in the British Army garrisons stationed across the New Territories.

11 Mar 2024 - 7:45AM
Viana do Castelo in Portugal, one of the world’s 10 most welcoming cities, according to Booking.com. Photo: Shutterstock

Destinations known | World’s 10 most welcoming cities? How does Booking.com know?

The 10 most welcoming cities on Earth, according to Booking.com, include places from India to France, most of which you, like Destinations Known, have probably never been to.

8 Mar 2024 - 3:17PM
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

17 Mar 2024 - 8:15AM

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
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14 Mar 2024 - 7:07PM

Visits to see London’s skyline, while impressive, don’t compare to Hong Kong’s stunning array of buildings and lights. It’s one of things I miss most about the city, and one of its biggest assets.

10 Mar 2024 - 7:17PM