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Environmental effects of fine dining
One of the world’s top chefs has warned that environmental degradation and an explosion in fine dining worldwide is set to have a drastic effect on the food trade. Habitats are…
Hong Kong restaurant boasts robot staff
With a whir and a flash of lights, a robot whizzes to the restaurant table and takes a customer’s order, while a second races to another table to deliver plates of steaming food.…
Online movie site spurs budding filmmakers
By any standards, this year’s most-talked-about movie in Hong Kong is short, poorly filmed and grainy. However, what it lacks in production values, the 10-minute home-made clip —…
Why geography curses Indonesia, and always will
The powerful earthquake that hit Indonesia was just the latest display of violent seismic activity on the archipelago, which stretches across one of the most unstable parts of…
Exclusive club would have Bond shaken and stirred
With the click of a switch, brightly polished restaurant tables lift almost magically into the ceiling and from sliding panels in the floor ice buckets emerge in time for the…
Star French chef hits Asia’s streets
He’s among an elite coterie of chefs who command the sort of respect usually accorded royalty, but when Thierry Marx comes to Hong Kong there’s only one place you’ll find him…
Small farmers say they have much to lose from WTO deal
Coffee grower Denis Cruz sniffs a handful of yellow-green beans produced from his Honduran farm and sighs. ”They would be worth more if I could sell them through Fair Trade,” he…
Commonwealth chief pessimistic of WTO deal
Developed countries have to bite the bullet and dig deeper to make this week’s World Trade Organisation (WTO) trade talks a success and bring an end to world poverty, the head of…
Luxury checks in at new Hong Kong hotels
Hong Kong’s high-end hotel sector just got more luxurious with a spate of new openings and refurbishments designed to cash in on the Chinese city’s newfound position as a top…
Sizing up the future of air travel
From private cabins with designer fabrics and en suite bathrooms in first class to on-screen virtual air attendants taking orders in economy, the future of air travel is going…
Disney bets that it’s a small world after all
Roy Hardy’s task was simple when he was hired in 2002 to market Hong Kong Disneyland: make Mickey, Donald and company as familiar to families in China as they are in the West. To…
Mystery woman baffles Hong Kong authorities
She appeared from nowhere on a rain-tossed morning, sitting naked on a Hong Kong shoreline, unable to speak. Now she sits in a hospital bed, staring into space, mute and…