“No pain, no gain”, an article I wrote eleven years ago on my blog, and was asked to rewrite for Squash Site to make it sound more relevant to the girls on tour with an insight from my squash days. If “No pain, no gain” can teach you anything– and if there’s anything, anything I…
A Spanish language lecturer at a university in Hong Kong is suing her boss and the tertiary education institution after her contract renewal was allegedly rejected due to her complaints about workplace harassment. A writ filed to the District Court showed Ana Alias Martinez was seeking unspecified damages for emotional distress, reputational harm and financial…
Courtesy of Mikai McDermott It’s a Monday Bank Holiday in London when I sit down for my video call with the designer Conner Ives. The trees were restless beyond my window and the sky looked grey and heavy with unfallen rain. He’s in what looks like a home office, a star-spangled fabric occasionally peeking into…
Alexander McQueen fashion show during London Menswear Fashion Week 2016 Getty Images Currently, the U.K. womenswear market, valued at $48.74 billion, is almost double menswear at $26.54 billion. However, percentage growth is similar—womenswear is projected to grow annually by 3.50% vs. 3.30% for menswear. And according to Drapers, the industry bible, things look quite rosy…
Hong Kong’s Financial Secretary Paul Chan outlined plans for a second digital asset innovation push in a blog post over the weekend. After the first policy statement in 2022 formalized its approach to cryptocurrencies, it is planning to announce its future strategy soon. It sounds like the focus could be on digital securities and tokenized…
Credit: MART PRODUCTION from Pexels A new study offers insight into the health and lifestyle indicators—including diet, physical activity and weight—that align most closely with healthy brain function across the lifespan. The study used machine learning to determine which variables best predicted a person’s ability to quickly complete a task without becoming distracted. Reported in…
David Koma is easing just fine into the Milanese work hard/weekend harder lifestyle that the city’s proximity to beaches, lakes, and mountains has turned into a sort of competitive sport. By Friday, Milan is a ghost town , and the fashion playbook flips accordingly: suits off, swimwear on. “Italians have this great on-the-go style, a…
Throughout her years working in technology, Jenny Wang, 28, always found herself stumbling back to one idea — a personal styling agent to help users decide what to wear and buy based on their budget, lifestyle, weather and calendar. She has tried to build such a product numerous times in the past, “but the AI…
An Air India flight was forced to make a U-turn due to a technical scare soon after takeoff Monday, just days after another of the airline’s Boeing Dreamliners crashed, killing at least 270 people. Flight AI315 took off from Hong Kong at 12:20 p.m. local time, bound for New Delhi, when the aircraft began an…
* Indian tribes visit UK museum to bring home ancestors’ remains Naga tribes claim back ancestral remains from UK museum * Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford holds largest collection * Demands for repatriation of remains and artefacts grow worldwide By Catarina Demony and Marissa Davison OXFORD, England, – Tribes from the Indian state of Nagaland…