DISCOVERING
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My short trip back to London wouldn’t have been complete without a visit to the City area itself. As a young journalist, I worked for a newspaper based in Fleet Street, which was the home of publishing back in the day. There are so many wonderful old and new hotels to choose from, and budgets need to be stretched a bit if you want to go overboard, but, hey - it’s London. The Old Bailey is not an address that most travellers associate with charm, yet Hyde London City Hotel has

Japan is preparing for an extended period of extreme summer heat, with the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) warning that above-average temperatures are expected to persist through October due to the continuing effects of El Niño across the region.

What began as a modest 15-square-meter rehearsal and recording studio in 1998 has evolved into Gig Music Hall: a sophisticated live music venue, restaurant, and hospitality concept that brings together artists, diners, and audiences under one roof. It is a place where sound, food, and storytelling coexist, and where local musicians are given a stage to be seen and heard.

For decades, red wine drinkers have been handed the same instruction: serve at room temperature. It is advice that made sense once, in an era of stone floors and unheated parlours, and makes considerably less sense now, in centrally heated kitchens with the pasta water already at a rolling boil. Historically, room temperature meant something closer to cellar temperature, somewhere between 12°C and 15°C.

The third part of a student of Bachelor of Science in Hospitality Management's personal recount, overcoming her parents’ objections, empty pockets, and years of doubt, proving that passion, persistence, and a little help from government support can unlock even the heaviest doors.

The oil-rich sultanate on the island of Borneo, long overshadowed on itineraries by neighbours Malaysia and Indonesia, has declared 2027 as Visit Brunei Year, a nationwide campaign designed to introduce the country to travellers who may know remarkably little about it beyond its skyline of golden domes.