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Travel & Leisure
16 new hotels and resorts across the world to visit in 2025
With new properties from brands including Regent, Intercontinental, Six Senses and Mandarin Oriental, get ready to rev up your wanderlust.
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Why probiotic supplements don’t prevent hangovers, according to science
31 Dec 2024 - 8:15PM
Year of the Snake 2025 predictions for Snakes, including their luck in love
31 Dec 2024 - 6:27PM
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K-drama
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The Fiery Priest 2, childish follow-up that trades logic for pratfalls
The main characters from season 1 return in crime-fighting comedy sequel that is hit and miss, the jokes not making up for its inane story.
31 Dec 2024 - 7:45PM
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Kim Nam-gil in a still from The Fiery Priest season 2. Lee Ha-nee and Kim Sung-kyun co-star.
Travel & Leisure
Why the festive lights have dimmed in Hong Kong’s Tsim Sha Tsui East
Opened in the 1980s, Tsim Sha Tsui East was a booming area and its holiday lights were a popular attraction – until the millennium.
31 Dec 2024 - 6:23PM
Arts & Culture
Year of the Snake 2025 predictions for all 12 zodiac signs. Is your luck in?
Feng shui master Tong Pik-ha gives her predictions, from the lucky colours to wear to which sign will have a bad year when it comes to love.
31 Dec 2024 - 11:19AM
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Family & Relationships
‘So exhausting I feel like crying’: shock for Filipino carers in Korea
Filipino carers in Seoul are grappling with high living costs that mean they can’t save money, and with having to perform unexpected tasks.
29 Dec 2024 - 7:45AM
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A group of 100 Filipino women at Incheon International Airport in Seoul. They are among a batch hired under a foreign domestic worker pilot programme. Many say the high cost of living prevents them saving money. Photo: EPA
Travel & Leisure
3 must-see spots in Guangzhou, including China’s first 5-star hotel
With visa-free access to China being offered to nearly 60 countries, here are some interesting things to do in Guangzhou on a visit.
31 Dec 2024 - 7:15AM
Entertainment
Avicii documentary director on capturing the man behind the decks
Director Henrik Burman talks about chronicling the life of the Swedish DJ-producer, who died six years ago at the age of 28.
31 Dec 2024 - 7:15PM
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United States & Canada
Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt reach divorce settlement after 8 years
Settlement brings an apparent end to one of the longest and most contentious divorces in Hollywood history.
31 Dec 2024 - 4:49PM
Travel & Leisure
Mantle of longest Boeing 747 passenger flight to pass from Asia to Europe
Korean Air will replace the ‘Queen of the Skies’ with the smaller Boeing 777-300ER for its 7,153-mile flight from Seoul to Atlanta in 2025.
31 Dec 2024 - 7:34AM
The final Boeing 747 lands at Paine Field following a test flight on January 10 in Everett, Washington. Photo: AP
Health & Wellness
Health and wellness stories you read most in 2024, about star diets and more
We look back at some of the most popular health and wellness stories of 2024, including how a 58-year-old influencer looks half his age.
31 Dec 2024 - 4:15PM
Food & Drink
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What is umami? How the savoury flavour makes food taste better
One of the five primary human tastes, umami is a key feature of Asian – especially Japanese – cuisine commonly enhanced by dashi or MSG.
28 Dec 2024 - 11:15AM
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K-drama
7 of the best new Korean drama series to watch in January 2025
Lee Min-ho leads Netflix’s space romance When the Stars Gossip, Kim Hye-soo is an investigative journalist in Disney+’s Unmasked, and more.
30 Dec 2024 - 7:15PM
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Health & Wellness
Light to moderate wine drinking could be as good as statins for your heart
It’s often said light to moderate wine drinking is good for heart health – but how much wine is that? Scientists have put a number on it.
31 Dec 2024 - 8:18AM
A bottle of wine a week could be as good as statins for heart health. Photo: Shutterstock
Health & Wellness
Do you believe in ghosts? A sceptic explains why we think we see them
A professor uses ‘anomalistic psychology’ to try to understand belief in phenomena that lack scientific support, such as psychics or ghosts.
29 Dec 2024 - 6:15PM
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Arts & Culture
Why Beyond’s ‘Glorious Years’ became an instant hit in Hong Kong
Inspired by Nelson Mandela, the 1990 song written by frontman Wong Ka-kui was a karaoke favourite that spoke to young people in the city.
29 Dec 2024 - 6:15PM
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Arts & Culture
Why the coming Year of the Wood Snake could be lucky
With 12 animals and 5 elements, the Year of the Wood Snake comes around every 60 years, and 2025’s may be more favourable than 1965’s.
31 Dec 2024 - 11:31AM
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A snake at a farm in Bangkok, Thailand. The next lunar new year will be a Year of the Wood Snake, which comes around every 60 years. The previous one, in 1965, saw dynamic change and upheaval. Are we in for more of the same? Photo: Getty Images
Entertainment
The Hong Kong films released in 2024, ranked from worst to best
From We 12 to Papa, Fly Me to the Moon and The Last Dance, our ranking of the Hong Kong films that hit cinemas in the course of the year.
26 Dec 2024 - 12:40PM
Arts & Culture
Chinese snake idioms explored as we head into the Year of the Snake
Why would legs on a snake mean something is ruined? What does a bow’s shadow have to do with reptiles? Seven snake idioms and their meanings.
31 Dec 2024 - 11:41AM
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K-movies
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Hidden Face, a Korean erotic thriller, serves up scandalous fun
This sexy K-movie follows a conductor who sleeps with the replacement player for his cellist fiancée, who seems to have disappeared.
23 Dec 2024 - 1:15PM
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