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‘To heck with coronavirus’: Asian weddings back on, in sickness and in health Ignatius Koh Ferdinand Mar and Grace Yap went ahead with their wedding in November 2020 while adhering to safe-distancing measures. Photo: Handout
From 1,000 guests to 20. Farah Hani and Khairul Anuar were ready to get married in 2020, having prepared for their big day more than a year in advance. Covid-19 swiftly put paid to those plans.
As Singapore implemented stringent safety measures, the couple faced a predicament - to proceed with a scaled-down event or to postpone it. Our venue vendor suggested to postpone our wedding to February 2021, with the assurance that 1,000 guests would be allowed, said Farah, 25, a specialist teaching associate. She tied the knot with Khairul, 25, a commercial analyst, in July 2020 instead.
It is the biggest annual human migration on Earth, and in the months following the first coronavirus-tainted Lunar New Year, many foresaw the new and little understood virus spreading to all corners of the largest population on Earth. To the credit of world's strictest lockdown, that turned out not to be the case. As the rest of the world struggled with the deadliest pandemic in a century, China was in comparatively robust shape. But with.
Over half of Japanese businesses in Vietnam and India have plans to expand their in-country operations, a recent survey showed, in a sign of the shift towards reducing reliance on China as a production base in what is known as a "China Plus One" strategy. In the online survey conducted in December by Japanese staffing firm Pasona Group, 57 per cent of Japanese companies in Vietnam and 55 per cent in India said they would expand operations in the.
How is Nobu Matsuhisa taking the dining destination trend to new heights? Celebrity chefs Alain Ducasse, Simon Rogan and Michael Caines all have their own branded hotels already Nobu Ryokan Malibu is a Japanese-style retreat on the Californian coast. Photo: Nobu
I met chef and restaurateur Nobu Matsuhisa for the first time in 2013, just after his first Nobu Hotel opened in Las Vegas. He was talking about building many more with his business partner Robert De Niro, so I asked him why he wanted to get into the hotel business anyway. He replied in his usual jovial manner: To house my restaurants. Over the seven years since, he has opened 13 hotels, most recently in London and Warsaw, with six more due this year.