Earlier this year, mainland China’s biggest hotpot restaurant chain, Haidilao, made news by announcing it would enter the Western-style fast-food market with Fresh Burger, serving pizza, pasta, fried chicken and beef patties in buns. Industry observers predicted that chains such as McDonald’s, KFC and Jollibee might soon be shaking in their boots. Although Fresh Burger has yet to debut in Hong Kong, several other mainland Chinese fast-food brands have recently landed in the city, albeit quietly....

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Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgård’s romantic fantasy film Wicker, based on the short story The Wicker Husband by Ursula Wills, is one of the buzziest films out right now. The English actress plays a lonely fisherwoman who asks a basket weaver (Peter Dinklage) to make her a husband out of wicker. His creation, played by Skarsgård, quickly becomes the talk of their small town as his blossoming romance with the fisherwoman disrupts the status quo. In real life, Olivia Colman found her true...

Foreign military attachés pay tribute to Long March martyrs

One of watchmaking’s go-to materials, steel, or more specifically stainless steel, has finally made the leap into fine jewellery. Tough enough for decades of daily wear, and easy to source compared with precious metals like gold or platinum, stainless steel is getting the jewellery treatment, cropping up in some of the most desirable new collections, not just as a cheaper substitute for gold – currently priced at an all-time high – but for its own unique qualities. Steel is not a single metal...

Unmanaged menopause symptoms are not just impacting women, but costing the Canadian economy $3.5 billion and 540,000 lost workdays every year, according to the Menopause Foundation of Canada.

Home renovations can be costly and disruptive. Why spend money improving a property you rent? Because, argues Ella Bridgland, founder of Hong Kong-based Studio Ella, feeling comfortable in your domestic surroundings is crucial to happiness. “A home is the backdrop to everything: you may entertain there, work there and build a significant part of your life around that space,” she says. “You might not own the building, but for the duration of time you live there, it is unquestionably your home.” A...

The “son of a son of a sailor” grew up on the Gulf, and a new exhibition, hoping to attract the Parrothead nation, celebrates his early life and career. A Times journalist and friend offers a look.

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