There’s something special about travelling in the wintertime. The pace slows down, and familiar destinations take on a whole new character. Festive markets fill picturesque cities, while crisp winter landscapes create the ideal setting for seasonal adventures. Whether guests are embracing the magic of a winter getaway or relaxing on sun-soaked shores, winter travel has a way of turning every journey into a well-deserved reward. ALL Accor, the travel and lifestyle loyalty programme, is launching a brand-new offer on ALL.com, giving guests a discount of up to 25% on flexible rate hotel bookings of a minimum of two nights at participating hotels across Europe and beyond.

CGTN's Ioana Gomoi explores Beijing's International Sculpture Park in Shijingshan District, where around 200 sculptures from more than 40 countries turn an ordinary walk into an open-air art experience.

When Ocean Park launched its Halloween celebrations in 2001, pumpkins, witches and vampires helped turn a visit to the theme park into a seasonal fright night. Twenty-five years later, haunted houses drawing on Hong Kong ghost stories share this year’s programme with family activities, live performances and a dark-fantasy collaboration with a pop star. The history of Halloween at Ocean Park is not simply a timeline of increasingly bigger productions and more elaborate effects. It is also a story...

Hong Kong’s M+ museum, New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Centre Pompidou in Paris signed an agreement on October 30 to establish a three-way cultural alliance, aiming to redefine how visual culture is collected, exhibited and shared globally. The framework agreement, signed at M+ in the West Kowloon Cultural District, departs from conventional short-term blockbuster touring exhibitions and fee-based satellite franchises. With no money changing hands, the institutions will focus on...

In 1933, Jeanne Toussaint was appointed creative director of Cartier, and the wildly influential designer set about cementing the noble panther’s role as the indelible emblem of the storied Parisian jeweller that it remains to this day. Two years later, in Hong Kong, legendary entrepreneur Aw Boon Haw finished the construction of Haw Par Mansion, now known as Villa Haw Par, the magnificent East-meets-West edifice in Tai Hang that is also a showcase for the allure of big cats, complete with the...

Heated Rivalry star Connor Storrie’s commitment to fashion reached new levels during the Paris menswear shows in June when he wore a pair of knee-high latex sock boots to the Saint Laurent show in the middle of a heatwave. And well, it was hot. The perversity of latex in the heat is of course ideal for a material once solely associated with fetishwear and underground clubs. Fashion, forever contrary, has of course long had an affinity with it. The nexus of latex’s journey from underground...

White Flower Oil is a familiar scent in many Chinese homes – you may even have had a whiff of it on public transport. The sharp, pungent fragrance of eucalyptus and mint is unmistakable and memory-evoking, and has traditionally been used to treat ailments such as headaches, nausea and bug bites. The origins of White Flower Oil, also known as Hoe Hin Pak Fah Yeow, can be traced to 1927 Penang, then part of Malaya, where founder Gan Geok Eng developed a medicated oil initially intended for private...

Stevie Wonder is taking legal action against a reported ex-fiancée, filing a lawsuit last week to evict her after she has allegedly been living rent-free at his Los Angeles property in Studio City for nearly four decades. The prolific musician, whose legal name is Stevland Morris, has filed a legal complaint in Los Angeles County Superior Court against Carmen Efferson, whom he says has been living at the home on Oak Glen Drive since July 1988, according to the complaint obtained by the Los...

Four rounds, four mystery countries. Start guessing...the closer you get, the hotter it gets. Here's GeoTemp #158 for October 29, 2026. View Entire Post ›