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NORTH POINT, Hong Kong — Eels swim in Styrafoam boxes, astonished dead fish shine in rows next to blocks of pink-white flesh, silver heads. A live fish flails on the counter. There are clams in purple shells, small octopi, and other sea creatures already mashed into balls for soup. Lengths of meat dangle in butcher shops, knuckled feet still attached, shoppers’ chattering punctuated by cleaver’s thud...
...pavilion's title - It's Not You, It's Me - may come across as brash, but "It's about us, the U.A.E., and it's unapologetic," she says. "Like it or love it, this is who we are." Many cities that began life as mercantile enclaves - Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai - have gone on to develop thriving cultural scenes. There's no reason Dubai can't flaunt its newfound creative talent...
Diners can choose from T'ang Court (an outpost of the two-Michelin-star Cantonese restaurant at the Langham's Hong Kong flagship), an Italian restaurant and a Japanese izakaya. The Chuan Spa, a feature of all Langham properties, is there to administer to the overfed and the overworked with its toxin-eliminating scrubs and soothing unguents...
Launching initially in London and Hong Kong, Sarment - the name refers to a grapevine's stem - is the brainchild of retired businessman Bertrand Faure Beaulieu and sommelier Philippe Messy. The idea is simple: poach a crack team of sommeliers from Michelin-starred and other top London restaurants like Papillon, the Square and Tom Aikens, and make them available to a select invited few. Seventy-five, to be exact...
...tainted-milk scandal, defending Tibetans accused of agitating for independence and, as in Li's case, defending followers of Falun Gong. "Lawyers no longer serve only as instruments of political control like how they were expected to perform from the 1950s to the 1970s," says Albert Ho, a Hong Kong solicitor and chairman of China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group. "With the opening and liberalization of China, it needs to build a system of law and a sound legal system. The government and the governing party shall abide by the law. But they are very, very concerned that...