Hints and tips:
...Rolex’s importance to WoS can’t be understated....
...Wos was married to an employee of the local school, which is 300m from where the missile hit but was closed at the time. The school remained shut the day after the strike but reopened on Thursday....
...Both Rolex and WoS said the trigger for the deal was the issue of management succession. Jörg Bucherer, the 86-year-old grandson of eponymous founder Carl Bucherer, has no heirs....
...Until February 28; further information and tickets here Leung Chi Wo: Tears of Tempo is also informed by Venice....
..., and WO sauce, £8These beautifully packaged condiments are my kind of stocking filler....
...There are three key triad societies operating in Hong Kong, the 14K, Sun Yee On, and also Wo Shing Wo. Their operations are fairly vast and quite geographically spread across Asia....
...友和士多 (Yau Wo See-Dor) is one of the last remaining mom-and-pop stores selling freshly made Chinese desserts and the old-fashioned candy my parents’ generation grew up with....
...In her 2020 book Urban Migrants in Rural Japan, Klien spoke to a number of people who had “broken their bodies” (karada wo kowashita) and suffered mental breakdowns before moving away or opting out of lifelong...
...“You have to be very careful and responsible for what you’re saying,” says artist Leung Chi Wo, a veteran of the Hong Kong art scene, and a co-founder of the revered Para Site nonprofit space....
...Lantau Island: Mui Wo to Tung Chung via Sunset and Lantau Peaks Distance: 20km Elevation: 1,500m Time: 4hrs 15 mins Starting point: Mui Wo, which can be reached by ferry from Central Pier Six Finishing...
...Ultimately this is about facing — literally facing — problems instead of avoiding them. The bogey(wo)man is rarely as bad in person as they are in your imagination. You can WFH. But you can’t hide....
...Ride out of Mui Wo in the direction of the bustling traditional town of Tai O, passing the white sands of Cheung Sha Beach on your left....
...Without getting into any of the other implications (such as having entry-level humanity), it is the most uneconomic use of (wo)manpower imaginable....
...“Empty sites on the High Street have been filled recently by SW Ski and The Wos concept store.”...
...If you are after a sweet treat, however, Hong Kong’s most famous biscuit maker, Jenny Bakery, is not too far away at 15 Wing Wo Street....
...He tells me about an old Chinese concept pronounced “wo you” that can refer to the sense of entering a painting mentally to enjoy its landscape....
...Ms Wos has been nominated by Mr Trump to be ambassador to Canada....
...But as the head of Judge’s Wo+Men’s Leadership group, Ms Malone says the pandemic has encouraged creative thinking and, in turn, communication not just among students in her programme but among MBA students...
...Din Tai Fung 68 Yee Wo Street, Causeway Bay Good for: gorging on dumplings Not so good for: introverts FYI: the Taiwanese restaurant chain began life more than 60 years ago making cooking oil....
...This article is part of a guide to Tokyo from FT Globetrotter When the boy-meets-girl romantic comedy Watashi wo suki ni tsuretette (Why Don’t You Take Me Skiing?)...
...UK domestic demand countered the stalled tourism and airport sales, WoS says, with provincial branches doing better than London....
...WoS said it thought domestic demand would stay buoyant in both the UK and the US, but it would still face limited — though improving — tourism and airport traffic in the countries....
...The WoS camp is predictably shy of comparing Aston Martin with WoS. They argue WoS is a distributor not a manufacturer and has a fraction of the debt....
...Rolex, which alone accounts for half of WoS revenues, prohibits online sales of its products. The risk is in chasing the shares higher....
...First the words of the 19th-century German poet, and exile, Heinrich Heine: Dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen — “Where books are burnt, in the end people will be burnt.”...
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