Singapore Gifts Show (SGS) is Singapore’s dedicated gifts trade event showcasing top gifts, premiums, lifestyle products and services from around the region and beyond. Attended by ready local and international trade buyers and corporate visitors, SGS b
Some 300 galleries showcase their current projects and up-and-coming artists at ARCO, the 20-plus-year international contemporary art fair held in the Parque Ferial. Each year the fair showcases the art of one country to complement the four days of exhibi
“Much more than jazz” is the motto of the annual Dubai International Jazz Festival, and the line-ups certainly back up the claim. The list of past artists includes jazz guitarists Stanley Jordan and Mike Stern, British jazz singer Claire Martin and Gr
The greatest aviation spectacle south of the equator takes place in the blue skies over Avalon Airport when the Australian International Airshow flies into Geelong for six days of displays and exhibitions. From historic warbirds to aerobatic teams, more t
Darkness descends on the city when the lights go out at 4 a.m. on the Monday after Ash Wednesday. For a moment, all is silent. Then the sounds of a thousand piccolos and drums fill the air in response to the mediaeval Morgestraich. This civilian reveille
All the rootin’, tootin’ tumbleweeds on the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association circuit roll up to Chuk Shon for La Fiesta de los Vaqueros. The Indians call Tucson “village with spring behind mountains”; competitors at the late-month ‘Cowboy
Hong Kong’s neighbour across the Pearl River estuary goes back to its roots during the Lantern Festival, known to locals as Yuan Xiao Jie. Since the first century AD, the Cantonese have taken to the streets on the 15th day of the first lunar month to lo
Out with the old and in with the new! Chinese New Year marks the start of the lunar calendar in traditional style. Residents clean their houses to get rid of the old year’s bad luck and hang red scrolls with charms to bring in new fortunes. Dragons and
The Kitchen God’s lips are brushed with honey as he watches over the Spring Festival, so he’ll have nothing but sweet things to say about the family in his annual report to the celestial Jade Emperor. The celebration's high point is the eve of the fir
Kung hey fat choi 'Good Wishes, Good Fortune!' is the refrain as Chinese New Year approaches. Businesses close down, houses are spring-cleaned, debts are settled and red scrolls and posters appear wishing all and sundry a long life, prosperity and happine
Kublai Khan may have installed his pleasure dome at Xanadu, but it was left to his distant relative, the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, to create a lasting image of paradise on earth in the form of the Taj Mahal. The “teardrop in the cheek of time” has lo