Category: Asia

  • COMO Hotels and Resorts, in collaboration with MasterCard, invites guests to ‘Purchase with Purpose™’

    COMO Hotels and Resorts, in collaboration with MasterCard, invites guests to ‘Purchase with Purpose™’ Tuesday, September 11, 2012. (Singapore) – For the third year running, COMO Hotels and Resorts is teaming up with MasterCard to support development projects and charities across the globe. From October 1 to December 31, 2012, COMO guests can help local…

  • COMO Hotels and Resorts to open a new property in Phuket, Thailand in 2012

    COMO Hotels and Resorts to open a new property in Phuket, Thailand in 2012 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 14, 2010. (Singapore)-COMO Hotels and Resorts, the award-winning five-star hotel group based in Singapore, is to develop and manage a new property on the Yamu peninsula of Phuket in Thailand. Located in Phang Nga Bay on the…

  • Experience the Adventure of a lifetime with Uma Paro, Bhutan

    Experience the Adventure of a Lifetime with Uma Paro, Bhutan FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 14, 2010. (Paro, Bhutan)—Imagine centuries-old monasteries, emerald forests and colourful Buddhist celebrations – welcome to Bhutan. Uma Paro, Bhutan offers a series of all-inclusive small group adventures to provide easy access to this breathtaking, remote country that has remained largely untouched…

  • Celebrate the Winter Holiday Bhutanese Style at Uma Paro

    Celebrate the Winter Holiday Bhutanese Style at Uma Paro October 18, 2010. (Paro, Bhutan) – Bhutan’s festival calendar is regularly marked by Tshechu. Meaning ‘Tenth Day’, this celebratory event occurs on the start of the tenth day of each month in the Buddhist lunar calendar. It is an opportunity for local people to come together…

  • Koichiro Ikebuchi Designs nahm Restaurant at the Metropolitan Bangkok

    Koichiro Ikebuchi Designs nahm Restaurant at the Metropolitan Bangkok  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 7th, 2010. (Bangkok, TH) – nahm Bangkok, the latest venture from award-winning Australian chef David Thompson, occupies a dramatic, newly designed space at the Metropolitan Bangkok. The result is a tour-de-force in intelligent, intimate restaurant design created by award-winning, Japanese interior architect,…

  • THE MIGHTY ARROW, Soca King of the World, dies at 60.

    The Mighty Arrow, Soca King of the World, dies at 60. OLVESTON, Montserrat (Sept 15, 2010) – The Soca King of the World, Alphonsus “The Mighty Arrow” Cassell, died at his residence on the tiny Caribbean island of Montserrat today at the age of 60.  The international recording artiste was diagnosed with cerebral cancer in…

  • David Thompson opens a Thai restaurant in the city that first inspired him

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    David Thompson opens a Thai restaurant in the city that first inspired him April 5, 2010. (Bangkok, TH) – In July, David Thompson—the Australian-born chef of nahm at The Halkin hotel in London—opens his first restaurant in Bangkok. He will be working alongside his long-term partner of 20 years, Thai-born Tanongsak Yordwai, who helped Thompson…