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Bangkok, nine o’clock in the morning. The tropical heat is slowly settling over Thailand’s capital like a damp towel. The last sweaty joggers and tai chi practitioners are just leaving Lumphini Park – the green lungs of the metropolis. Suddenly, a tourist’s scream slices through the calm atmosphere. With eyes widened in fear, he stares at a creature that looks as if it has stepp...

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I am getting a brain massage – and it is sublime. I am lying on a heated massage bed, cocooned in a soft, weighted blanket, as Kayla Faraji caresses my cheeks with billowy, pink goose feathers. She slides them down the sides of my neck and around my bare shoulders, sending chills up my spine. “Now I’m scratching, scratching your chest,” Faraji whispers into my ear, especially br...

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You could be forgiven for thinking that the UK has gone samurai mad of late. Director Michihito Fujii’s Last Samurai Standing remains high up the Netflix UK chart, Penguin Books is enjoying a massive bestseller in Shotaro Ikenami’s multi-volume The Samurai Detectives, and the FX miniseries retelling of James Clavell’s Shogun (originally a 1975 novel) was a surprise hit and won v...

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The Gulf is teeming with contemporary art. While high-profile arrivals like February’s Art Basel Qatar and the upcoming Frieze Abu Dhabi grab the spotlight, neighbouring Saudi Arabia’s Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale – closing on May 2 – has quietly matured into an established, home-grown platform now in its third edition. The biennale in Diriyah, just outside Riyadh, is the r...

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Are your loved ones in luck this year? See our predictions for all the zodiac signs in the Year of the Horse. The Lantern Festival falls on the 15th day of the first month in the lunisolar calendar, which is on March 3 this year, and marks the last day of the Chinese New Year celebrations. It is the first night of the new year to see a full moon, thus symbolising the return of s...

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