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PHO What it is: Slippery rice noodles dancing in warm, deeply savoury broth.

This beloved rice noodle dish is complete meal in itself. Often taken over breakfast or lunch, good pho broth is the key to delicious meal.

Traditionalists will say good broth is clear and not muddy, wafting with the fragrance of beef, star anise and ginger. Finish the dish off with generous

squeeze of lime and copious amounts of basil and mint.

Where to find it: Vietnam.

HAINANESE CHICKEN RICE What it is: dish that has been adapted from early Chinese immigrants originally from Hainan can only mean one thing it’s must-try! The centerpiece of this meal is the fragrant ginger and garlic that lend its simple flavours to create compelling dish. The rice is cooked with chicken fat and stock then served with steamed or boiled chicken and soup on the side. Families have their own secret recipes for the condiments, the chilli, ginger and soy sauces, that round up the flavours of the dish.

Where to find it: Malaysia, Singapore.

Source: MUHIBAH, the Royal Brunei Airlines in-flight magazine, 2017 Sep-Oct, pages 33-34. Text recovered from the scanned page by OCR and lightly corrected; spelling may differ from the printed edition.

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Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc, Antibes and its iconic cliffside pool

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Hotel du Cap-Eden-R ANTIBES carved into the roc in 1914, this iconic pool is place for memorable hangouts and celebrity sightings. Among the

names that have taken plunge here include Johnny Depp and Bruce Willis, who probably couln’t resist th ocean salted poo! water heated on} cooler days with amazing views of the

Mediterranean Sea. On secluded cement terrace, pool attendant is al yourdisposal for swimming lessons o1

Fans of the macabre and bizarre will love the hotel’s blood-red pool, which gives you unique bragging rights once home. Thanks to combination of red, yellow and orange mosaic tiles that Imake upthe pool’s floor, guests swim in waters that give them the illusion lof the red hue. Selected as one of he world’s most spectacular hotel swimming pools by both Tripadvisor land CNN, the red pool is further surrounded by wooden deck with red Imattresses and black over-sized bean

for luxurious laidback lounge.

Source: MUHIBAH, the Royal Brunei Airlines in-flight magazine, 2013 Jul-Aug, pages 40-41. Text recovered from the scanned page by OCR and lightly corrected; spelling may differ from the printed edition.

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Hoi An’s ancient trading port and lantern-lit old town

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INDONESIA Komodo National Park Komodo National Park, nestled between the islands of Flores and Sumbawa in Indonesia, consists of three large islands namely Komodo, Rinca and Padar. It is home to the legendary Komodo Dragon the largest lizard in the world. The park’s terrain is uniquely divers savannah, and pristine white sandy beaches which harbour rich marine biodiversity. The marine environment in the Komodo National Park is one of the world’s richest in flora and fauna andis still relatively undiscovered. Many begin their excursion to visit the park’s three islands by hiring private boat tours through the local port town of Labuan Bajo on Flores island. Form here, daily itinerary consists of snorkelling, diving and discovering more of the magical underwater landscape of Komodo National Park. Hiking up to the tops of Rinca and Padar islands to catch the sunset is also popular. For five-star experience by the sea, Aman Resorts, plies the waters from March to October where the journey

Royal Brunei Airlines flies Bali 5x weekly for easy connections to Labuan Bajo.

Board Tourism jetnam Santos, Joel Aaron VIETNAM An ancient trading port, Hoi An had the largest harbour in Southeast Asia in the 1st century and even opened its own stoneware kilns in the 15th century to support the growing popularity of the Japanese tea ritual. Today its eclectic collection of communal houses and 82 ancient tube-shaped houses many located on original streets of Hoi Anis characterised by harmonious blend of Vietnames: Chinese and Japanese influences. By night, the old town turns magical with an array of beautifully coloured lanterns lighting up the sidewalks and night markets. Explore the ancient town on foot, visit the markets, explore the express tailors and take up cooking by the river.

Outside of Hoi An are peaceful villages that have artisanal and

Rent bike or taxi to see how these crafts have resisted time.

Royal Brunei Airlines flies Ho Chin Minh City 6x weekly for easy connectionsto Hoi An,

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Vietnam’s rapid growth and its rising tourism appeal

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fact that so much is happening in Vietnam is all the more impressive in light of just how quickly things have progressed here,” says Herbert Laubichler-Pichler, General Manager of The Anam. “The World Bank describes Vietnam’s rapid progress from being one of the world’s

poorest countries only few decades ago to its current lower middle income status as second-fastest growth rate in GDP per person since 1990, and no doubt tourism has played

role in this positive trajectory.”

biggest island is also Vietnam’s hottest

new destination. Renowned for its natural

splendour, placid waters, iconic fish sauce, black pepper and prominent place in the history of the Nguyen Dynasty, Phu Quoc island is fast developing reputation as answer to Thailand’s Phuket. “The beach experience on Phu Quocis one of kind in Vietnam. This is tropical island setting that comes right out of storybook and is all the more spectacular every day at dusk when the sun goes down over the Gulf of Thailand,” says Peter Feran, General Manager of Blu Resort Phu Quoc.

As first Radisson Blu property, Radisson Blu Resort Phu Quoc’s debut heralds

anew era for the Radisson Hotel Group.

“The group is pursuing all sorts of promising

development opportunities in leading

Vietnamese destinations from Hanoi to Danang to Ho Chi Minh City. At the same time, the group is exploring Dalat, Hue, Quy Nhon, Mui Ne, Sapa and Hai Phong. Our enthusiasm for Feran continued. For now, the group is focusing on launching Radisson Blu Resort Cam Ranh Bay and Radisson Resort Phu Quoc, four-star 218-room property on Truong Beach.

Given just how special Vietnam is and its immense potential, Vietnam’s reinvention as Southeast Asia’s most exciting tourist destination is just beginning. And now, with relaxation of visa rules and positive economic

outlook, Vietnam is set to rewrite its story.

The ochre buildings in Hoi An date back to when the Dutch and Japanese used it as trading post. The world-renowned Halong Bay.

Amarket in Con Dao.

Six Senses Ninh Van Bay’s hilltop pool villa

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Vietnam is the next big hot spot

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Vietnam is the next big hot spot. rds ANIS RAMLI Vietnam is changing. That’s the short of it.

If its wars once defined the literary culture and shaped populist thoughts, today’s Vietnam aims to correct that perception. The country’s Orientalism mystic was never lost upon literary greats such as Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene. Through their lens, Vietnam was the “Far East” waiting to be discovered for its grand hotels and colonial charm. Hollywood too, has helped the Vietnamese shift. In such films such as Kong, for example, we finally the country’s wildly diverse landscapes and majestic scenery represented for what they are than beyond template for bruised battlefield.

dunes of is any and traveller’s dream. As one travels around this Southeast Asian country, the scenery can change from terraced rice fields one moment (Sapa) to the soft desert dunes of Mui Ne the next. There’s just an incredible breadth and depth to Vietnam. Itinerary favourites include Vietnam’s economic hub Ho Chi Minh City with its Old Quarter, the limestone karsts of Halong Bay, the ancient imperial capital at Hue, Hoi An’s quaint beach city of Danang, pristine Phu Quoc island and Spa the mighty Mekong Delta where the river that rushes and

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Source: MUHIBAH, the Royal Brunei Airlines in-flight magazine, 2018 Nov-Dec, pages 25-28. Text recovered from the scanned page by OCR and lightly corrected; spelling may differ from the printed edition.

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Full focus on you and the family at The Anam

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seaside resort The Anam.

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Amanoi’s holistic retreat in Ving Hy, Vietnam

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SONG SAA PRIVATE ISLAND Cambodia ub and wrap the bio magnetic mental clarity and del

levels of the immun and ah cope with everyda’

Royal Brunei Airlines flies Ho Chi Minh City 4x weekly for easy connections to Siem Reap.

AMANOI Vietnam On this gorgeous resort on the picturesque Ving Hy help control and manage your weight in healthy and holistic manner. Amanoi’s ethos is in encouraging and supporting the balance of the energies.

Once you’ve done your physical consultation with the will be prepared for you. Using multi-pronged approach, your retreat will include advice on nutrition, movement sessions and spa treatments all designed to maximise the effectiveness of the digestive and can last between three to 10 days and, at the end of it, you’ll return home with lighter state of body and national park and marine reserve, offers excellent walking trails in addition to all kinds of water sports the programme’s therapeutic aspect. Royal Brunei Airlines flies Ho Chi Minh City 4x weekly for easy connections to Cam Ranh,

Singapore for the inner culture vulture.

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Do not believe that Singapore is made only for those with penchant for shopping. Look beyond the malls and you will find city that is constantly reinventing itself to be the art hub of the world.

From visual arts to dance and theatre, there are art events and festivals happening in Singapore

throughout the year, and always something for every kind of art enthusiast out there. The arts scene in Singapore is constantly evolving and changing, giving visitors something new to look forward to each time they visit museum,

performing arts hub or art enclave.

There are always colourful take place. If you’re looking any other, Singapore as

variety of art events that for visual feast unlike city will not disappoint.

First off, Singapore Art Week. This celebration of the visual arts is an annual affair that typically occurs in and highlights. There is something artsy (walking more) to do in almost every neighbourhood in the city, from Chinatown to Marina Bay and of course,

art hotspots like Gillman Barracks and the Bras Basah.Bugis precinct.

One of the biggest and must-attend segments is Art Stage Singapore. Known as the flagship art fair of Southeast Asia, Art Stage Singapore features handpicked galleries from across the region as well as slew of bold contemporary art. It’s big gathering of the ‘who’s who’ in the contemporary art scene in Asia, so if you live and breatheart just like the rest of these key players, here is where you want to be and rub shoulders with international and

local artists, collectors and curators:

Of course, we must never overlook one of the biggest, most major contemporary art events in Singapore the Singapore Biennale. Taking place once every two years and organised by the Singapore Art Museum, the venue itself is mustvisit for any art lover in town. Each year, different

theme is chosen and the works and displays featured would follow it closely. For example, in

2013, the Biennale was titled “If the World Changed” (Japanese couple Ken and Julia Yonetani built mesmerising glowing chandeliers made from uranium glass and UV lighting in reaction to the (Shieko Reto’s exhibition was both serious and and intriguing sketches). Check out the Singapore Biennale website for more information on these

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The Anam, where hundreds of local artworks fill the resort

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curated guide to feast your eyes on the brightest talents in Nha Trang.

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THE ANAM

At Vietnam’s most ambitious new coastal resort,

Conical hats weaving,Mai Loc. the 213-room The Anam is shepherding guests into

the galleries and homes of talented local artists and

The resort’s commitment to the arts is obvious all over its grounds, where an eclectic collection of hundreds of artworks by local artists hang from its walls and bedeck its pedestals.

“Our part of Vietnam is famous for its beaches, its islands, its Cham towers and its seafood,” said The

“It should be famous for its art, and we hope to help make that happen.” Driven by his interest to get to enlisted Nguyén Hong Van, who opened Nha Trang’s first art gallery called The Rainbow Gallery, to create the Nha Trang Art Tour, providingthe ultimate “insider” knowledge about the destination.

Harvest, Bui Van Quang. Memory Vietnamese

Tran Thi Bao Tran.

As part of this intimate seven-hour tour, Hong Van and Laubichler-Pichler welcome art lovers into the homes and to tourists, providing new perspective of Vietnam and its people through their art ranging from oil paintings and metalwork to sculpture and photography. The tour wraps up with dinner at local Vietnamese restaurant renowned for its seafood The life story of one of the tour’s artists, Mai Léc, epitomises rapid transformation. Once living under the poorest conditions as miner, he met Norwegian couple by chance in 1995. They kept in touch and for his wedding, the couple gave him camera, completely changing his life. Today Mai Léc is soughtafter photographer who has exhibited his striking blackits people in Canada, Finland, Austria and other parts of the world

Painter Bui Van Quang, member of the Vietnam Fine Arts Association, is also on the tour, showcasing lives of Vietnamese through use of the country’s rich colours. Other artists involved include painters Tran Thi Bao Tran and her husband Lutu Thanh Qua, Nguyén Bai, Ngd Dang Hiép and Lé Huynh, metalwork artist Bui Trung Chinh and sculptor Doan Xuan Hung.

Source: MUHIBAH, the Royal Brunei Airlines in-flight magazine, 2018 Mar-Apr, pages 10-13. Text recovered from the scanned page by OCR and lightly corrected; spelling may differ from the printed edition.

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Exotic Voyages takes travellers to King Kong locations in Vietnam

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includes mountains surrounded rae rivers and marshes.

Kong’s Vietnam is the latest instalment in series of packages that deliver travellers direct to the sites of their favourite movies. In September last year Exotic Voyages Modern Take On Cla: james Bond,” inspired by the.1944 flick locations in Hong Kong. Kong’s Vietnam

from now tilt 10, 2018. For more details, please visit exoticvoyages.com/king-kong-tour/

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Bangkok’s community malls

provide physical place to«

congregate, connectand.engage.

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Bangkok wants you to rewrite the way you experience malls. At The Commons, yesterday’s fluorescent-lit indoor space has been replaced with vertical open-air outfit that seems to fold upwards. Indoors, pockets

of garden on element that is It’s airy, it’s signalling to

every floor create visible green welcome oasis for urbanites. spacious, lot of light. It’s Bangkok’s love affair with new

of urban space that offers more than just shopping experience. “It’s our intention to build first community, then mall,” say-Vicharee and Varatt Vichit- Vadakan, founders of The Commons. “We hope to promote wholesome living and true sense of community.” Indeed, the four-storey architecture is not your typical shopping mall.

Divided into four distinct areas, each with its own character, The Commons gathers spegialised producers offering customers an intimate social experience, whether it’s in invites people to linger, an inviting change to the numbing mundanity of the everyday malls.

There is distinct backyard vibe, with tables hidden in leafy nooks, wooden stairs designed as hangout spaces, miniature herb garden for the kids to explore and cooking corner that hosts workshops on occasion. colossal fan creates constant breeze through the tropical outdoor space to cool pedestrians.

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community mall goes beyond place for those in the neighbourhood to see each other often. It also allows people to drop by and be “at home” in public. When The Circle first opened on the other side of the river in Thonburi, it added touch of hip to this otherwise sleepy neighbourhood.

Yet it served the area well. Surrounded by gated community homes, The Circle targeted the wellheeled suburbians who preferred to stay and shop where they are. Restaurants and cafes aside, The Circle created close-knit community with its and Marketing Director t’s important to us to continuously offer the community an urban but balanced lifestyle. That is why we are now in the process of re-branding The Circle as well as renovating some of the space.” The new, revamped community mall will be organised

around common spaces set within lush green areas. There will be wooden patios to create more paths that connect guests with trees gracing the primary goal of engaging the community with nature, The Circle’s revamped tenants will also focus heavily on producers of organic and sustainable farming with craftsmanship and green ethics. “More than that, once The Circle is relaunched, we want it to become centre for more family activities; place they can

consider their second home,” says Warinlada.

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Kong’s Vietnam journey to Hang Son Doong and Phong Nha

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Revealing the magnificent home of King Kong.

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For movie buffs keen to experience the otherworldly settings in actual Vietnam where much of the moviewasshot,percan

oiled beauty. Its 10-day “Kong’s Vietnam’ trip ventur the depths of Vietnam from Quang Binh Province to Halo

where dramatic backdr explore the in Phong Nha-Ke

limestone karst mountains provide prime\ tures. In Quang inh, guests can caverns of Phong Nha and Paradise Cave Bang National Park. Further afield, the world’s Doong Cave, awaits. With caverns that can

ever imagine. ing National Park

the number of visitors to the site, hence one year

oking uired if you wish to explore the

alsettingsin Vietnam, off the beaten tourist as raw and unbelievable as King Kong himself,” arroll, global head of Sales and Marketing at

why came here. That’s

Nha-Ke Bang National Park that was inscribed inthe UNESCO World Heritage list in 2003, claims some of the top caves in the world, holding records for the longest underground river, the highest and longest cave, the broadest and most beautiful fine sand beaches within cave, and the at 31 kilometers long, is also the longest dry cave in Asia. In Quang Binh, travellers will visit Nuoc Mooc stream for picnic lunch, surrounded by dense tropical jungle and celestial limestone karsts.

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Kong’s Vietnam includes visitto Hanoi, that has ancient history, colonial legacyand modern outlook.

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