Down Under: Men watch twice the amount of online video as women
Here's an interesting stat to begin with: Australians Watched Nearly 3 Hours of Online Video per Viewer at YouTube.com in October ComScore today released its October 2010 rankings of the top video properties in Australia based on data from its comScore Video Metrix service. The report found tha [...]
Food of my roots, rediscovered
Food’s always been a big part of my life. My father, you see, was a cook. In those days, they didn’t have chefs, they were just cooks. He was one of those Hainanese folks who arrived in the then-Malaya and somehow most of them landed up in the food business.They were the pillars of South-east As [...]
G’day mates, I’m feeling as dry as a dead dingo’s dong
There was a moment last week when I conceded to myself that I had been “aussified”.It’s a similar experience to being ossified - afterwards, I felt I had turned to bone.After almost 30 years of living in Australia, but still carrying a UK passport, supporting Arsenal and favouring UK bra [...]
Hackers unite at Abacus Hack Day 2010
What do you get when you put developers and techies together for 24 hours? The creation of innovative and inspiring hacks. Over Oct 18 and 19 at Carlton Hotel, Singapore, a 24-hour programming marathon where participants from Abacus and Abacus' partner companies came together to brainstorm and deve [...]
Hail the rice fields and hawkers
Morten Lund’s words at the WIT Conference about us getting too far from the rice fields have been ringing in my head.When I was growing up, the state closest to my home island of Penang, Kedah, was known as the rice bowl of Malaysia. It still is, according to some tourist information websites I br [...]
Hang on tight, we’re going for a Harley ride
“Hold me tight,” he said to me as I got onto the back seat. Willingly, I did. Not because I fancied John Karmouche or anything, mind you, but because it was my first time on the back of Harley Davidson and frankly, it’s a great beast to get your legs over.Like his bike, John is a tower of stre [...]
HEDNA U to be held during WIT, ITB Asia week
HEDNA, the not-for-profit trade association whose worldwide membership includes executives and managers from the most influential companies in the hotel distribution industry, will be staging its HEDNA U in Singapore in conjunction with the Web In Travel conference and ITB Asia next week.HEDNA U wil [...]
Hey, Singaporeans are an adventurous bunch
Singaporeans get a bad rap for being risk-averse and are the butt of “kiasu” (the local term for being afraid to lose) jokes but a new survey proves the opposite.Indeed, the survey commissioned by Guinness as part of the Guinness Adventures campaign reveals that Singaporeans are an adventurous l [...]
Bullish outlook tipped for Asia Pacific travel
Asia Pacific is emerging as one of the most dynamic regions for world tourism in 2010 – outbound travel is increasing at double-digit rates and will end this year well ahead of 2008 levels and strong growth is expected in 2011.Asia Pacific is demonstrating this year that it is one of the engines [...]
Compliance and mobile – two words that will rule corporate travel
Greg O'Neil, President, Asia Pacific, BCD TravelQ: What are the three things you think will happen in the corporate travel space in 2011? • Great focus on Asia Pacific travel management capabilities and forced alignment with global programmes – while challenging, we will be forced to do so for [...]
