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TATLER HONG KONG Foil fencer Daphne Chan is heading to the Olympics, where the city hopes she might follow in the footsteps of her idol Edgar Cheung Ka-long. It’s a lot of pressure for anyone, but the 19-year-old is refusing to let it get to her. TATLER MALAYSIA Actress and model Alicia Amin explained why she refuses to back down when she is criticised for being outspoken, and how she is working towards helping to create change in the creative and entertainment industries. TATLER PHILIPPINES Tatler Dining’s Rising Star 2024 Don Baldosano talked about being influenced by French chefs, his stint on Junior Masterchef, and his life goal of sharing “all the different facets of Filipino food”. TATLER TAIWAN Tommy Chen is the first Asian to have completed ultramarathons on…
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR What would everyday existence be like without entertainment? No music, no sports, no stories of kingdoms and their dragons, and no escape from routine. Surely, what captures our interest is also the force that keeps life in motion. My weekends, for example, are dedicated to black holes of time for videos of adorable, anthropomorphised animals living their best life. It is Dr Rudine Sims Bishop, a renowned scholar of children’s literature, who developed a framework in the 1990s for understanding literature and, by extension, entertainment. She famously promoted literature as a tool for self-affirmation, describing books as either a “window” to a new world that appeals to the imagination, or a “mirror” of our own lives to reflect on our own experiences. This “window or mirror”…
OSCAR CHIK Oscar Chik is a photographer and stylist based between London, Tokyo and Hong Kong. He studied fashion at Central Saint Martins in 2017 before moving to Japan, and he now works closely with many designers and other creative individuals. His photobook Digger was shortlisted for the Arles Book Award 2019. He shot this month’s fashion shoot. BJ PASCUAL BJ Pascual is a Manila-based fashion, portrait photographer and a writer. He has shot over 300 magazine covers, worked with international personalities like Elsa Hosk and Troye Sivan and luxury brands including Gucci, Chanel and Louis Vuitton. He published Push: Muses, Mischief, & How to Make It in Manila in 2015. He is also a popular social media personality, with 570,000 followers on Youtube and 773,000 on Instagram. This month,…
"Would you like to move my things to the floor so you can sit more comfortably?” Sara Jane Ho says with an easygoing charm, referring to her bag on the chair nearest to her during our chat at her photo shoot. Her tone, somewhere between casual and courteous, gives you the sense that she would go out of her way to find you a seat in a crowded room or make you feel right at home five minutes after meeting you. Spend a bit of time with her, and you’ll realise why she is so great at what she does. For starters, spending one’s childhood and teen years across Hong Kong, Papua New Guinea, the UK and the US teaches a girl a thing or two about breaking the ice…
For Sharath Nair, the magic of cinema began in the darkness of a movie theatre at the tender age of two. While most toddlers might have been frightened by the monstrous roars of Godzilla, young Nair found himself captivated. “I felt at home at the movies,” he recalls. This early fascination set the stage for a career that is changing the face of local Tamil cinema. At 31, Nair, popularly known as Shabby, is a rising star with a growing list of credits in film and television, including Telekinesis (2024), Neer Mel Neruppu (2024), Rajathanthiram: The Piano (2023), Detective Maniam (2022), Nadunisi KL (2022), and Manmadha Bullets (2021). However, it’s his upcoming role alongside renowned actor Sivakarthikeyan that promises to be his most high-profile project yet. Nair’s journey to the…
FRONT & FEMALE “We harness technologies such as AI, ML, cloud computing and the power of data to innovate” High-income earners and city dwellers often take banking services for granted—luxurious lounges, advanced digital banking, proximity to branches and ATMs, faster service, and easier loan approvals. These benefits are less accessible to rural residents and people of more modest means. This disparity was magnified during the pandemic, raising questions about equity in financial services and the potential long-term societal impacts of these gaps. Such was the situation that accelerated the push for digital banking services throughout Malaysia. Of the five digital banks that have obtained licences from Bank Negara, GX Bank is the first to go to market. Leading this is its innovative CEO, Lai Pei Si. Malaysia’s inaugural digital bank,…
