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The annual HWM+HardwareZone.com Tech Awards serves to honour the very best in tech brands, products and services.

This year’s Great Women Of Our Time award recipients are an audacious bunch and the world is better off because of their work. Join us as we celebrate the achievements of these true game-changers.

Stephan Kurzawski, Senior Vice President of Consumer Goods and Sales at Messe Frankfurt, shares more about one of the biggest international design fairs happening next year.

A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN

This month's chic list.

Award-winning Design Intervention wins again five awards at the Asia Pacific Property Award 2019.

Poland, known to be the shipyard to some of the world’s top yacht brands and commercial vessel builders, is strengthening global confidence in its domestic brands and expertise.

There’s no better time or place for yacht makers to unveil their latest creations than at the world’s most prestigious events on water at the Côte d’Azur this autumn. Here, we preview just a few of the head-turners at Cannes Yachting Festival (Sept 10-15) and Monaco Yacht Show (Sept 25-28).

The rise of local design competitions brings opportunity for young designers to showcase their talent. Here are some of the brand initiatives to get the creative juices going.

AsiaSpa magazine is proud to announce the 15th annual AsiaSpa Awards.

Whether you’re after natural beauty and cultural ruins or want to party and lounge poolside, Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula is the place to play.

Elevating the standards of luxury living, one home at a time.

This month’s chic list.

These Singapore artists – working with wildly differing media – share their artistic journey with Hayley Tai.

KNOWN FOR: GOURMET TRAILS, OF COURSE

We celebrate International Women’s Day with a coterie of women who are ground-breaking and pioneering in their respective (and respected) fields, from AI to social welfare to F&B. These are Singapore’s new game changers.

HWM+HardwareZone.com Tech Awards is back and the 2019 edition means a new round of polls to find the best technology brands of 2018.

What we’re all talking about this month.

RuPaul’s Drag Race alumni Detox recalls the dress that made everyone sit up and take notice.

Eight emerging designers from four countries brought talent and verve to an extraordinary edition of the Harper’s BAZAAR Asia NewGen Fashion Award.

From healthcare to technology, this year’s cohort of winning women are changing the world as we know it with their smarts, hard work and unwavering dedication to uplifting others.

One woman’s passion led her to start a hair salon in the early ’80s, and it has blossomed into an award-winning beauty dynasty.

As the 29th edition of The Singapore International Film Festival rolls around, we meet the power players of our film industry who are shaping, moulding and steering the visual language of cinema with their behindthe-scenes bravado

Green Entrepreneurs & Champions.

Following the recent conclusion of the P*DA, Christina Melander recounts some of the jury experience highlights and the biggest takeaway from this design competition.

WHETHER THEY’RE EMERGING TALENTS IN THEIR FIELDS OR BONA FIDE SUPERSTARS, THESE CREATIVES WANT THE WORLD TO KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THEY HAVE TO OFFER. MEET THE WOMEN WHO’VE GONE GLOBAL AND DONE SINGAPORE PROUD.

Having pre-dinner drinks is a great way to start an evening at Origin Grill & Bar. Decked out in dark wood and dotted with plush leather chairs, Origin Bar has a convivial vibe that makes you relax immediately. We enjoy the namesake Origin cocktail, a gin-based thirst-quencher made with spiced pineapple and sugar cane. We also have our eye on other intriguing cocktails such as Leaf The Curry (think curry leaf, tamarind, cardamom and aged rum), and tempting bar snacks (poached lobster roll with trout caviar, anyone?). Alas, dinner beckons.

When you step into Ushidoki’s main dining room in a shophouse on Tras Street, it’s clear that chef Hirohashi Nobuaki is not one to stick with tradition for the sake of it. The kaiseki master shifted his specialisation from seafood to beef two and a half years ago, based on one main approach: “(I applied) the ways I handle fish/ seafood to the way I handle the beef.”

Now into its 9th year, the annual G Restaurant Awards continues to celebrate the vibrancy of Singapore’s culinary landscape by recognising stellar dining experiences delivered by top restaurants in Singapore.

Ishi is the latest outfit to join the bevy of fine-dining Japanese restaurants in Singapore. Located on the second level of the new Intercontinental Robertson Quay, it serves Kappo cuisine, which features both cold and hot preparation using the season’s best ingredients.

Mezza9 has long been a standardbearer for champagne brunch and it continues to do so with Perrier-Jouet Grand Brut Champagne served by the bottle – or so it promises. During our visit, we don’t find our champagne bucket sitting tableside, but it doesn’t bother us as our glasses are vigilantly refilled. Our waiter, it seems, has made it his personal mission to ensure that no one leaves thirsty. Not once do we see the bottom of our vessel.

Nothing melts away your daily stresses like a trip to the spa: Whether it’s a facial, massage, mani-pedi or wax, these award-winning beauty treatments will have you looking and feeling your best. A perfect spa pampering session is just an appointment away!

The chic Mohamed Sultan district has seen its fair share of changes over the years, from being lined with rows of pubs and clubs, to becoming the locale of boutique hotels and expats.

This year marks the 9th edition of the annual HWM+HardwareZone.com Tech Awards, the tech industry’s premier event where we recognize the best brands, products, and services.

HWM Tech Awards winning brand and models for digital gadgets!

JACKSON AW MAKES TOYS THAT ARE SOUGHT AFTER BY COLLECTORS AROUND THE WORLD.

I was in a car coming home from the airport in 2010 when Diane von Furstenberg called me and said, “Darling, the CFDA has nominated you.” I’m like, “For what? I’m not a designer.” She said, “The Fashion Icon Award. It was unanimous.” And I said, “Well, I’m honoured.” Then automatically I was like, “What the hell am I going to wear?”

Writer Vicki Williams.

After modern Australian restaurant Whitegrass opened at Chijmes in 2016, the fine-dining circle waxed lyrical.

The wildly popular Vintage Champagne brunch at Colony is the most spectacular Sunday champagne brunch in town.

We expected to be treated to premium ingredients such as chutoro, otoro and uni in an omakase meal at Ki-sho.

There has to be a reason for Andre Chiang’s longevity in our dining scene, from the time he carved out his memorable creations at Jaan to his current full-fledged restaurant at Bukit Pasoh.

While most itamae (sushi chefs) wield a 27cm-long yanagi ba (sushi knife), chef Yuji Sato’s weapon of choice is a sustained 32cm.

This is the 8th edition of our annual HWM+HardwareZone.com Tech Awards, and in the last issue, we rounded up the products and technologies that won our Editor’s Choice awards.

We’ve tested, punished and put 135 products through their paces. So here are the best tech products of 2016, according to us, of course.

Torque awarded trophies to the 10 “Best In Class” winners in the ST-Torque Awards 2016, including the coveted Straits Times Car Of The Year 2016 award, which was won by the Volvo S90.

Every year, we celebrate the achievements of 18 outstanding women. Meet 2016’s winners…

From taking bold strides into male-dominated industries, to grooming the future generation of creatives, this year’s inspiring nominees of The Weekly’s Great Women Of Our Time Awards 2016 are daring dreamers changing our world…

WHAT TRIBUNAL’S JULY RULING IN FAVOUR OF THE PHILIPPINES MEANS.

Explore the rest of the ageLOC® series, all designed and formulated to restore youth and vitality to the skin and body

THE NAUTA-DESIGNED BALTIC 115 Nikata was the toast of the evening at the ShowBoats Design Awards 2016, winning in all four categories for which she was shortlisted.

The awards ceremony in singapore honoured the hard work, dedication and passion for boating shared by all of the nominees.

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In last month's issue of HWM, we looked at all the winners of the prestigous Editor's Choice at this year's HWM+Hard-wareZone.com Tech Awards. This issue, we explore instead the Readers' Choice results with detailed analysis of the best technology brands in Singapore, as voted by you. As one of the most comprehensive brand recognition surveys in the industry, The HWM+HardwareZone.com Tech Awards 2016 saw 40 categories and nearly 200 brands nominated for Readers' Choice polling.

Builders across the region are creating bigger, better, faster and more luxurious vessels than ever before. By Glen Watson

Torque presented trophies to the 10 “Best in Class” winners in the ST-Torque Awards 2015

These 55 women aged 20-34 dare to follow their hearts and do what they love. Here, they put their best faces forward.