Nearly everyone of note stayed at the stately Strand hotel which boasted one of the finest European restaurants in Asia an enclave of European style founded by the same Armenian family who owned Singapore's Raffles.
In five years, Lever Style expects about 80% of its production to be outsourced to factories it manages throughout Asia, and half its clothing to be made outside China.
Sustained by its high growth rates, Asia has time yet before the cost of health and aged care becomes an overwhelming force and threatens a Eurozone-style crisis.