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Ten Things We Learned Making Our Website: Next week we start publishing our guide to creating a blog. We’re releasing it in 10 bite-size parts, one each day Monday to Friday over the next two weeks. It wraps up everything we’ve learned, what it cost, and the mistakes we’ve made. Basically it’s the guide we wish we’d had when we started out, and we hope it will help anyone who wants to set up a website from scratch.

Dragon Boat Festival: Dragon boat racing – said to be the world's fastest growing team sport – has been taking place around Hong Kong this weekend. Discovery Bay on Lantau Island has been putting out the flags for its event on Sunday, and we'll be blogging from it on the day.

The Lost Shopping Malls and Five-Star Hotels of Dubai: This week we published a post about the boom-and-bust construction frenzy in Dubai ten years ago. We moved there at an eventful time as vastly expensive and ever-more-outlandish development projects were announced almost daily. Then we witnessed the crash as the global financial crisis struck.

Getting in With the Malaga Gin Crowd: Cheers! Today, June 8, is World Gin Day, and to mark it we’ve published a post about Malaga, one of Spain’s gin capitals. Before its current rise to super-trendiness, gin tended to be associated with the English, but it’s also highly popular across Spain. We tasted the best gin and tonic we’ve ever had in a popular joint in Malaga.

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