Raffles Hotel in Singapore is perched like an iced cake on Beach Road, its filigreed tiers framed by palm trees. The valets are dressed in the uniforms of Imperial Indian soldiers, stitched by Gieves ...
It’s three o’clock at Singapore’s Woodlands station, and no one is in a hurry. Passengers dressed for the autumn heat trickle onto the platform, where staff in high-collared gray silk uniforms hand ...