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With more than 500 dead in ten days around Golden Square, John Snow persuaded the parish to remove the handle from the Broad Street water pump. He had mapped the deaths house by house and found them clustered on one well - the argument that cholera travelled in water, not air.

Tai Ping Koon was established in 1860 serving Western food to Chinese diners, and in doing so more or less invented the genre Hong Kong calls soy-sauce Western - Swiss chicken wings in a sweet soy braise, baked pork chop rice, souffle to finish. It began in Canton and became a Hong Kong business alone when the Canton branch was confiscated and closed in 1956.

BYD listed its H shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on 31 July 2002, raising about HK$1.4 billion as a rechargeable-battery maker, months before it bought its first car company.

Diageo introduced Cîroc Red Berry, a 35% ABV raspberry-and-strawberry flavoured vodka, in the United States in February 2010 at about $30 for 750 mL, alongside Cîroc Coconut.

Chef Ar Chan’s contemporary Cantonese restaurant in SoHo, with wok cooking, dim sum and roast dishes.

Alo Yoga took about 14,000 sq ft at 96 Spring Street, on the corner of Mercer Street in Soho, with 11,000 sq ft of selling space over two floors.

A two-story Alo sanctuary at Spring and Mercer Streets with an organic café, a yoga studio and a community space; Alo called it its biggest location yet.

Zaha Hadid Architects’ twisting Beijing skyscraper opened with a 194-metre atrium spanning two towers built around a live subway line.

Vuori opened its first East Coast flagship at 106 Spring Street in SoHo, a roughly 5,000 sq ft store in a historic cast-iron building that was then its largest location.

A 10,000 sq ft Alo flagship at 150 Regent Street with two floors of shop and Alo's first gym and wellness club in the UK.

Debra Crew left Diageo as chief executive and board director with immediate effect by mutual agreement, two years into a tenure marked by falling sales and US tariffs, and CFO Nik Jhangiani became interim CEO.

Former Tesco chief executive Sir Dave Lewis took over as Diageo's CEO on 1 January 2026 on a £1.5 million salary, ending Nik Jhangiani's six months as interim chief after Debra Crew's exit.

Nike shut its decade-old SoHo flagship at 529 Broadway after IKEA owner Ingka Investments bought the building, ending a ten-year run in the roughly 55,000-square-foot property.

HSBC's privatisation of Hang Seng Bank became effective on 26 January 2026 and the shares were delisted on 27 January, making Hang Seng a wholly owned subsidiary of the HSBC Group.

Diageo's reported net sales fell 3.0% to $19.6 billion in the year to 30 June 2026 as North America dropped 8.4% and Chinese white spirits slumped, and new CEO Sir Dave Lewis unveiled about $1 billion of savings over three years.

Palace's Fall 2026 drop is headlined by a collaboration with Japanese fishing-wear label South2 West8, led by an olive camo River Trek Jacket with trucker hoodies, jerseys, caps and track pants.

Denim Tears releases the first of five drops of its Fall/Winter 2026 collection with the André Leon Talley Estate, the estate's first authorised apparel collaboration, across 153 pieces.

The British Fashion Council ran London Fashion Week's Spring/Summer 2027 season from Thursday 17 to Monday 21 September 2026, with 47 catwalk shows and 23 presentations including Sean McGirr's McQueen debut and Christopher Kane's first collection for Mulberry.

Denim Tears and COMME des GARÇONS Parfums release Tears, a $180 musk floral eau de parfum built around the smell of cotton fields in rural Georgia after rain.

Palace and Avirex follow their A-2 leather flying jacket with a second capsule of oversized co-branded sportswear: a tracksuit, zip hoods, long and short sleeve tees, a cap and a no-cuff beanie.

Palace's Winter 2026 season starts with its first weekly drop, a cold-weather range led by a shearling B-15 flight jacket, GORE-TEX WINDSTOPPER patchwork parkas, Realtree camo and a 2000 AD Judge Dredd capsule.

Diageo reports first-quarter trading for fiscal 2027 and holds its annual general meeting on 5 November 2026, the first test of the broadly flat sales guidance Sir Dave Lewis set in August.