Helmi Yusof

Helmi Yusof

DEPUTY EDITOR (LIFESTYLE)

Helmi Yusof is the Deputy Editor of lifestyle news at The Business Times. He covers visuals arts, theatre, cinema, books, travel, leisure and lifestyle trends. He also profiles personalities and leaders from various industries. His Instagram username is @helmiseestuff. Prior to joining The Business Times, he was News Director at video news site RazorTV, and a journalist and sub-editor at The Straits Times.

The return of the Festival Village at the Singapore International Festival of Arts drew large crowds with its varied attractions, such as Noli Timere.
ARTS

Sifa 2026: A festival finds its balance

Chong Tze Chien’s first outing as festival director offers art for everyone – seriously

Amanda Heng goes against the grain in Venice with a radically quiet work.
FEATURE

‘Do nothing’: Amanda Heng’s un-Singaporean artwork at the Venice Biennale

The Singapore Pavilion is a meditation on rest, ageing and the body

Hamlet as you've never seen it, staged by Teatro La Plaza and played by a cast of actors with Down syndrome.
ARTS

Sifa 2026: classic theatre, radically reimagined

Hamlet, Hedda Gabler and Death of a Salesman return with bold new interpretations

Silversea cruise ships offer a refined sense of luxury.
TRAVEL

Silversea Cruises in Asia: A slower, deeper way to travel 

Come 2027, it will be the only global luxury line to offer a full summer season in Japan

Ho Ren Yung at the Mandai Rainforest Resort by Banyan Tree, a project that reflects her focus on sustainability and regeneration.
NEW-GEN HOTELIERS

Banyan Group heir Ho Ren Yung: ‘Better to be useful than happy’ 

The luxury hotelier on balancing inheritance, purpose and expansion

A detail of Ahmad Zakii Anwar's painting of bananas in "Passion Is Volcanic: Desire In Southeast Asian Art".
ARTS

National Gallery Singapore: Sex and desire in South-east Asian art

The museum’s new exhibition is the first to be rated R(18)

The iconic rainbow blocks of Rochor Centre were demolished in 2018 to 2019 to make way for the North-South Corridor.
ARTS

20 photos that show how dramatically Singapore has changed in two decades

Top architectural photographer Darren Soh revisits 20 years of documenting the city’s vanishing landscapes

Helmets, drones, stretchers and other symbols of war take centrestage in Ai Weiwei's solo show.
ART

Ai Weiwei in Singapore: Drones meet van Gogh in anti-war exhibition

His new solo show explores the human cost behind modern conflict

In Makan Culture, the audience gets to eat local food and debate over what makes "high" or "low" culture.
ARTS

Singapore’s food and hawker culture take to the stage

The city’s favourite dishes are powering new plays about who we are

Since 2023, Louis Vuitton has partnered with People For Wildlife in Australia to support biodiversity restoration across a 400,000-hectare landscape.
STYLE

Louis Vuitton is rewriting its sustainability playbook

From circular design to regenerative sourcing, the French house is moving towards broader measurable impact