Love, ambition, spectacle and unfinished stories—these were the Tatler’s most read stories from all over Asia in the past year
If traffic is a form of truth-telling, then Tatler Asia’s most read stories of 2025 paint a revealing portrait of what readers craved: intimacy alongside excess, intellect alongside escapism, and stories that promised either emotional resolution—or deliciously refused to provide it. These weren’t just popular articles; they were cultural touchstones that people lingered on, debated, shared and returned to.
Across weddings and wealth, K-dramas and C-dramas, celebrity homes and mind-game reality shows, a pattern emerges. Readers were drawn to narratives of control and release—whether it was a perfectly choreographed two-day wedding in Malaysia, a star buying her way into Gangnam’s rarefied air, or fictional characters refusing to accept the endings handed to them. These ten stories form a mood board of a year defined by longing, spectacle and the quiet pleasure of looking just a little closer.
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A timeless love story from Malaysia
Who doesn’t love a good love story? The feature on the wedding of Yeoh Keong Wei and Deborah Low was Tatler Asia’s most read story across our network (Photo: Sarah Falugo)
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Inside the two-day wedding celebration of Yeoh Keong Wei and Deborah Low by Sim Wie Boon (May 2025)
At number one is this lavish yet deeply personal feature from Malaysia that chronicles the two-day wedding of Yeoh Keong Wei and Deborah Low, from a glass-marquee ceremony to a candlelit ballroom reception and a nostalgic after-party inspired by their teenage years. Woven through the spectacle is a decades-long love story that began in childhood, paused across continents and quietly found its way back.
Readers weren’t just consuming a wedding story—they were reading a romance with narrative weight. The story’s power lay in its restraint: wealth expressed through detail rather than excess, and emotion grounded in memory rather than performance. In a landscape saturated with curated luxury, this celebration felt earned, sincere and human.
