Adam Johnson
— November 3, 2016The Hong Kong International Literary Festival speaker, who won a Pulitzer Prize for The Orphan Master’s
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Nostalgia’s Guardian
— June 1, 2016He’s chairman of the oldest registered company in Hong Kong – that’s merely part of his day job
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Repression, psychopaths and the class system
— April 21, 2016Lawrence Osborne writer tells Kate Whitehead how a middle-class boy from Sussex became one of Britain’s
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Margaret Cho turns rage into laughter
— February 23, 2016Ahead of her Hong Kong debut next month, the Korean-American stand-up talks about striking the right
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Bookseller Nicky Dunne on “exotic” HK
— November 22, 2015The chairman of Heywood Hill, a London bookstore, tells Kate Whitehead about the snake in the bath at
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Other strings to his bow
— October 17, 2015Hong Kong-bound British-Norwegian musician, one of the hottest stars of classical music, explains how
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From Berkeley hippy to Dalai Lama’s personal physician
— May 15, 2016The American doctor and Buddhist monk, a visiting professor at the University of Hong Kong, tells Kate
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Li Huayi on his lucky life
— March 27, 2016Born in Shanghai in 1948, the artist spent the Cultural Revolution drawing propaganda posters and admiring
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Leader of the pack
— February 1, 2016Tasked with building upon one of Hong Kong’s greatest success stories, Aron Harilela shares his vision
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Partition, romance and a murder
— October 30, 2015The fashion designer tells Kate Whitehead about being uprooted by the partition of India, her doomed
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Father Franco Mella helping the downtrodden
— September 27, 2015The Italian priest tells Kate Whitehead how became fascinated by China, was eventually barred, and how
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The Big Freeze
— December 31, 2015Kate Whitehead puts on the layers and finds out just how cool Antarctica really is
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Home truths
— November 2, 2016Hong Kong-born Richard Bush, a former US Congressional adviser and intelligence officer, sees potential
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Anne Frank’s stepsister
— January 27, 2020The peace activist and international speaker recounts how she was torn from her happy childhood in Vienna
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Sacred ground
— August 1, 2013With thousands of ancient monuments to explore, the city of Bagan offers a seemingly endless journey
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Aung San Suu Kyi draws thousands to Myanmar’s first literary festival
— February 5, 2013Though the “Lady” was the main attraction, the Irrawaddy Literary Festival managed to focus
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Hong Kong’s giant rubber duck
— May 2, 2013Hong Kong’s busy harbor is never short of action, but the great big yellow duck that floated into