Kate Whitehead

There’s no room for egos at Shanghai-based island6 gallery, where artists work as a team

Thirty-eight years ago this week, John MacLennan died of gunshot wounds; a public inquiry heard claims he’d been hounded into killing himself because of his homosexuality. It’s a case with lessons still for a socially conservative city

Portugal’s capital is one of Europe’s hottest hotspots and now it has a high-end hotel to match What is it? The grande dame of Lisbon’s boutique hotel scene – it was until 1980 The Grand Hotel L’Europe – the Bairro Alto has been treated to a major makeover and expansion by Pritzker prize-winning architect Eduardo Souto de…

More than half the Hong Kong workforce is made up of women, but they are not well represented at senior levels The corporate world looks nothing like it did 50 years ago – it’s faster, super hi-tech and, critically, there are women in the workplace in numbers that couldn’t have been imagined half a century…

Novelist Margaret Drabble the biggest draw of two-week festival that starts on October 26; Chinese American chef Ken Hom and philosopher A.C. Grayling among the authors you shouldn’t miss

The pro-democracy demonstrations that have lasted here for just over a month show no sign of coming to an end