Sacred ground
— August 1, 2013With thousands of ancient monuments to explore, the city of Bagan offers a seemingly endless journey into Myanmar’s fascinating past
Continue Reading ...With thousands of ancient monuments to explore, the city of Bagan offers a seemingly endless journey into Myanmar’s fascinating past
Continue Reading ...Are you always rushing from one place to the next? Do you often eat without really tasting the food?
Continue Reading ...A study by a communications agency finds that the women of Hong Kong, Taiwan and the mainland have vastly different outlooks on their lives and expectations
Continue Reading ...Jonathan Spence – historian, intellectual and eminent China scholar – is not one for a snappy answer.
Continue Reading ...Physicist Michael Johnson is drumming up support and funding for his project, to launch tiny spacecraft into space and to the moon
Continue Reading ...Getting to North Korea is the easy part – the real dilemma is whether or not to go. By visiting one of the world’s most isolated regimes are you condoning what goes on there, does it mean you’re ok with throwing political prisoners in labor camps – for three generations? It’s one of the few places…
Continue Reading ...Christopher Doyle is fresh off the plane from Toronto and says he’s sipping his first Bloody Mary of the day, but is it really? You have to wonder.
Continue Reading ...The Hong Kong Book Fair, now in its 25th year, remains firmly focused on the Chinese-language titles, but has begun to add professional elements and global authors. The Hong Kong Book Fair celebrates its 25 anniversary this year and organizers hope that it will finally see one million visitors pass through the doors. The fair,…
Continue Reading ...Hong Kong’s own book fair celebrates 25 years with rising attendances, but the line-up of visiting authors leaves room for improvement
Continue Reading ...HONG KONG: Asia is an important growth market for Britain’s second-largest publisher, Hachette UK. Sales in the region have grown faster than European markets and Group Chief Executive Officer Tim Hely Hutchinson sees no sign of slowing.
Continue Reading ...Sacked British adviser fights lonely battle to prove psychoactive drugs may be effective in treating depression and post-traumatic stress
Continue Reading ...When Jimmy’s Kitchen closes its doors at the end of this month many will mourn the loss of one of Hong Kong’s oldest and most stories. Indeed, the 92-year-old Central eatery was set to close in April but was given a month’s reprieve following a surge of interest from patrons who wanted to dine at…
The chairman of Heywood Hill, a London bookstore, tells Kate Whitehead about the snake in the bath at his Shek O ‘shack’ and playing Scrabble in Myanmar with diplomats sacked by the SLORC.
Local favourites joined by overseas comedians for ninth annual show
Living in Hong Kong gives comedians plenty of material
Hong Kong is the epicentre of the global shark fin trade and accounts for about 40 per cent of the market Cornish, who grew up ‘chasing snakes’ in the city, is working to recover critically endangered shark and ray populations Wild child: I was born in Chertsey, in Surrey, in the UK, in 1970, and my…
Why does Duterte dislike the Catholic Church? How did the privileged son of a provincial oligarch develop his rough-edged gangster charm?