Posing a colonial mystery
— June 16, 2013Christopher New revisits his beloved Hong Kong for a period tale
Continue Reading ...Christopher New revisits his beloved Hong Kong for a period tale
Continue Reading ...As the country is wracked by power shortages, some of the fences are live and some aren’t. Good luck figuring out which is which
Continue Reading ...Multitasking, adventure-loving, billionaire Jim Rogers on his latest big thing
Continue Reading ...Mindfulness meditation, a form of the Buddhist practice developed in the West and now available in Hong Kong, can restructure the brain
Continue Reading ...At incubator company Nest, budding entrepreneurs get 15 minutes to wow investors into funding their dreams
Continue Reading ...Hong Kong’s busy harbor is never short of action, but the great big yellow duck that floated into town on Thursday captured the city’s attention.
Continue Reading ...Taiwanese bookstore Eslite is expanding at a time when bookstores around the world are folding.
Continue Reading ...Born to Hong Kong parents, Nathanael Wei is the youngest member of Britain’s House of Lords.
Continue Reading ...The winner of this year’s Pritzker Prize, Toyo Ito tells Kate Whitehead that the 2011 Tohoku earthquake taught him a great lesson and explains why architecture must be felt with your entire body
Continue Reading ...Although closed off from the world for 50 years, the reclusive Myanmar still developed a punk rock scene
Continue Reading ...Incidents of rage on flights between the city and the mainland are on the rise, as witness tells of passenger who punches stewardess
Continue Reading ...Carbon offsetting schemes allow people and companies to invest in projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions to compensate for their carbon footprints Carbon offsetting will be one of the biggest travel trends of 2020, and even of the decade, in large part thanks to pressure from climate change activists such as the Swedish teenager Greta…
After meeting and befriending director Bernardo Bertolucci, Basil Pao was offered a part in The Last Emperor For two months over the summer of 1986, photographer Basil Pao watched sunrise at the Meridian Gate, the largest gate at the Forbidden City in Beijing. As part of the team working on The Last Emperor, the early starts…
Thousands of protesters returned to the streets to demand free elections in Hong Kong Friday
Siak drew from her own life and her family story for her debut novel, The Woman Who Breathed Two Worlds, after battle with illness left her at her ‘lowest point’
I miss travelling. It has been 13 weeks and three days since my last trip and I’m in withdrawal. I don’t miss hanging around the airport or negotiating elbow space in Economy, but I do miss the thrill of discovering somewhere new. And I know I’m not alone. The sense of adventure that comes with…
Former jockey turned triathlete and ultramarathon runner Jo Lodder, 50, broke his collarbone in a fall, and was frustrated at how slowly it was mending. He tried the Vasper System, based on Nasa spacesuit cooling, which applies liquid cooling and compression to your muscles, and was amazed with the results Jo Lodder was a professional…