Malaysian author Tan Tweng Eng has won this year’s Man Asian Literary Prize for “The Garden of Evening Mists,” set in the aftermath of the Japanese occupation of Malaysia.
The North Koreans know how to put on a show and this year — the 60th anniversary of the end of hostilities in the Korean War — they’ve gone all out for the Mass Games.
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…
Philippe Grelon passed on his passion for sailing to his family, especially his youngest son, Cosmas When Philippe Grelon was a young boy growing up in Lille, in northern France, he dreamed of sailing. Aged eight, he constructed a makeshift boat complete with wooden mast and sail, and tested it out in the garden. “I…