Kate Whitehead

Urban exploration is an edgy pastime. But give it a Japanese name and this underground community, known for seeking out derelict and often inaccessible environments, sounds even more hardcore.

What is it? Not the one and only One&Only, funnily enough, although it is the original, from which a chain of luxury resorts has been built that stretches from North America to Australia (Sanya will soon see China’s first). It’s not often that a mountain view beats a sea view, but Cape Town, in South…

Incidents of rage on flights between the city and the mainland are on the rise, as witness tells of passenger who punches stewardess

Physicist Michael Johnson is drumming up support and funding for his project, to launch tiny spacecraft into space and to the moon

Paul French has published two books this year: City of Devils: A Shanghai Noir and Destination Shanghai

A pictorial book documents the last women in China with bound feet, writes Kate Whitehead