Kate Whitehead

It’s a village not a town. So say residents of Bathurst, a magnet for the creative and curious located in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, approximately 12 kilometers from Port Alfred. Residents are proud of the eccentricity of their town. Or village. “You’ve got to have certain things to be a town, like a…

Overall retail sales, provisionally estimated at 38.3 billion Hong Kong dollars, rose 1.4 percent in October from a year earlier

Elsewhere in the world, orchestras are often struggling to maintain interest and audiences. As the Hong Kong Philharmonic passes its 40th anniversary, morale has never been higher.

Osborne is the brains behind novels such as the Ballad of a Small Player and Hunters in the Dark, both of which are being made into films

While we should be grateful for our efficient trace and test system, restrictions remain draconian Government quarantine facilities are particularly tough on children, especially those separated from parents A year into the pandemic and in Hong Kong we are still at greater risk of being thrown into quarantine than getting Covid-19. Yes, it’s a first…

Adam Zagajewski’s exile-tinged poems strike a chord on the mainland