Kate Whitehead

If walls could talk

A club membership can prove useful but it comes at a cost – and a wait

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…

How do Burmese punks keep their mohawks standing tall?

Marco Ferrarese talks about the sense of adventure that brought him to Asia and why contemporary travellers make him sick

Exploration is challenging. If it’s too easy, then it’s not real exploration. So says Wong How Man, a Hong Konger who in 1974 began leading expeditions into what was then one of the world’s most isolated countries — China. “It was a time when China had very few friends, so we decided to step in…