Kate Whitehead

The power had gone out. I was lying on the floor in the pitch black, listening to waves crashing on the beach outside, wondering whether the late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il had heard similar sounds as he fell asleep here.

Pulitzer Prize winner ponders the burden for only children of caring for their elderly parents, and talks about why publishers in Hong Kong and Taiwan wouldn’t touch her book One Child and why she funded its Chinese translation

A series of medical studies conducted on Mount Everest aims to help people suffering from a variety of conditions

Diversion of medicine from neediest still apparently plagues humanitarian aid

Straddling the equator between Columbia and Peru, Ecuador may be the smallest Andean country but it’s packed with startling landscapes and exciting things to see and do.

Although closed off from the world for 50 years, the reclusive Myanmar still developed a punk rock scene