Raymond Yang co-founded NGO Just Feel to train schools and families in compassionate communication. He recounts how his violent upbringing inspired him My father moved to Hong Kong from Fujian [in southeast China] in 1976 at the end of the Cultural Revolution, when he was 18. He worked super hard, as a street cleaner, a…
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Elderly-care homes in Hong Kong lost 20 to 50 per cent of their residents to Covid-19 during the fifth wave of the pandemic in 2022 The trauma of the pandemic is still being felt among the owners and staff of Hong Kong’s private elderly-care homes, which bore the brunt of the crisis and saw thousands…
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Nine months in Antarctica braving minus 80 C temperatures is one thing. It’s the three months of darkness that really do you in
Like your sands white and sunsets bright? Myanmar is primed to become Asia’s hottest beach destination
With thousands of ancient monuments to explore, the city of Bagan offers a seemingly endless journey into Myanmar’s fascinating past
Robbie Stamp recalls a brutal period of his life when he lost his firm, his father and his friend, and how making the 2005 film turned everything around Out of Africa My parents met and married in Johannesburg, South Africa. My father moved out there from the UK after the second world war with his first…
Documentary maker Nancy Tong talks to Kate Whitehead about her latest film and how it is prompting a new slant to her work
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.