Students set sights on Mars landing
— August 25, 2013Thousands, including two from Hong Kong, apply for the ultimate reality show – a one-way trip to colonise the red planet with cameras in tow
Continue Reading ...Thousands, including two from Hong Kong, apply for the ultimate reality show – a one-way trip to colonise the red planet with cameras in tow
Continue Reading ...Sea life and mini golf are North Korea’s latest propaganda tools
Continue Reading ...The city of Pyongyang may conjure up images of Mass Games and goose-stepping sentries, but the North Korean capital looks very different from the place it was 10 years ago.
Continue Reading ...It has the world’s tallest unoccupied building, it puts on the world’s biggest annual show and it’s sometimes prone to petulant nuclear threats. But what else do you know about North Korea?
Continue Reading ...Are you always rushing from one place to the next? Do you often eat without really tasting the food?
Continue Reading ...Jonathan Spence – historian, intellectual and eminent China scholar – is not one for a snappy answer.
Continue Reading ...Like your sands white and sunsets bright? Myanmar is primed to become Asia’s hottest beach destination
Continue Reading ...The North Koreans know how to put on a show and this year — the 60th anniversary of the end of hostilities in the Korean War — they’ve gone all out for the Mass Games.
Continue Reading ...With thousands of ancient monuments to explore, the city of Bagan offers a seemingly endless journey into Myanmar’s fascinating past
Continue Reading ...A study by a communications agency finds that the women of Hong Kong, Taiwan and the mainland have vastly different outlooks on their lives and expectations
Continue Reading ...Physicist Michael Johnson is drumming up support and funding for his project, to launch tiny spacecraft into space and to the moon
Continue Reading ...A documentary film shows how those who seek travel adventure can turn unspoiled destinations into crowded eyesores
One rehab clinic operating in Hong Kong has recorded a 30 per cent increase in the number of people seeking help for sex addiction – and counsellors believe hook-up apps, such as Tinder, are to blame
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…
Dapiran covered Article 23, the government’s campaign of ‘lawfare’ and the expulsion of pro-democracy lawmakers at the Hong Kong International Literary Festival, but says he still has great hope for the city’s future
North Korea isn’t known for its beauty industry, but the isolated state does produce its own beauty brand — Pomhyanggi Cosmetics — and even exports some goods overseas.
Chan Koonchung satire shows how inequalities of power warp the China-Tibet relationship