State of play
— September 1, 2013A dearth of nightlife options and a series of power outages leave Kate Whitehead and her tour group wandering round Pyongyang looking for some fun
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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
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Weapons of mass distraction
— August 20, 2013Sea life and mini golf are North Korea’s latest propaganda tools
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Myanmar’s best beaches
— August 19, 2013Like your sands white and sunsets bright? Myanmar is primed to become Asia’s hottest beach destination
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While the Rest of North Korea Struggles, Pyongyang’s Fortunate Few Go Shopping
— August 19, 2013The 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.
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North Korean Mass Games
— August 9, 2013The 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.
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10 things to know before visiting Pyongyang
— August 9, 2013It 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?
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Sacred ground
— August 1, 2013With thousands of ancient monuments to explore, the city of Bagan offers a seemingly endless journey into Myanmar’s fascinating past
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Meditation leads to an effective use of the brain
— July 29, 2013Are you always rushing from one place to the next? Do you often eat without really tasting the food?
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The pressures faced by Hong Kong women
— July 22, 2013A 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
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As luck would have it
— July 21, 2013Jonathan Spence – historian, intellectual and eminent China scholar – is not one for a snappy answer.
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— May 17, 2020When Jimmy’s Kitchen closes its doors at the end of this month many will mourn the loss of one of Hong Kong’s oldest and most stories. Indeed, the 92-year-old Central eatery was set to close in April but was given a month’s reprieve following a surge of interest from patrons who wanted to dine at…
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Not THAT Gordon Chang
— September 3, 2016Being mixed up with China sceptic is ‘the bane of my life’, says Gordon H. Chang, recently in Hong Kong, who sees America as both fearful of and attracted to China but unlikely to be eclipsed by the rising power any time soon