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
Continue Reading ...A dearth of nightlife options and a series of power outages leave Kate Whitehead and her tour group wandering round Pyongyang looking for some fun
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 ...Like your sands white and sunsets bright? Myanmar is primed to become Asia’s hottest beach destination
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 ...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 ...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 ...With thousands of ancient monuments to explore, the city of Bagan offers a seemingly endless journey into Myanmar’s fascinating past
Continue Reading ...Are you always rushing from one place to the next? Do you often eat without really tasting the food?
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 ...Jonathan Spence – historian, intellectual and eminent China scholar – is not one for a snappy answer.
Continue Reading ...The fashion designer tells Kate Whitehead about being uprooted by the partition of India, her doomed romance with a Bollywood star and witnessing a killing at her restaurant.
Incidents of rage on flights between the city and the mainland are on the rise, as witness tells of passenger who punches stewardess
Demonstrators reject a gesture by the territory’s leaders as too little too late and are planning a rally for China’s National Day Protesters in Hong Kong clashed with riot police again last night, signalling a failure by the chief executive, Carrie Lam, to defuse the crisis — as evidence emerged of the strain the trouble…
A date changed Rabi Yim’s life forever – the man who had just professed his love for her crashed his car, leaving Yim in a wheelchair My mother was a nurse and after she married, she began working with my father in his jewellery company. I was born in Hong Kong in the 1970s –…
Osborne is the brains behind novels such as the Ballad of a Small Player and Hunters in the Dark, both of which are being made into films
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.