Kate Whitehead

Jonathan Spence – historian, intellectual and eminent China scholar – is not one for a snappy answer.

The former professional footballer, who will play for Liverpool FC Legends against Borussia Dortmund in Hong Kong on June 8, recalls his memorable days at the British club Hands off I was born in Barcelona in 1978. My father was an indus­tri­al engineer and my mother had a clothing store. When I was six years old,…

  Christopher Doyle is fresh off the plane from Toronto and says he’s sipping his first Bloody Mary of the day, but is it really? You have to wonder.

Women are making inroads into Asia Pacific’s senior management teams, but they need to be prepared to work hard, gain skills, ask for feedback and be resilient

A chance invitation to French ethno-historian Françoise Pommaret to visit the Himalayan kingdom in 1981 led to her making Bhutan her home

The chairman of Heywood Hill, a London bookstore, tells Kate Whitehead about the snake in the bath at his Shek O ‘shack’ and playing Scrabble in Myanmar with diplomats sacked by the SLORC.