Kate Whitehead

A chance invitation to French ethno-historian Françoise Pommaret to visit the Himalayan kingdom in 1981

Siak drew from her own life and her family story for her debut novel, The Woman Who Breathed Two Worlds,

Taiwanese bookstore Eslite is expanding at a time when bookstores around the world are folding.

The travel industry wants to cash in on the rise of short-haul travellers in Asia. One company has launched

Young people in Tin Shui Wai say they have been offered cash to stir up trouble at the Mong Kok protest

Ten years ago, the number of Western visitors to North Korea was well below a thousand a year, with Americans