China’s frontiers: Is there anything left to explore? — June 11, 2014 Exploration is challenging. If it’s too easy, then it’s not real exploration. So says Wong Continue Reading ...
What can tourists expect when visiting North Korea? — December 2, 2013 The tour bus bounces along one of North Korea’s potholed roads, pop music blasting out over the Continue Reading ...
Malaysian novelist wins Man Asian Literary Prize — March 15, 2013 Malaysian author Tan Tweng Eng has won this year’s Man Asian Literary Prize for “The Garden Continue Reading ...
Hong Kong’s giant rubber duck — May 2, 2013 Hong Kong’s busy harbor is never short of action, but the great big yellow duck that floated into Continue Reading ...
Posing a colonial mystery — June 16, 2013 Christopher New revisits his beloved Hong Kong for a period tale
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Partition, romance and a murder — October 30, 2015 The fashion designer tells Kate Whitehead about being uprooted by the partition of India, her doomed
Margaret Cho turns rage into laughter — February 23, 2016 Ahead of her Hong Kong debut next month, the Korean-American stand-up talks about striking the right
Off the beaten track in North Korea — May 30, 2014 Planning a trip to North Korea’s seldom visited north-east? Kate Whitehead provides a guide to
Doing business in Myanmar — October 1, 2013 Change is happening fast in Myanmar. For 50 years the country stagnated under the thumb of the ruling