Michael Cartwright took up running at 44 to lose weight, but thought marathoners were crazy; after completing one in 2006, though, he caught the marathon bug. Now 60, the retired Hong Kong police officer offers his tips on running 42.1km.

The history-making Filipino Dynamos team can only train once a week, and depend on sponsors to cover boat hire and race fees, but are undaunted. They practice paddling, do yoga and strength training, and through it all build camaraderie.

Entire towns come together on Holi to splash and smear each other with coloured powder, paint and water, a tradition believed to have come from a boyhood prank that the god Krishna played upon Radha, his beloved.

Hong Kong’s Yama Foundation teaches yoga to children and adults with disabilities and chronic illnesses who might otherwise not get to practise it at all. Since 2016, it has provided more than 450 free classes to 900 people.

Star ultrarunning coach Jason Koop shares insights on why more people are getting hooked on endurance running, and tips on how to succeed at it. Plus seven tips on how best to recover.

Indian-Canadian actress Lisa Ray has worked as a top model, Bollywood actress and television host, but she is also a cancer survivor. Now based in Hong Kong, she speaks about her battle with multiple myeloma.

Angry at the quality of Alzheimer’s information available online after her mother was diagnosed with the disease, Deborah Kan set up her own website, Being Patient, to provide the answers people were looking for.

Hong Kong-based working mum Ming Chen runs marathons for fun, averaging more than two a year for the past 30 years. In training for her 65th marathon, she thinks she’ll stop at 88.

Sumit Nanda had constant headaches and bad digestion, until he saw an Ayurvedic doctor. Despite his scepticism, he found the treatment worked so well, he now runs an Ayurvedic company.

Hong Kong-based pair talk about their high-altitude trek around revered – and still unclimbed – mountain in Tibet, the pilgrims they passed, and how to prepare physically for the challenge.

Hongkonger Bhakti Mathur learns there are no short cuts to running marathons faster; ultrarunners advise her to run more, do strength training and lose weight ahead of a race to improve her times

John Wood, then a Sydney executive, was appalled when he visited a school in Nepal on holiday and saw only three books there; he returned with 3,000, and helped set up an education charity that has reached 12.4 million children in 20 years

Refugees in Hong Kong face a hard life and uncertain future as they await recognition of their status before heading off to a third country to be settled. We talk to members of Run, a non-profit group that aims to rehabilitate them through treks, runs, training and by offering online study opportunities

Bullet damage, a fractured spine and scoliosis; three people who were suffering from pain and lack of movement turned to a form of yoga taught by B.K.S. Iyengar, and improved the quality of their lives immeasurably