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Long Reads

Video game addiction is real, says WHO, and it’s on the rise

By Kate Whitehead

16 Feb 2019

Summer holidays identified as addiction danger spot as youngsters spend unstructured time online
The Cabin in Chiang Mai offers a rehab programme for young male addicts but, at US$15,000 a month, it’s out of reach for many

Chinese culture

In the home of Tibetan scroll painting, everyone’s an artist

15 Feb 2019 1

Thangka, or scroll painting, originated as an aid to spiritual teachings, but has become a celebrated art form, spawning masters and masterpieces
Rebgong in Amdo, one of the three traditional regions of Tibet, has nurtured generation upon generation of fine artists

Chinese history

Beijing and Taipei National Palace Museums – a tale of two legacies

12 Feb 2019

Chengdu blossoming as China’s ‘park city’, but at what cost?

7 Feb 2019

Publisher completes Chinese zodiac series for Year of the Pig

12 Feb 2019

Murder in Peking — two hot takes on a grisly 1937 cold case

12 Feb 2019 1

Chef David Thompson. Picture: Jonathan Wong

Food and Drinks

How a ‘grumpy old dragon’ taught David Thompson all about Thai food

31 Jan 2019

China in 1980s: Lonely Planet’s first guide to country offers snapshot

12 Feb 2019 3

Vriko Yu (left) and Yu-De Pei inspect their coral nursery in Hoi Ha Wan, Sai Kung. Picture: James Wendlinger

Could Hong Kong be key to saving the world’s coral reefs?

12 Feb 2019

JackRabbot 1, a Segway platform mobile robot, in Stanford University’s AI Lab. Picture: Christie Hemm Klok

Artificial intelligence

Too white, too male: scientist stakes out inclusive future for AI

12 Feb 2019 5

Holocaust survivor on the Swiss diplomat who saved her life

25 Jan 2019 1

Families in China

Their mother killed their father, now they will grow up 9,000km apart

21 Jan 2019 49

How long do we really have to save the planet from global warming?

25 Jan 2019 16

Future of transport

Taking charge: China leaves world behind in electric bus race

23 Jan 2019 39

Dakpa Kelden, the owner of two boutique hotels Yunnan province, in China. Picture: Thomas Bird

Born in exile, the Tibetan who helped put Shangri-La on the map

17 Jan 2019

Chinese history

Computer modelling shows Beijing’s Old Summer Palace in its former glory

15 Jan 2019 2

Classical music

Hitting the high notes: global success awaits Asian ‘rock star’ conductors

13 Jan 2019

Ke Xu outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London. Picture: Kalpesh Lathigra for Bloomberg Businessweek

A Chinese maths prodigy, and the stolen codes that cost him his freedom

14 Jan 2019 43

Robert Glover with children in Nanning, Guangxi, in 2014. Picture: Care for Children

Families in China

The Briton who found families for almost 1 million orphaned Chinese children

11 Jan 2019 5

Japanese-occupied northeast China was a hotbed of warlords, bandits and pirates, with the frequent kidnapping of foreigners having become an integral component of the local economy. So why, then, did the snatching of a 19-year-old blond British newlywed become the news story of 1932?

Chinese history

When Chinese bandits kidnapped a blond British bride and her pets

10 Jan 2019 9

The clogged Citarum river, West Java, Indonesia. Pictures: James Wendlinger

Can Indonesia’s military clean up ‘the dirtiest river in the world’?

8 Jan 2019 1

Vidya Iyer, aka, Vidya Vox, in the LA Art District in Downtown Los Angeles. Picture: Ringo Chiu

YouTube sensation Vidya Vox on tradition, identity and a mash-up life

12 Feb 2019

Bhutan: more a big family than a country, says witness to its growth

4 Jan 2019

Food and agriculture

In China, women winemakers are the toast of the nation

28 Dec 2018