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Long Reads

‘I love myself so much, I don’t really care about others’

14 Dec 2018 5

‘If you love yourself too much, then loving others is just annoying … If you love the UK so much, you don’t care about Europe,’ Japanese writer and director says
His book If Cats Disappeared from the World explores the theme via a terminally ill man who trades memories, and the love attached to them, for a longer life

Yossi Alpher, in Central, in Hong Kong. Picture: Xiaomei Chen

The life and times of a Mossad agent, and what he did next

By Kate Whitehead

13 Dec 2018 2

Yossi Alpher talks about why he has two passports – American and Israeli – and says that he believes peace with the Palestinians is close to impossible

Health in China

Chinese school for the blind offers beacon of hope for rural poor

9 Dec 2018

Major League Baseball (MLB)

How Chinese baseball hit a home run in North Texas

8 Dec 2018 1

Australian classical pianist Geoffrey Lancaster. Picture: Edward Wong

Classical music

Australian classical pianist on finding God and rare pianos

7 Dec 2018

Food and agriculture

Chinese rice entrepreneurs aim to grow a safer, tastier grain

4 Dec 2018 1

Scams and swindles

Murky waters for investors in Asian undersea treasure hunts

1 Dec 2018

Food and Drinks

Thailand’s foodies divided over new Michelin guide

30 Nov 2018 1

Paul Cook, Sex Pistols’ drummer, performs with his band The Professionals, in Sweden, in June. Picture: Alamy

‘We don’t want anyone to have a heart attack’: Sex Pistols’ Paul Cook

29 Nov 2018

Gender equality

Genital mutilation, sexual assault, pay gap: the reality of women’s lives globally

27 Nov 2018

Climbing and mountaineering

Female Philippine climber set to be first to scale Seven Summits

29 Nov 2018 8

‘Recreational clubs’ in Hong Kong: up the creek without a paddle?

29 Nov 2018 15

Huntress Aigerim Asker trains ahead of the Golden Eagle Festival, in Ölgii, Mongolia, in October. Picture: Zigor Aldama

Gender equality

How female eagle hunters are challenging patriarchy in Mongolia

29 Nov 2018

Comedian Sony Chan, who was born in Hong Kong and raised in France. Picture: courtesy of Sony Chan

‘I don’t play the gender identity card’: trans comedian Sony Chan

23 Nov 2018 2

Fame and celebrity

Crazy Rich Asians’ Henry Golding on not being Asian enough

19 Nov 2018 7

Chinese history

Deng Xiaoping in France: the town where he became a Communist

19 Nov 2018 2

‘They wore bikinis even before the Italians did’: women in 1960s Turkey

17 Nov 2018

Legacy of war in Asia

An uphill battle: 80 million unexploded bombs still to clear in Laos

19 Nov 2018 27

K-pop, Mandopop and other Asian pop

Fans organise to push their Chinese idols to top of global hit parades

15 Nov 2018 2

Chinese history

Chinese Labour Corps: the first world war’s forgotten army

19 Nov 2018 6

Lion poaching: the latest threat to the prides of Africa

11 Nov 2018 3

Chef Gordon Ramsay at maze Grill, in Ocean Terminal, Tsim Sha Tsui. Picture: Dickson Lee

Food and Drinks

Gordon Ramsay: ‘I never wanted to be a TV chef’

10 Nov 2018 5

Prostitutes shocked Kipling, Hemingway got drunk: authors in Hong Kong

12 Nov 2018 2

What next for Vancouver, city awash with too much Chinese money?

11 Nov 2018