It’s not what you think. When the late Chinese master painter Zhang Daqian is referred to as “Picasso of the East” – it doesn’t mean …
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“I find Hong Kong has changed.” It’s the first thing voter Peter Tsai said as he came out of the polling station: “It is no …
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It was a very hot day. The unforgiving kind that left nowhere to hide. Cradled within the sweltering curves at the centre of one of …
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As love affairs go, it could count among the shortest. Not even an hour into office and already Hong Kongers were clamouring for their newly-inaugurated …
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The half-hour fireworks display in Victoria Harbour is long over, but the tens of thousands of voices that were raised in protest in Hong Kong …
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It shimmers shyly in the Western Pacific like an unpolished diamond in a nest of sparkling opals. Its size belying its strategic geographical importance. Saipan …
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March 11, 2011 is a date no one in Japan will forget. The “triple whammy” was like nothing any other country has been subjected to, …
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He was newly washed and freshly dressed when we met him. His clothes – clean and not ill-fitting. Which wasn’t usual by “street” standards. Smooth-faced …
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There’s no soft, spectacular sunset over Sabah this afternoon. No wisps of crimson, or feathery touches of pink. Dusk is settling like a heavy orange …
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A TEA SHOP in THAILAND On a quiet, cool evening, just days before Myanmar’s first elections in 20 years, a rowdy group of vibrant, middle-aged …
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