The Guardian • 7th September 2018Welcome to 'Tourism Vacation Town': China to build $1.2bn holiday hotspot in Cambodia A $1.2bn Chinese-built “luxury city” is being built.
The Guardian • 5th September 2018Thai police academy bans women from enrolling A major police academy in Thailand has announced it will ban women from enrolling, sparking accusations of gender discrimination.
The Guardian • 3rd September 2018Reuters reporters investigating Rohingya crisis jailed for seven years Two Reuters journalists have each been sentenced to seven years in prison after they were found guilty breaching the official secrets act in Myanmar.
The Guardian • 3rd September 2018'A blow to press freedom': world reacts to jailing of Reuters journalists in Myanmar The seven-year jail sentence handed down to two journalists arrested while investigating a massacre of Rohingya Muslims was condemned worldwide.
The Guardian • 1st September 2018'This is history': Bangkok mall opens Thai rescue display, featuring plastic cave In Bangkok’s upmarket Siam Paragon shopping mall, close to a Cold Stone Creamery, a young man crawls through a small, dank-looking tunnel...
The Guardian • 31st August 2018Australian film-maker sentenced to six years' jail in Cambodia James Ricketson has been found guilty of espionage in Cambodia.
The Guardian • 12th April 2018Yang Fudong's best photograph: seven intellectuals in a boat suspended in the air "We found a boat-lifting machine and asked the actors to jump aboard, then set the mechanism in motion as we started to shoot."
The Guardian • 8th November 2017Matjaž Tančič's best photograph: a pink-hatted woman in Pyongyang Folklore Park The inside story of the Slovenian photographer's greatest shot.
The Guardian • 7th July 2017Failure of China's 'straddling bus' shows there's no magic bullet for traffic woes The plan always seemed a bit too good – or at least too brilliantly weird – to be true.
The Guardian • 31st March 2017Beijing hit by dirty smog but observers say air is getting better For Beijing’s residents, this winter brought a sense of deja vu: air quality “red alerts” and pronouncements on the city’s latest efforts to fight air pollution.
The Guardian • 21st March 2017Will China's children solve its crippling water shortage problem? China is home to 21% of the world’s population but just 7% of its freshwater. One NGO teaches young people to make tackling water scarcity a priority
The Guardian • 10th March 2017Chinese toy factories open summer camp for migrant workers' children The ICTI Care scheme aims to improve family lives of those making products for Disney, Mattel and Toys R Us.
The Guardian • 5th January 2017The pink yuan: how Chinese business is embracing the LGBT market While businesses in China are embracing the ‘pink economy’, their human resources policies aren’t embracing LGBT rights.
The Guardian • 24th June 2016Seeing double: is Hangzhou's new construction the Chinese twin towers? Hangzhou already boasts a copycat Eiffel Tower. But the firm behind the Zhejiang Gate Towers says any resemblance to New York’s World Trade Center is unintentional.
The Guardian • 27th April 2016China's anti-pollution tech is going premium, but it can't make dirty air go away Air purifying technology may be a sticking plaster for China’s pollution but is it better than nothing for the country’s chronic problem?
The Guardian • 2nd April 2016China’s zeal for steel casts long shadows at home and abroad Decades of overproduction were borne of hubris and an unchecked urge for self-sufficiency.
The Guardian • 5th February 2016China's hip-hop stars feel the heat of Chinese authorities' battle to control culture Grabbed, hooded, cuffed and caged - how China's 'most banned band' In3 fell foul of authorities.
The Guardian • 2nd December 2015The Beijing bar where the beer gets cheaper as the smog gets worse A look at the Beijing businesses turning the city’s heavy pollution to their advantage: from from bars offering air purifiers and cheap beer to companies selling ‘pollution fighting’ juices.
The Guardian • 16th September 2015Bathtub booze and knock-off whisky: inside China's fake alcohol industry No one knows how much of the legitimate alcohol industry in China is eaten into by fakery, but industry figures suggest it’s significant.
The Guardian • 20th October 2014Champagne and grit: the two sides of Shanghai’s club scene Show-off culture dominates clubland in China’s biggest city, but it has also helped fuel an underground scene railing against the bottle-popping beautiful people.