Hong Kong, Asia’s financial heart—a city of skyscrapers and tycoons, real-estate cartels and matchbox housing—doesn’t stop ever, simply because, as…
In post-socialist China, with socialism and forced gender parity a thing of the past, out in the open are cases…
Recently, Ivanka Trump’s daughter Arabella Kushner reciting a Mandarin song became wildly popular on YouTube, seemingly in tune with the…
A recent tongue-in-cheek video circulating in China is an imagined future of Beijingers, a response to the notorious smog decried…
President Rodrigo Duterte, rattled by criticism over extra-judicial killings in the war on drugs, questions American moralising and ambivalence in…
It was the Cold War situation of the 1940s and 1950s that necessitated American bases, which buoyed the Filipino coffers.…
Ma is widely regarded as a global “game changer”. He is the second richest in China, the eighth richest among…
The imbroglio in South China Sea is a sign of the changed equation in Asia, where China, not Japan, is…
Earlier this year, I traveled a few hours north-east of Beijing. Here, the distance between Beijing (municipality) and the coal-belt…
Though capitalism and socialism make strange bedfellows, it is less known that the largest backer of Disneyland is the Communist…
The image of the invincible Chinese dragon has now and then taken beatings. Consider the visit of the Chinese President…
The massive shift from equality and egalitarianism to income inequality and unemployment considerably gnaw the heart of “Zhongguo Meng”—the “China…
The ambitious global highway starts to become a reality, even as some geopolitical hurdles remain
While President Xi Jinping has set out to fashion the China Dream of a moderately prosperous society by 2020, “disappearances”…
A rare comparison between India and China in the same breath, this anthology of essays on media is a welcome…
LET ME begin with this lesser-known realm of China, which lies west of the country’s magnificent coastal cities that we…
The story of China’s well-known blind activist Chen Guangcheng reveals a lot, and leaves a lot unanswered
There’s a long road ahead for Xi Jinping, who has concentrated power within himself in an unprecedented manner
