She’s leaving home: the women who left North Korea
There is something unsettling about the western media’s fascination with North Korea, as these two books reveal.
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George Osborne praised by Chinese state media for keeping quiet on human rights
It comes as the Dalai Lama condemned David Cameron’s money-focused approach to China.
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How the festival of Holi has become a textbook case of cultural appropriation for profit
This weekend, revellers will pay £43 to throw coloured powder paint around, but with little understanding of Holi’s religious or social…
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Hong Kong’s new feminist wave
Hong Kong has long been home to sexism and inequality with little protest. But things are starting to change.
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The Far East prisoners of war who remember ’42
The POWs arrived on Japan’s snow-covered northern island of Hokkaido wearing their ragged tropical uniforms of shorts and thin shirts.
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki: the single greatest acts of terrorism in human history?
Surely 70 years is long enough for us to put to rest the tired canard of the atomic bombings on…
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Could a Ukraine-style crisis happen in Kazakhstan?
The Kazakh government has a delicate balancing act between Russia and China, says David Clark.
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Why Bollywood is making a movie about open defecation
One in two people in India defecate in the open, but the solution isn’t as simple as just building more…
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