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  • LIFE

    A taste of art

    Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 25/04/2024

    » We were told from the beginning to not think of Street Food Theatre as performance art, but rather an "experience". We were also informed of the belief of the project's creator that art can take place everywhere.

  • WORLD

    How to run a fashion magazine in China

    Sunday Spotlight, Published on 19/03/2023

    » Two years ago, when Conde Nast announced that Margaret Zhang would be the next editor-in-chief of Vogue China, many in the fashion media were taken aback.

  • WORLD

    Embalming, the dying science

    Sunday Spotlight, Published on 20/11/2022

    » Walk down two flights of stairs at the back entrance of the James Hunt Funeral Home in Asbury Park, New Jersey, and you reach a white-walled, linoleum-floored, fluorescently lit room, a liminal space that provides the beginning of an answer to one of the oldest and most confounding questions of the human experience: What happens to us when we die?

  • WORLD

    When you can take it with you -- just

    Sunday Spotlight, Published on 13/03/2022

    » If you were leaving home forever and had just a few hours to collect your thoughts and most precious belongings, items that would have to fit into a knapsack or purse, or just your pockets, what would you choose?

  • BUSINESS

    Restoring respect

    Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 07/06/2021

    » Patama Chantaruck still remembers an unsettling encounter she experienced during her early days of living in the United States 28 years ago.

  • BUSINESS

    Asia's century, China's year

    Asia focus, Published on 30/12/2019

    » Way back when 1999 was winding down, pundits were telling us that the Asian Century was about to dawn. That prediction has not yet been fully realised, but few would disagree that 2019 belonged to China. Over the past 12 months, the top headlines have been about the bruising trade war with America, defiant protests in Hong Kong against Beijing's tightening grip, and the rise of a surveillance state that is herding hundreds of thousands into "re-education" camps on its western fringes. Below, the Asia Focus team looks back on a busy and sometimes troubling 2019.

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