I've launched digital publishing platforms around the world, I write/edit opinion pieces, features and news, I fight for my right to read decent pitches and I travel to get away from all of this.
'Evil spirits': The truth about Chinese New Year
I didn't just lose my CNY cherry last year; it was ripped out of me, the flesh devoured and the stone spat back in my face.
I wanted to enjoy it. I wanted to fall in love and snuggle up and giggle childishly -- like all first times should be.
Instead I was shocked, slightly abashed and in just enough pain to hope I didn't have to do it again soon.
CNY was, as far as I understood, an annual get together for families and loved ones to enjoy each other's company.
So when my then girlfriend (now ...
Confessions of a male spa virgin
It's painful, it's ticklish and it's my first time as a man spa guinea pig.
Airline recruits women to save fuel
An Indian airline has hit on possibly the worthiest excuse yet for hiring slim women as cabin crew -- it saves fuel and therefore money.
Opinion: Photography has ruined travel
Our obsession with capturing every experience through our cameras is sabotaging our memories, not enhancing them.
'Evil spirits': The truth about Chinese New Year
My alcoholically extreme trip to meet my in-laws for the first time.
Why the 'white tax' is perfectly acceptable
If there’s one thing guaranteed to get a white, middle-class expat coughing up phlegmy globs of vitriol in his adopted home, it’s the issue of dual pricing.
Top 100 wines of Chile 2019
With nine wines in our global list of Top 100 Wines of 2019 (three times as many as it had in our 2018 list), Chile was represented more times than Germany, New Zealand, Spain and Portugal.
Hong Kong’s hidden youth: societal pressure driving city’s young into apathy and reclusiveness
The hikikomori trend is widely known in Japan, but receives little attention in Hong Kong, where up to 2 per cent of the population may be withdrawn
Hong Kong Now Has Its Own 'Hikikomori' Problem Where Young People Are Shutting the Door on Society
Why some people are trying to disappear in one of the world's most-densely populated cities.
Dissident novelist’s close call casts a shadow on Hong Kong's once-vibrant cultural scene
Attempts to block a controversial Chinese novelist from speaking at the Hong Kong International Literary Festival last weekend raised fears about the future of artistic expression in Hong Kong.
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8 Indian sights to see as soon as possible
From the world’s oldest city to luxurious hotel splendour – enjoying a trip won’t get much easier than this. By JAMES DURSTON
Hacking into the future of flying
Over one sleep-minimised weekend, developers encoded our flying futures. JAMES DURSTON reports from Cathay Pacific’s 24-hour ‘Hackathon’
How to survive a Hong Kong foot massage
They may not all be deluxe spa experiences, but they’re certainly cheerful: we step inside the wonderful, stimulating and aromatic world of Hong Kong foot massages
The highs and lows of nostalgic travel
Trips into history are on the rise, but sometimes the past just wants to be left alone