Asian attitudes to acceptance of non-conformist couples are quietly changing.
In three places, same-sex marriage is allowed.
Bars and nightlife districts where gay people can meet are now found in many cities in China.
And in Hong Kong, the courts have been tentatively positive about legal recognition, particularly in one recent case.…
ARCHAEOLOGISTS FOUND wooden business cards 18 centuries old, it was revealed this week. Searching in ruins and abandoned wells in Chenzhou, Hunan province, they located nearly 10,000 thin wooden strips.
These would have been ordinary throwaway documents at the time they were written—but today provide a priceless window into how people lived 1,800 years ago,…
CHINA CAME FROM nowhere to become a leader in cash-free purchasing, a top London professor said this week.
It is now on track to becoming the world's top country for cash-free transactions, said Kent Matthews, professor of banking and finance at Cardiff University.
In China, the proportion of the total amount of money in circulation…
INDIA HAS AN ECONOMY that is growing faster than China’s – six per cent versus four per cent - and it has a population that is expanding while that of its Asian neighbor is shrinking.
Put these two facts together, and the implication is that India will surpass China in any race to become the…
FOR SEVERAL DECADES NOW, the Chinese art of feng shui has been recognized worldwide as a valuable tool in the design of everything from workplaces to homes. Feng shui is an ancient system focusing on placement of objects and the layout of buildings with the aim of creating positive effects on the humans using such…
THE US BAN on provision of powerful computer chip equipment to China is not really aimed at the Chinese military, a top defence expert revealed. It is an attack on the development of China.
Only a fraction of one per cent of the chips are used by the People’s Liberation Army, said Jon Bateman, a…
OVER SEVERAL THOUSAND years of history, China never occupied, colonized or invaded other countries, top Hong Kong historian Lau Chi-pang said in a recent talk.
The country is focused on its own affairs and dislike of war is deeply set in its culture, said Professor Lau, a Lingnan University academic, and a member of Hong…
No jurisdiction has managed a flawless COVID response, says Richard Cullen. But China, despite its imperfect COVID management experience, did better than any other major jurisdiction and, in fact, displayed many examples of early-best-practice unseen elsewhere. Exasperatingly, the West found, yet again, that it there is much it can learn from China - and then,…
A FORMER BBC reporter tried to politicize the tragic recent fire in Beijing by claiming that it was being covered up – there was no press coverage or videos or chat posts, Vivian Wu announced on Twitter.
Except people in China are quite smart now.
They quickly found lots of references to the fire in…
Ambitious people worldwide from business folk to army generals make use of The Art of War, an ancient Chinese book written more than two millennia ago. Who was author Sun Tzu? Emily Zhou looks at the man behind the myth.
IT WAS ONE OF the most turbulent periods in Chinese history. Nearly every day, people…