Long Reads

Apps such as Cece that offer tarot reading, fortunetelling and astrology are part of an online mysticism market worth US$14 billion a year. Beijing is cracking down, but they continue to target young people.

Hong Kong fashion designer Barney Cheng tells Kate Whitehead about growing up in a huge family, getting culture shock in a Canadian Christian school, and rubbing shoulders with the fabulously rich.

The Khmer Magic Music Bus takes masters of traditional Cambodian instruments and songs to help reconnect locals with their national identity and heal a land still recovering from genocide.

Nicholas Bonner, co-founder of North Korea travel firm Koryo Tours, who helped Michael Palin into the country to film a documentary, tells the Post how to get the most out of a visit to the secretive state.

In 2000, not a single woman from the Asia-Pacific countries served in UN peacekeeping forces. That has changed dramatically, with women from across the region pursuing careers thousands of kilometres from home and family.

West Berlin’s affluent Kantstrasse, home to a community of Chinese students since the late 19th century, has evolved into the German capital’s hotspot for all things East Asian, above all food.

Illegal gangs in South Africa mining chromium, a component in stainless steel production, to meet Chinese demand for the metal leave behind a scarred land and divided villages.

Boat builder and explorer Pierre Sauvadet talks about discovering a passion for adventure as a child, what draws him to the Arctic and why he feels at home in his Hong Kong ‘village’.

China has not become the global No 1 in chess by accident. It’s taken dedication, decades of planning, and help from neighbours. Its meaning extends beyond the sport, a leading figure in chess says.

In 1971, at the height of the Cultural Revolution, Beijing sent a film of Chinese ballet The Red Detachment of Women to the Venice International Film Festival, from where it became a hit with Western movie-goers.

Phuong Canh Ngo has spent 25 years in an Australian prison for the assassination of political rival John Newman. But was the Vietnamese-born politician dealt a bad hand? Post Magazine investigates.

Conditions in China are forcing many middle-class Chinese to risk a treacherous jungle-strewn path from Ecuador to Mexico and the US for a chance to live the American dream.

When Chris Hall’s mother said ‘buy property’, he didn’t argue but bought Chinese robes too, and his Hong Kong home houses a world-class collection. He talks about a childhood spent continent-hopping.

Mpox cases are rising in China, but irregular case reporting, a reluctance to use foreign vaccines, social bias against the LGBTQ community – blamed for its spread – and a lack of funding impede containment efforts.

Belinda Esterhammer, the Asia CEO for social impact platform The DO, talks about growing up Asian in a small Austrian village, tackling sexism in the workplace and her passion for empowering women and girls.

Former teacher turned Nigeria-based hotelier Hu Jieguo was the first of a growing number of Chinese awarded chieftaincy in Africa. We investigate how much power they actually have.

Quantum computing will change the world as we know it, but more breakthroughs are needed before we see the hugely powerful processors become an everyday reality, say quantum physicists.