Menu

society

Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Alan Mak
Sep 06,2017, 5:21
Data shows Hongkongers’ dislike for mainland government, people
By Asia Times staff
Customers take pictures of cups of tea named in the fashion of the Sang subculture at the Sung Tea shop in Beijing, August 24, 2017. The tea creations are named "You are the Fattest" and "You don't have nothing, you have a disease". Photo: Reuters / Thomas Peter
Sep 05,2017, 12:16
Meet the despondent Chinese millennials binging on ‘mental opium’
By Yawen Chen and Tony Munroe
People look at their smartphones while waiting for a train at a BTS station in Bangkok. Photo: AFP / Nicolas Asfouri
Aug 27,2017, 12:57
How free is the internet? Ooniprobe knows
By Maria Xynou
Photo courtesy of No Food Waste
Jul 29,2017, 12:01
Feeding India’s hungry? There’s an app for that
By Anusha Venkat
Photo: iStock / Getty
Jul 28,2017, 1:57
Don’t expect action against village that ordered ‘revenge rape’
By F.M. Shakil
Paying off a 30-year mortgage on a median-price home in Hong Kong would cost a median-income buyer more than half of his or her income. Photo: AFP / Philippe
Jul 22,2017, 4:06
Why do cities become unaffordable?
By Robert J Shiller
Philip Morris International CEO Andre Calantzopoulos has been an 'IQOS' user "since the first prototype" landed on his desk
Jul 17,2017
Asia, nicotine and new fronts in the future of ‘smoking’
By Kenny Hodgart
A night view of a cruise ship in Victoria Harbor. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
Jun 30,2017, 6:31
Nine graphs that show how Hong Kong has changed since 1997
By Liu Hsiu Wen
Asia Times meets Professor Mauro Guillén, director of The Lauder Institute at Wharton. Photo: Asia Times/Lin Wanxia
Jun 30,2017, 12:18
Podcast: Women hold the secret recipe to wealth in 2030
By Steve Wang and Lin Wanxia
A peace poetry gathering in Khyber Pakhtunkwa. Photo: Wehmi Aurakzai
Jun 25,2017, 11:27
Peace poetry: a burgeoning movement in Pakistan’s KP province
By Hizbullah Khan
Ritu is one of the chefs at Sheroes Hangout in Agra. Photo courtesy of Sheroes Hangouts
Jun 24,2017, 7:00
Sorrow and survival: Indian acid victims assert their dignity
By Anusha Venkat
Young Pioneers stand honor guard at the Monument to the People's Heroes in Tiananmen Square, Beijing. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
Jun 20,2017, 12:44
China’s Young Pioneers ‘reform’ is about ideological control
By Zi Yang
Maria Cordero (right) is a famous cook show host and singer. Photo: Maria Cordero@Facebook
Jun 01,2017, 5:32
TV show host Maria Cordero reveals struggles with domestic violence
By Asia Times staff
Disruptive technologies like VR are here to stay. But what effect will they have on society? Photo: Reuters/Eric Gaillard
Jun 01,2017
Four technologies will shape the creative economy – for better or worse
By Stefan Hall and Ryo Takahashi
A supporter holds a rainbow umbrella during a rally ahead of Taiwan's top court ruling on a same-sex marriage case which will decide whether it will become the first place in Asia to recognise same-sex marriage, in Taipei, Taiwan. Photo: Reuters/Tyrone Siu
May 24,2017, 6:07
First in Asia: Taiwan recognizes same-sex marriage
By Liu Hsiu Wen and Agence France-Presse
Mixed USA and China flag. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
May 24,2017, 1:14
Rising distrust between Americans and Chinese: survey
By Doug Tsuruoka
Shun Tin Estate, Kwun Tong. Photo: Google Maps
May 23,2017, 6:31
Man threatens to cut his own throat at sons’ kindergarten
By Asia Times staff
Nina L Khrushcheva
May 23,2017, 5:26
Moscow’s housing estates erupt
By Nina L Khrushcheva
Photo: publicdomainpictures.net
May 23,2017, 1:06
The miserable case of the unhappiness surge in Japan
By Japan Times
Photo: AFP / Loic Venance
May 23,2017, 1:00
Get ready for the next big privacy backlash against Facebook
By Wired
© 2018 Asia Times Holdings Limited, All Rights Reserved.
Concept, design & development by
Powered by