Sweden is investigating its ambassador to China after she was accused of orchestrating a bizarre series of meetings between the daughter of a Swedish bookseller jailed in China and businessmen who said they could help secure his release. The story i...
For over two decades photographer Peter Steinhauer documented the bamboo scaffolding and bright, tightly wrapped shapes of Hong Kong’s construction sites. His collection, Cocoons, is available from Powerhouse Peter Steinhauer Main image: Cherry Str...
Kenny Li is waiting patiently at a coach terminus in Kowloon on a misty and cold Hong Kong morning. He is planning to have lunch in the Chinese city of Zhuhai, which on a normal day would take him about four hours to reach by road. But today the jou...
After months of high-level condemnation, the government has banned the Hong Kong National party on the grounds that its pro-independence stance poses a threat to national security. It is the first time a political organisation has been outlawed in t...
Trying to walking through the pedestrian zone of Sai Yeung Choi Street South, walkers were always shoulder-to-shoulder, bumping into every other passing person. There was simply no way to avoid fellow pedestrians. Hong Kong’s Mong Kok area – “busy c...
Almost 100 people have been presumed dead after a landslide caused by Typhoon Mangkhut enveloped a small mining town in the Philippines and buried homes and a miners’ bunkhouse where dozens of people had taken shelter. The landslide struck the remot...
Typhoon Mangkhut has battered the heavily populated Guangdong region with 100mph winds, after skirting 62 miles from Hong Kong. It smashed windows in the city and tore off parts of buildings and roofs, while hotels and restaurants were hit by flash...
It has been 15 years since an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) in Hong Kong killed 299 people and infected 1,755. The wildfire spread of the deadly virus through densely packed housing estates stunned the city’s health authoritie...
Collecting Laundry Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze’s Concrete Stories captures life in the old apartment buildings of Kowloon, Hong Kong – where the rooftop often remains unlocked and accessible to all inhabitants. It shows residents making use of all avail...
Miss Wong, 65, scavenges the streets of Hong Kong’s Sheung Shui area in search of disused cardboard to sell to local recycling plants. She starts her day at 7am and often works until 9pm, seven days a week. For her efforts, she receives about HK$41...