On a whistle-stop tour of Silicon Valley, some of Hong Kong's most promising young entrepreneurs learn the risks and rewards of chasing their start-up dream. Words and pictures by Jo Baker.

The founder of an Ayurveda retreat in India talks to Jo Baker about using the ancient practice to nourish both body and soul.

Staging Hong Kong's biggest annual music and arts festival is no walk in the park. Jo Baker meets a team of dedicated, determined and quite possibly exhausted organisers ahead of this year's event.

With his latest book, master storyteller Frederick Forsyth is back doing what he does best, writes Jo Baker.

The air was dark and tinged with cool, old trees struck dramatic poses against the night sky and below them a near- naked elderly man waxed lyrical about the stars. “This is a good place,” he says, a blue towel twisted jauntily around his head...

Forty years after his death, two of Bruce Lee's siblings reminisce about their famous brother's life and a legacy that is inspiring a whole new generation of fighters. Jo Baker reports.

A line of Australia’s finest polo ponies fidget unhappily in the stalls, one picking moodily at the stable planks with his well-bred teeth. china is in the throes of its worst winter in 50 years, and it’s not only people that are suffering.

If you’re a fool for the leafy, romantic streets of Hanoi, the faded colonial architecture of Phnom Penh or Hoi An and the religious drama of Chiang Mai’s old wats, you’ll be equally besotted by this lesser known cultural cache.

Writer and popular philosopher Alain de Botton is on a mission to leave pastiche architecture in the dust.

The international actress on her art and advocacy

Singaporean writer, researcher & LGBT activist in his own words

With its traditional craft culture, bohemian cafes and misty valley vistas, Ubud in Bali seems custom-made for its twin industries of art and tourism: travellers here have been feeling the pull of poetry and drama for decades.

"Make yourself at home" may be a refrain heard in guesthouses the world over, but it takes on new meaning when it comes from one...

There's an overgrown, slightly wild feeling to Shenzhen's OCT-Loft, where cracked red courtyard tiles meet weathered steel, and bamboo stalks sprout haphazardly skywards.

Building a good winery hasn't always called for the touch of an architectural megastar, but label owners have long had a soft spot for a good designer to flourish. In Bordeaux, back when no tourist in their right mind would consider just 'stopping

Whether you're heading east for business or pleasure, here's what you need to know to feel at home

Wong Chuk Hang Road is an unrelenting strip of smog-stained glass and empty industrial buildings, most decorated with hopeful 'for sale' signs in bright colours. Yet for part-time property developer Chris Dillon the place has real potential.

The cells are small, the metal grilles rusted and the tiny snatches of sky are depressingly blurred, yet these once-feared spaces in the former Central Police Station compound are now being redeemed as the home of an exhibition that explores the…

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