China
Lipsticks engraved with ancient stories and eyeshadow palettes embossed like denim: why you're about to see C-beauty everywhere
K-beauty and J-beauty and finally making way for their rebellious sibling…
By Anita Bhagwandas
Places To Stay
The best hotels in Asia: 2023 Readers’ Choice Awards
The best hotels and resorts in Asia in 2023, as voted for by you in this year's Readers' Choice Awards. For hotels recommended by the editors of Condé Nast Traveller, see our edit of the best hotels in Asia
By Condé Nast Traveller
You can now eat a Michelin-starred dinner on a flight
Hong Kong-based airline Cathay Pacific is serving passengers Michelin-worthy meals high above the clouds
By Zahra Surya Darma
Can I travel to China? Travel rules from the UK explained
Here's what you need to know about the rules for travelling to China
By Connor Sturges
8 breathtaking fashion show locations you can actually visit
These iconic fashion houses know how to transform the streets into a runway
By Sarah Leigh Bannerman
A local's guide to Shanghai, China
Chef DeAille Tam on what all travellers should look out for in Shanghai
By Jing Yang
Style & Culture
Best-selling writer Jung Chang on the pull of her hometown
The pre-eminent biographer of modern China, who wrote generation-spanning 'Wild Swans', on her hometown
By Jung Chang
Destinations
Hong Kong has Coronavirus under control: this is what life is like
With lessons learnt from the SARS outbreak almost two decades ago, strict measures taken in Hong Kong to battle Covid-19 have so far allowed the city to avoid total lockdown. It’s a fragile, and somewhat selective, freedom, but in many ways life seems to have found its rhythm within the restrictions
By Emma Russell
Destinations
What it's like coming out of coronavirus lockdown in China
Food writer and founder of symmetrybreakfast, Michael, tells Condé Nast Traveller what it's like living in Shanghai as China comes out of coronavirus lockdown
By Michael
Style & Culture
Where was every single Star Wars filmed?
Starting in a galaxy a long time ago – well, 1977 – the biggest movie series ever reaches its conclusion with The Rise of Skywalker. As the series is now available to stream from home on Disney Plus, we pick some of the best locations in the solar system from all nine films – from Jordan and Tunisia to Ireland and Croatia
By James Medd
Inspiration
Breathing Space: biophilic architecture
Cities are embracing nature like never before, with the architects of Changi Airport in Singapore and Amazon HQ in Seattle incorporating manmade waterfalls and rainforests into their buildings for visitors and employees to enjoy
By Toby Skinner
Condé Nast Traveller Partnership
10 ways to experience Hangzhou, China
Sitting on the tranquil West Lake, Hangzhou is China's imperial city of poetry, also home to avant-garde art and web giants. Here's how to get the best out Marco Polo's favourite Chinese metropolis
Places To Stay
The 7 Coolest Underwater Hotels in the World
These rooms offer up views you'd usually only find with a snorkeling mask on
By Caitlin Morton
Places To Stay
Rosewood Hong Kong review: First In
A swish new opening for Hong Kong's glittery jet set has landed on the city's harbour. We were first in
By Peter Jon Lindberg
Places To Stay
Bulgari Hotel Shanghai hotel review
Contemporary Art Deco hotel from the Italian label that’s as electrifying as the city itself – with a rooftop bar for dizzying views
By Steve King
Style & Culture
Chef’s World Series with China Tang and Air China
Our first Chef’s World Series event for 2019 took place at China Tang, which serves the finest Cantonese food outside Asia
By Lucrezia Worthington
City Breaks
A portrait of Shanghai
Shanghai is a neon-lit mash-up of old and new, a blade runner boom town where futuristic towers loom over Victorian gothic landmarks in a country that has built more skyscrapers than any other every year for almost a decade
By Steve King
Places To Stay
Shanghai Wonderland review: First In
Underlining China's penchant for experimental architecture is a new hotel that is semi-submerged and entirely brilliant
By Steve King