Claims include Meghan Markle wanting to be posher than Posh Spice, Anna Wintour advising Victoria Beckham to have her breast implants removed … and then there was David Beckham’s Nazi ‘T-shirt’

Generative AI tools such as Midjourney and Dall-E have triggered a ‘complete rejection’ of the tech in the European comic-book industry, according to an executive at Tintin publisher Le Lombard.

Reading The Joy of Small Things, a compilation of newspaper columns on the small pleasures in daily life, changed Rebecca Ling’s life. The lawyer and founder of womenswear brand Parallel 51 explains how.

Through his book A Basic History of Ancient and Modern China, Hong Kong author Chui Chuen-shun aims to teach the millions of ethnically Chinese children in countries other than China about their roots.

People who identify as LGBTQ say they are facing increasing difficulties at work, ranging from being repeatedly misgendered to physically assaulted.

When Iranians need guidance about matters such as the suitability of a marriage prospect, they consult a fortune-teller who cites the wisdoms of 14th century poet Hafez, sometimes with the help of a bird.

In his book America’s Lost Chinese: The Rise and Fall of a Migrant Family Dream, Hugo Wong recounts how his forebears and fellow Chinese migrants in Mexico became a force in small business there.

Based on Lawrence Osborne’s 2014 novel of the same name, The Ballad of a Small Player stars Farrell as an English con man passing himself off as a lord as he stays holed up in Macau

As an art student, Hilarie Hon Hang-lam wanted to go against her professor’s wishes and paint for her final work. Reading Gabriel Garcia Márquez’s book convinced her to stick to her principles.

Trump also questions whether the pop star’s ‘liberal’ views are legitimate, while Swift has previously accused him of ‘racism’ and ‘white supremacy’, and said to ‘vote him out’

The second half of life is when you can live well because you have the experience from living the first half, Rhee Kun-hoo says – he has more to say in his book If You Live to 100, You Might as Well Be Happy.

Christine Ma-Kellams’ novel follows a K-pop idol who goes to the US, where he meets an older, married woman and stays with her family. The author explains why this is no ‘super boring and cliché’ romance.

The director of Oscar-nominated Robot Dreams, Pablo Berger, opens up about adapting his animated movie from a tear-jerking graphic novel, and why it’s too real to be a children’s film.

The death of Alexandra Chan’s father, a Chinese-American engineer for Kodak, so devastated her she began writing a memoir of him, and learned that her grief ran far deeper than the death of a parent.

Star Trek actor George Takei has a new picture book for children out about the three years he spent interned as a child during the second world war – for the crime of being a Japanese-American.

Leading the charity HandsOn Hong Kong was a scary prospect for Catherine Tong Dannaoui. The work of motivational speaker Simon Sinek inspired her to become the leader she always wanted to be.

A poetry reading in Afghanistan featured a male-only line-up, reading pro-Taliban verses; the government-organised event excluded female poets and banned women from attending.

Kairos, translated by Michael Hofmann, depicts the relationship between a student and an older writer in the days leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Ma, one of the country’s hottest fiction authors, combines thrilling plots with historical detail to create stories that are ‘both exciting and plausible’, winning acclaim as young people embrace cultural heritage and ‘China-chic’ trend.

Frederieke van Doorn, the founder and CEO of Hong Kong-based women’s tailoring brand Frey, explains how Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment changed her life.

Unassuming and modest despite her vast success and mastery of the form, the Booker-winning writer as ‘Canada’s Chekhov’ suffered from dementia in recent years.

New versions of old recipes for pineapple buns and Asian crullers, his own recipe for durian cake – Christopher Tan explains what got him started on cookbook NerdBaker 2: Tales from the Yeast Indies.

A children’s book, My Extra-Special Aunty, uses illustrations by Hong Kong domestic helpers from the Philippines to show the ‘meaningful connections’ helpers have with the families they work for.

In 1992, eight years after his first visit, China’s leader Deng Xiaoping returned to the rapidly growing Shenzhen special economic zone whose transformation he had orchestrated.

Seventy local buildings and urban spaces designed by Hong Kong architects are celebrated in Raymond Fung’s Untold Stories: Hong Kong Architecture, with a focus on public amenities.