Deborah O’Donoghue is a reporter at Travel Tomorrow. This British-Irish writer lived in the UK and France before moving to Belgium. She has travelled all over the world and worked in car body repairs, in the best fish ‘n’ chip shop in Brighton, and been a gopher in a comedy club, as well as a teacher. She’s a past winner of the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association Short Story Prize. Her début novel, Sea of Bones, was published by the UK's Legend Press in 2019 and Droemer Knaur Germany in 2021.
One of China’s three major air carriers, China Southern Airlines, has announced plans for 17 more international routes with a fanfare as it launched its first […]
China’s development of a vast train network across Southeast Asia continues. Projects in Laos, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia could eventually lead to a 3,000-kilometre-plus bullet and […]
The first “Chinese-made” aircraft intended for commercial passenger flights has made an appearance at the Singapore Airshow, re-sparking questions over the plane’s potential to compete with […]
In the pursuit of kickstarting the return of international tourists, after being one of the latest countries to lift travel restrictions, China has been rolling out […]
Chinese researchers have developed a way of turning photographs into lifelike videos. The new AI tool, EMO, or Emote Portrait Alive, can animate a single static […]
With a surface of 9.6 million square kilometres and a population of over a million inhabitants, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the Chinese food scene […]
Following stricter and longer Covid-related travel restrictions, Chinese citizens have taken longer to return to their pre-pandemic travel habits. Destinations once busting with groups of Chinese […]
Chinese tourists have provided a much-needed boost to tourism figures across Southeast Asia and in other parts of the world, according to various sources scrutinising the […]
The Year of the Dragon started on 10 February, kicking off the 15-day Chinese holiday called Spring Festival. However, with preparations starting ahead of the New […]
Based on a lunisolar calendar, the Chinese New Year differentiates from other Lunar New Years, as it takes into account both the Earth’s rotation around the […]
China has discovered its largest lithium deposit to date. Estimated to hold about 1 million tonnes of the critical mineral, the reserve is located in the […]
Airbus is trumpeting the launch of its new “lifecycle services” centre in Chengdu, China. In this latest example of another high-level infrastructure collaboration between the Chinese […]
Boeing 737 Maxs have not had the best reputation over the past few years, culminating with the recent Alaska Airlines mid-flight blow-out of a plug-in door. […]
Swiss and Irish nationals are the latest to be granted visa-free entry to China for short term visits in an increasing string of visa facilitation and […]