Hong Kong

People walk through a flooded shopping mall in the Heng Fa Chuen district during Super Typhoon Mangkhut in Hong Kong, China, on September 16th, 2018.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Chinese authorities reversed an earlier decision not to jail a young figurehead of the democracy movement, a decision that's only fueled more citizen unrest.

• By Massoud Hayoun

Protesters pay their respects outside the Chinese Liason Office of Hong Kong after the death of Chinese Noble laureate Liu Xiaobo, in Hong Kong on July 13th, 2017.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Talent has replaced the depletion of natural resources as the world's biggest crisis.

• By Jim Russell

The quality of demographics carries greater weight than the quantity, and the Pearl of the Orient, while dense, is aging rapidly.

• By Jim Russell

In unequal, poor, super-polluted places.

• By Ryan O'Hanlon