Read our writers’ takes on the film that mattered most last year, the Emilia Pérez controversy, and more.

Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra on Sunday apologised for the expiration of the Tak Bai case with a failure to bring the perpetrators to justice, saying that people should solve the problem ...

When the American writer Derek Sandhaus arrived in Shanghai in 2006, he soon encountered Chinese baijiu — a fiery and powerful liquor found at dining room tables and bars across the country. He didn’t ...

Reporter Wen Yi Fan (Zhang Ruonan) visits Jia Ban, a bar owned in part by Sang Yan (Bai Jing Ting), her high school deskmate and someone she loved in the past. There, she plans to meet her best friend ...