Presided over by the iconic Table Mountain, Cape Town is a city with a back garden of the wild, wonderful, and jaw-droppingly scenic Great Outdoors. Shake your mane, stretch your claws, and get ready to roar – your South African adventure begins with our new nonstop flight.

Dip your toes into the waters of Jinan – the scenic Shandong province capital so famed for its bubbling springs, weeping willows, and colourful valleys that it has been praised by emperors and immortalised in poetry.

Brussels, Copenhagen, and Dublin – three popular European capitals of beer, culture, and delight – will each be a direct flight away from Hong Kong, starting in 2018.

John Ovans is trying every job in Shanghai. This month: dog carer.

John Ovans tries every job in Shanghai. This month: Peking opera singer.

I’m addicted to my smartphone. Admit it, you are too. You're probably reading this on one, for example, and if you're not, it's probably out on the table, next to your laptop, waiting in the wings as a trusty back-up in case you get bored reading this article. I‘m staging an intervention, though, with your best interests in mind.

A crop of Swiss-style finishing schools are teaching 'Western etiquette' to wealthy Chinese – why?

I round up some of the best theme parks in and around Shanghai – including the iconic Hello Kitty World in Zhejiang province.

Following Shanghai's riotous Annual Drag Queen Competition, I investigate the city's fledgling drag scene.

Without a doubt, one of the uniquely surreal highlights of living in Shanghai is the daily afternoon sight of the city’s senior citizens tearing up the public parks with quicksteps and foxtrots.

LivingSocial partnered with Seatwave to promote the Girls Aloud tour, marketed to millions of our email subscribers through our ecommerce platform.

One of LivingSocial's many kooky product partners, Emyub was a vendor of hair chalk – so naturally, I gave the copy a mermaid theme.