Isabel Hilton

Politics

Only westerners can afford to be ill

• 17 January 2000

Pharmaceutical companies want to keep exclusive patents that force the price of medicines beyond the reach of the third world poor, reports Isabel Hilton

Politics

The sect that scares China's leaders

• 06 September 1999

Falun Gong has 100 million members. Has the Communist Party, with 60 million, at last met its match?

As Chilean television shows the verdict, Sonia weeps with relief: someone finally is saying "no" to Pinochet

• 27 November 1998