Hong Kong — Meet the Oyangs, Artists of the Afterworld. Oyang Ping Chi, (left) son of Oyang Wai Kin (right), has dragged the ancient Chinese art of creating paper offerings for the dead into the 21st century, building on a business his father established more than a half-century ago. Burning...

Hong Kong – Loneliness can be deadly for senior citizens. Sylvia Tai, Rebecca Valli and Monami Yui report on peer support programmes in Hong Kong that make a difference.

Hong Kong — “I made only 20 cups a day when I started the business. But now I sell up to 150 cups a day,” Johnson Ko, the owner of Coco Espresso, said. “I’ve seen rapidly increasing numbers of coffee drinkers in Hong Kong.” Ko is one of a number of young entrepreneurs to have embraced...

Hong Kong – It’s been credited with saving an historic neighbourhood from rapacious property development; now it’s heralded as a catalyst for resurrecting Hong Kong’s once booming film industry.

Hong Kong – “Without visiting this garden,” a beautiful woman resplendent in a Ming Dynasty robe, sings. “How could I ever have realized this splendour of spring?” Her walk is graceful; the words she sings are poetic. Although she is on a bare stage with little scenery, her voice and gestures...

Hong Kong — No two shows are the same for the London-based ensemble of performers, Showstopper. Improv (short for improvisation) and audience participation make sure of that. View extracts from their unique show on Tuesday, April 13 –  plus interviews with the actors — and view the...

Hong Kong — In Hong Kong director Ann Hui’s award winning movie Ordinary Heroes, a movie about Hong Kong’s social movements in the 1970s and 1980s, one memorable character is a Cantonese-speaking Italian priest. Franco Mella He participates in almost every major social movement to fight...

Hong Kong – It was nine o’clock on a Thursday night in a church in Hong Kong. A choir of 20 was rehearsing a Mandarin pop song on the stage, a song written for Sunday’s worship. But they hadn’t quite mastered it. It is not always easy for Cantonese-speaking Hong Kongers from the south of...

Hong Kong — Like many people who grew up in post-World War II Hong Kong, Christine Loh came from a family whose relatives were divided politically. Some supported the Communist Party of China (CCP); others espoused the Nationalist cause. For the majority of ordinary Hong Kong people, political...

Hong Kong – Drug use is on the rise in Hong Kong, with ketamine the substance of choice among youngsters — many under the age of 16.