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 — China’s online game industry is booming, with “Massively Multi-player Online Role-Playing Games” (MMORPG) becoming increasingly popular among a large portion of China’s estimated 400 million internet users.

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 – It took an award-winning film to swing the balance and save a colonial-era terrace (right) — a rare victory for Hong Kong’s increasingly vocal heritage preservation lobby.

HONG KONG – The Fair Trade movement may be small in Hong Kong but it is beginning to take off, said Anne McCaig, a leading activist in the movement to help small farmers in the third world. McCaig (pictured right) is CEO of Cafédirect, a company co-founded by the British charity, Oxfam, and other...

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...

Beijing / Hong Kong – One Country, Two Styles. Fireworks are once again key to welcoming in the Lunar New Year. In Hong Kong, tens of thousands gathered peaceably to watch a high-tech pyrotechnic display set to music light up its famous harbour. In the capital, Beiing, things were a little more...