Lunar New Year 2012: Family Matters – Comedy, Feasting and Mahjong

Lunar New Year 2012: Family Matters – Comedy, Feasting and Mahjong

Hong Kong — For Twinko Li and her family, the Lunar New Year in Hong Kong means feasting, visiting...
Lunar New Year 2012 – Fortune-Tellers Prosper As Festivities Approach

Lunar New Year 2012 – Fortune-Tellers Prosper As Festivities Approach

Hong Kong — In the lead-up to the Lunar New Year, it is a common practice in the city to consult...
Lunar New Year 2012: Six Signs That It’s Lunar New Year’s Day in Hong Kong

Lunar New Year 2012: Six Signs That It’s Lunar New Year’s Day in Hong Kong

Hong Kong — There’s no mistaking the occasion. The streets are quiet. Flower trucks abound....
Lunar New Year 2012: Noodles and a Phone Call – The Loneliness of the Late Train Home

Lunar New Year 2012: Noodles and a Phone Call – The Loneliness of the Late Train Home

Beijing — Hailed as the largest annual human migration in the world, this year’s Chunyun...

Lunar New Year 2012: Family Matters – Comedy, Feasting and Mahjong

Lunar New Year — February 28, 2012 at 11:43 pm
Hong Kong — For Twinko Li and her family, the Lunar New Year in Hong Kong means feasting, visiting relatives and taking in a slapstick festive film. The Li family is not unusual. The Lunar New Year is by far the biggest festival in the calendar and it is a rare Hong Kong family that does not mark the occasion in style — observing age-old rites and obligations — and enjoying some more recent...

read more

Lifestyle Vox

Lunar New Year 2012: Rent Hikes, Cold Snap Spell Woe for Seasonal Flower Vendors

Lunar New Year 2012: Rent Hikes, Cold Snap Spell Woe for Seasonal Flower Vendors
Hong Kong — The four days leading up to the Lunar New Year holiday are make or break for flower vendor Ng Donoan. That’s...
Feb 5, 2012 23:35

Lifestyle Vox

Lunar New Year 2012: Indian Chinese Celebrate Their Heritage

Lunar New Year 2012: Indian Chinese Celebrate Their Heritage
Delhi — While Delhi prepared to celebrate India’s Republic Day this January, a small community in the capital...
Feb 5, 2012 23:08

Lifestyle Vox

Lunar New Year 2012: Ancient Rites Dominate at Zhenjiang’s Jinshan Temple

Lunar New Year 2012: Ancient Rites Dominate at Zhenjiang’s Jinshan Temple
Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province — Lunar New Year is not only about food, fireworks and family gatherings. Worship plays an...
Feb 5, 2012 23:01

Lifestyle Vox

Lunar New Year 2012: Decorating Osaka during the Lunar New Year

Osaka, Japan — Gearing up for the Lunar New Year in Japan: var flashvars19 = {}; flashvars19.galleryURL = "http://www.vox-asia.com/news/wp-content/uploads/19.xml"; simpleviewer.ready(function...
Feb 5, 2012 22:56

Lunar New Year 2012: Celebrating the Lunar New Year in Suzhou

#gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; }
February 5th, 2012 | Lunar New Year | Read More

Lunar New Year 2012: Lantern Festival Concludes New Year Celebrations in Hong Kong

Lunar New Year 2012: Lantern Festival Concludes New Year Celebrations in Hong Kong
Hong Kong – Crowds thronged to the Hong Kong waterfront for the farewell festivities marking the end of the 15- day Lunar New Year celebrations where they marvelled at a show featuring folk performances from across China.   Throat-singers from Inner Mongolia kicked off the event on February...
February 4th, 2012 | Lunar New Year | Read More

Storied Malaysian Recipes Cross the Seas to Delight HK Elites

Storied Malaysian Recipes Cross the Seas to Delight HK Elites
Kuala Lumpur — Hidden in a corner of the city, surrounded by age-old shop houses and two-story townhouses, lies a modest,  authentic Malaysian eatery that has unlikely ties with an exclusive private club in Hong Kong.
May 23rd, 2011 | Business Vox, Food Vox, Malaysia Vox | Read More

Australian Pair Glory in Roasting Coffee for Hong Kong

Australian Pair Glory in Roasting Coffee for Hong Kong
HONG KONG — Nutty, with a vanilla-caramel undertone. Cherry aroma and a chocolaty finish. These taste profiles are used to describe the coffee sold by Glory Coffee, but they don’t seem to fit the burlap sacks of odorless, straw-colored beans sitting on the roasting warehouse floor.
May 23rd, 2011 | Business Vox, Food Vox | Read More

Screenwriter Aims to Change HK Film Casting From Inside

Screenwriter Aims to Change HK Film Casting From Inside
HONG KONG — The screenwriter of last year’s unconventional Cantonese flick “All About Love” doesn’t have a lot of love for Hong Kong’s movie casting process.
May 23rd, 2011 | Arts Vox, Business Vox | Read More

A Superheroic Effort To Bring Comic Books To Your iPhone

A Superheroic Effort To Bring Comic Books To Your iPhone
HONG KONG — Casey Lau got his first 3G iPhone in 2008. It was about that moment he decided to start Crispy Entertainment.
May 20th, 2011 | Arts Vox, Business Vox | Read More

Blackpaper Magazine: One Page, One Dollar, 160,000 Copies

Blackpaper Magazine: One Page, One Dollar, 160,000 Copies
Hong Kong – As cheap as one Hong Kong dollar, as thin as one piece of paper, Blackpaper stands out among the other publications on sale at 7-Eleven convenience stores in Hong Kong.
May 20th, 2011 | Arts Vox, Business Vox | Read More

A Gym So Exclusive It Won’t Let You – Or Anyone – Join

A Gym So Exclusive It Won’t Let You – Or Anyone – Join
Hong Kong – Optimum Performance Studio might look like any other gym, but it doesn’t act like one.  It doesn’t have salesmen pushing expensive annual memberships, and if you ask to join, its owner will say you can’t.  What’s more, in this gym, no-one is allowed to work out alone.
May 20th, 2011 | Business Vox, Sports Vox | Read More