Hong Kong – There’s no sign advertising the services offered behind Choy Yau-king’s door. But the customers who are in-the-know also know the establishment has three rules. The first rule is that, after they enter one of the two bedrooms and lie down on the single mattress, the service they...

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.

Hong Kong — A visit to Tabla can be a challenge for the shopper in search of a quick and efficient lunch time retail therapy escape – but this is not because the store lacks beautiful or trendy clothing.

Hong Kong — It was a Sunday at Random Art Workshop, where eight customers sat in pairs, working fastidiously around a table covered in paper, photographs, pink ruffles, heart-shaped doilies and sundry small objects. But the scene was unusual on this day: half of the participants were men.

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...

Beijing — Situated in an inconspicuous alleyway, the traditional Chinese courtyard house passes for any ordinary residential dwelling in the Chinese capital. Behind its red wooden door, however, lies the headquarters of Wokai (“I Start” in Chinese), a non-profit micro-finance service, registered...

Hong Kong  – Freddy Law Wai-hung is a man with a mission. He wants to inject a degree of creativity and curiosity about the world into Hong Kong’s academically straight-jacketed education system. “I had worked in India and Europe, and after I came back, I realized that Hong Kong students lack...