The average Chinese person lives in a small city you've never heard of - and that's where you begin to gain a deeper understanding of the people and the country.
FOR FOUR DAYS, I've been in southern Hunan in the city of Chenzhou (郴州). Chenzhou is not a big or famous…
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Violent death arrived in Hong Kong on December 8, 1941. Japanese troops took just four days to chase most British forces out of Kowloon. But one old European horticulturalist, who lived in a house in Ho Man Tin, turned his home into a sanctuary for hundreds of westerners—and defended it with guns. Meno Monteir tells…
Modern-day Hong Kong is divided into three regions: Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, and the New Territories. Few people today remember the fact that in the past there was an area called New Kowloon. Andrew Lam reports.
THE BRITISH ADDED Hong Kong to its empire in 1841, and signed the Treaty of Nanjing in 1842. Thanks…
Swanky artisan coffee shops may be cool, but Hong Kong's traditional stores need our support too, says Anna Tang
FEW THINGS ARE more pleasurable than doing some nostalgic shopping – especially if you are hungry.
What’s your pleasure? It may be the Dragon’s beard candy (龍鬚糖) found in Yuen Long and Tuen Mun, or that…
Good at math? Bad at sports? A new generation of Asian young people are aware of how they are seen from the west and know that this will have to change, writes Hong Kong teenager Anna Tang.
ASIA IS A PLACE in the Far East which consists of three countries: Japan, Korea and China.
Seriously?…
Conversations with strangers on the internet tend to be superficial, judgmental and short. But make an effort, and it can be an opportunity to have in-depth discussions with people you’d never normally meet. Anna Tang reports.
THE NIGHT BEFORE writing this, I was “strolling” around the online Q&A site Quora and encountered a man…
Today, Hong Kong's small but crowded Causeway Bay district is famous as being among the most expensive retail spaces in the world to rent. But few people remember the extraordinary story of the family behind the miracle. Nury Vittachi and Emily Zhou report.
IMAGINE HONG KONG'S Victoria Park underwater. In the 1920s, there was…
(Caption: Look closely at the thousands of aluminium panels on the side walls and you can see the classical Chinese influence on what looks like a very contemporary building. Image: China State Construction Engineering (Hong Kong))
WHEN GLOBALLY ACCLAIMED Hong Kong architect Rocco Yim Sen-kee took the helm of designing the city’s new Palace…