Author Lindsay Varty travelled across the city to talk to artisans working in trades that are fast dying out. From Auntie Yan and her vengeance shoe to Chan Lo-choi, still making wooden birdcages, here are some heroes from yesteryear
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India-born human rights advocate was sold into slavery as a child. Now she works to end the trade in people in the hope no child will have to endure what she went through
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Hongkonger Anthony Lau, National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year in 2016, has some simple advice: do your research, work with the elements, and don’t smash your zoom lens two days into a trip, as he did in Canada
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Veteran diplomat Nicholas Platt and his eldest sons, film star Oliver and food critic Adam, talk about breaking bread to win hearts and minds, and discovering Western fare in Hong Kong. Kate Whitehead reports
Paul French has published two books this year: City of Devils: A Shanghai Noir and Destination Shanghai
Website founder says that single men tend to receive more digital “winks” the higher their salary, while the number of winks women get starts to tail off after they earn more than US$7,600 a month
When you come from a land where we politely refer to smog as fog and have to have our stomachs pumped if we fall in the harbour, the Galapagos Islands are quite simply a paradise
Hong Kong-bound British-Norwegian musician, one of the hottest stars of classical music, explains how he manages a hectic concert schedule as well as forays into the worlds of fashion and pop
Exploration is challenging. If it’s too easy, then it’s not real exploration. So says Wong How Man, a Hong Konger who in 1974 began leading expeditions into what was then one of the world’s most isolated countries — China. “It was a time when China had very few friends, so we decided to step in…