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June 8, 2024 - Journalist and true-crime podcaster pursues justice for Australian women murder victims
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  • TakeOut Comedy club founder on 9/11, why he ‘hated being Chinese’ – and how his dead grandma inspired him

    — June 18, 2023

    Jami Gong, founder of the first full-time comedy club in Asia, TakeOut Comedy, talks about growing up in New York and the thrill of watching an audience laugh My mum was born and raised in Hong Kong and lived through World War II (1939-1945) there, and my dad is from Toisan (in Guangdong province). They…

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  • Giving birth in Hong Kong in the pandemic

    — June 14, 2023

    A mother who gave birth in a Hong Kong public hospital during the Covid-19 pandemic recalls a lack of communication and being denied basic comforts When Monique discovered she was pregnant during the Covid-19 pandemic, she expected challenges and restrictions. What she didn’t expect was to spend so much of her time in hospital arguing…

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  • Hong Kong football legend Derek ‘Jesus’ Currie on playing Pelé five times and being a sports star in the ’70s

    — June 11, 2023

    Derek Currie, one of the first Europeans to play professional football in Hong Kong, came to the city in 1970 and quickly became a local celebrity I was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on February 8, 1949. I suppose I was fated to come to the Far East because 1949 was the year Mao Zedong declared…

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