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June 8, 2024 - Journalist and true-crime podcaster pursues justice for Australian women murder victims
April 14, 2024 - Boris Johnson’s youngest brother Max on Hong Kong, Covid frustrations, and a special trip with dad
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Journalist and true-crime podcaster pursues justice for Australian women murder victims

— June 8, 2024

Hedley Thomas, investigative journalist and author, talks about corrupt cops, marrying in Hong Kong and making a difference through podcasts My mum could tell a great story by adding things that may or may not have happened. Dad was a stickler for details and precision, as you’d probably expect from a military pilot. That combination…

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  • Boris Johnson’s youngest brother Max on Hong Kong, Covid frustrations, and a special trip with dad

    — April 14, 2024

    Max Johnson, 21 years younger than his half-brother, the former British prime minister, speaks Russian, lived in Beijing and Hong Kong, and married a Brazilian I was born in 1985 in Brussels, where my father was working for the European Commission. My sister, Julia, is three years older than me and I have four half-siblings…

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  • Art lowers stress and anxiety, boosts dopamine

    — March 23, 2024

    Research has shown that looking at art that we consider beautiful triggers the same pleasurable response we get when we fall in love There may still be a gloomy post-pandemic cloud hanging over Hong Kong, but when it comes to art, the city is singing. Hong Kong has emerged as the third-largest art market in…

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  • Art historian who overcame sexism and sickness to make ‘a powerful difference’

    — February 27, 2024

    Yeewan Koon revived Chinese art history courses at the University of Hong Kong, advises top art institutions, and wrote a book on Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara Yeewan Koon, associate professor and chair of the art history department at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), is not only super smart but sassy as well. It’s a…

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  • How extreme heat can affect your mental health and the best ways to cope

    — August 15, 2023

    From feeling anxious and frustrated to irritable and even aggressive, extreme heat can affect our mental health in many ways July was Hong Kong’s hottest month on record, with 21 “very hot days” when the daily maximum temperature reached 33 degrees Celsius (91 degrees Fahrenheit) or above. While the physical discomfort of such heat is…

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  • ‘I felt so helpless’: Hong Kong elderly-care-home staff still processing trauma of pandemic

    — July 15, 2023

    Elderly-care homes in Hong Kong lost 20 to 50 per cent of their residents to Covid-19 during the fifth wave of the pandemic in 2022 The trauma of the pandemic is still being felt among the owners and staff of Hong Kong’s private elderly-care homes, which bore the brunt of the crisis and saw thousands…

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  • How to age well: tips from 98-year-old Nazi concentration camp survivor

    — April 6, 2024

    It’s never too late to start exercising, says Andrei Iwanowitsch, who was in his 80s before becoming physically active – he feels better now than 15 years ago Andrei Iwanowitsch is a 98-year-old with a spring in his step and a twinkle in his eye. On holiday from his home in Belarus, he’s spent the…

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  • How to get over the death of a pet

    — March 17, 2024

    A pet dying can be as traumatic as losing a family member, especially when not everyone understands your pain In July 2023, Candice Powell, the chief executive of Hong Kong mental health charity Mind HK, received devastating news: her beloved dog Guinness had cancer. “The anxiety and all the feelings were similar to when a…

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  • ‘No one asks to become addicted’

    — November 26, 2023

    Cammie Wolf Rice shares her struggle to make sense of losing her son to opioids in her new book, and how she helps parents take steps to prevent similar deaths Cammie Wolf Rice is a woman with a fire in her belly. Every opportunity she has to speak her truth, she does not hesitate to…

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  • He survived an abusive childhood. Now his NGO trains teachers and parents to treat children with compassion

    — July 17, 2023

    Raymond Yang co-founded NGO Just Feel to train schools and families in compassionate communication. He recounts how his violent upbringing inspired him My father moved to Hong Kong from Fujian [in southeast China] in 1976 at the end of the Cultural Revolution, when he was 18. He worked super hard, as a street cleaner, a…

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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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