Hong Kong Fashion Week Struggles With Direction
— July 15, 2014The 21st edition of Hong Kong Fashion Week wrapped its four-day run late last week
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Past lives haunt Beijinger in intriguing novel
— July 6, 2014Gripping novel spans centuries in China as modern Beijinger is stalked by sinister mystery soul mate
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The medium is the message for green artists
— June 23, 2014A small group of artists are hoping to inspire change in Hong Kong’s attitude towards the environment.
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Hong Kong Retailers Hit by Tensions Over China Tourists
— June 11, 2014Debate over a controversial proposal to curb the number of Mainland tourists was already tense with concerns that any cut would hurt the retail sector and put a dent in the economy. Now new figures show retailers have every reason to be concerned, especially those in the jewelry, watch and luxury goods market.
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China’s frontiers: Is there anything left to explore?
— June 11, 2014Exploration 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…
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Cafe Scientifique talks capture imagination
— June 3, 2014An initiative to promote informal discussion with experts about science topics is gaining popularity
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Sleep in Kim Jong-il’s bed
— June 2, 2014The power had gone out. I was lying on the floor in the pitch black, listening to waves crashing on the beach outside, wondering whether the late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il had heard similar sounds as he fell asleep here.
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Off the beaten track in North Korea
— May 30, 2014Planning a trip to North Korea’s seldom visited north-east? Kate Whitehead provides a guide to the best hotels
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5 reasons Bathurst may be South Africa’s most eccentric town
— May 29, 2014It’s a village not a town. So say residents of Bathurst, a magnet for the creative and curious located in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, approximately 12 kilometers from Port Alfred. Residents are proud of the eccentricity of their town. Or village. “You’ve got to have certain things to be a town, like a…
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How a US filmmaker started a charity to improve the care of orphans in China
— May 27, 2014The dire state of mainland orphanages 15 years ago spurred filmmaker Jenny Bowen into action. Her charity, Half the Sky, has been a huge success and now works with officials across the country
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Chan Koonchung finds humour in China-Tibet dynamic
— May 25, 2014Chan Koonchung satire shows how inequalities of power warp the China-Tibet relationship
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— May 24, 2018Marco Ferrarese talks about the sense of adventure that brought him to Asia and why contemporary travellers make him sick
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Go all James Bond at the JW Marriott Venice Resort & Spa
— June 28, 2015What is it? A brand new 266-room hotel on its own island (below) within the Venice lagoon. Isola delle Rose is an artificial island, built in the 19th century, and JW Marriott spent several years transforming what had been a sanatorium before the hotel opened in March.
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Rani Hong wants to end modern slavery
— September 8, 2018India-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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Gene breakthrough brings cure for jet lag closer
— September 8, 2013Researcher says treatment would allow air passengers to adapt to new time zones ‘far more quickly’, but cure for jet lag is still some way off
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Mind of a serial killer
— August 15, 2017The crimes of Hong Kong’s first serial killer were so shocking that a female forensic scientist was removed from the case and only men were allowed to serve on the jury