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  • From Berkeley hippy to Dalai Lama’s personal physician

    — May 15, 2016

    The American doctor and Buddhist monk, a visiting professor at the University of Hong Kong, tells Kate Whitehead about losing his wife, finding faith and how he came to be personal physician to the Dalai Lama

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  • Olivia Newton John talks Grease, the power of change and cancer

    — May 1, 2016

    Ahead of her latest Hong Kong concert, multi-platinum Australian singer, film star and co-founder of a wellness centre talks about her life, tragedies and triumphs, and how she keeps on keeping on

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    — April 21, 2016

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    — April 20, 2016

    Exhibition marking 30 years of criminology programme at University of Hong Kong shows graduates’ work on issues such as triads, policing, and how crime patterns have evolved since the 1980s

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  • Filmmaker James Redford

    — April 17, 2016

    The American director talks to Kate Whitehead about the Sundance Institute, how he ended up making films, and why his son’s dyslexia was the trigger for ‘probably the most important film I’ve ever made’

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  • The artist who camouflaged a shop

    — April 10, 2016

    Not only has the German used military ‘dazzle camouflage’ for leather-goods brand MCM’s shop, he’s also used it in the product designs. And for good measure the display includes teapots, a pig, a skull and a severed arm. ‘It’s … about what a shape is, what a product is,’ he explains to Kate Whitehead

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  • Hong Kong and China can’t escape Zika virus

    — April 7, 2016

    Scientist volunteering in the fight against virus linked to shrunken brains in newborns and crippling autoimmune disease uses crowdfunding for project to produce simple, affordable test for Zika

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  • The truth about breakfast

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    Whether or not you should eat breakfast depends on how active you will be later, lead researcher in comprehensive UK study says. If you aren’t hungry and you’ll be sedentary all day, there may be no need to eat anything

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  • Li Huayi on his lucky life

    — March 27, 2016

    Born in Shanghai in 1948, the artist spent the Cultural Revolution drawing propaganda posters and admiring Buddhist art in temples and the Dunhuang caves, then married into a family entitled to live in the United States, where he could earn a living painting, he tells Kate Whitehead

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  • Prime Source focuses on sustainability

    — March 16, 2016

    Sustainability topped the agenda at the Prime Source Forum that brought together 300 senior executives from 17 countries to discuss the challenges and opportunities across the global fashion supply chain.

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    — March 13, 2016

    The co-founder of the Californian band tells Kate Whitehead about riding the fame wave.

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