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  • Just can’t get enough

    — July 15, 2017

    One rehab clinic operating in Hong Kong has recorded a 30 per cent increase in the number of people seeking help for sex addiction – and counsellors believe hook-up apps, such as Tinder, are to blame

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  • Her place in the world

    — July 11, 2017

    Korean-American author Han explores the interrelation of different cultures in her new book of short stories, and says it is through writing that she finally found her own place in the world – and made peace with it

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  • Hotels with history

    — July 1, 2017

    If walls could talk

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  • Rob Wagemans

    — June 28, 2017

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  • Luxury on the waterfront

    — June 27, 2017

    Hongkongers will be familiar with The Upper House, the hotel in Pacific Place that opened in 2009 and propelled Andre Fu into the big league. He has worked on a string of luxury hospitality projects in the years since and among key completions this year is the Kerry Hotel, the first new hotel on the…

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  • Andy Neilson’s 40 years in Hong Kong

    — June 22, 2017

    From a short stint as a policeman to opening a pub and a nightclub, to making toy soldiers, it’s been an eventful 40 years in Hong Kong for Scot Andy Neilson

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  • Global Brands Group Aims for $5B

    — June 14, 2017

    The company expects its growth to come organically and from new licenses.

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  • Chris Patten’s Hong Kong aide Kerry McGlynn

    — May 19, 2017

    Australian former journalist Kerry McGlynn, the man behind Hong Kong’s branding as Asia’s World City, recalls the last British governor’s ‘amazing’ sense of humour and how the ‘heavens wept’ when Chinese rule resumed

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  • Chinese officials postpone events to mark 1967 riots

    — May 18, 2017

    Journalist Ching Cheong reveals ex-rioters eager to mark 50 years since deadly protests in city bowed to Beijing’s liaison office and delayed events so celebrations of 20th anniversary of Chinese rule of Hong Kong wouldn’t be hit

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  • Transcendental Meditation

    — May 11, 2017

    At a recent lunchtime gathering in Central, TM instructor James Meade was asked what sets his HK$6,800 course apart; his response was surprisingly weak

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  • History in the faking

    — May 3, 2017

    British history professor and author Robert Bickers laments China’s redacting of historical documents, and says he’s proud to be labelled a ‘historical nihilist’ by Beijing

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