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— February 28, 2017Intelligence Squared’s cultural debate will look at the pros and cons of social media and its place in the evolution of the way people look at art
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US immigration debate
— February 22, 2017Shanthi Sekaran – herself the child of immigrants to the US – dramatises a hot-button issue with her story of Soli and Kavya
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Violinist Leo Phillips
— January 24, 2017The musician, who led the orchestra on the soundtrack to the film Philadelphia, has performed as leader or concertmaster with more than 30 orchestras
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Namibia’s dessert lions
— December 16, 2016The Namibia-born, Cambridge-educated conservation expert has been tracking the desert lions of Namibia for 35 years. He talks about how he has built a relationship with the big cats and why he doesn’t sleep at night
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All aboard, gourmands
— December 1, 2016Transporting travellers from London to Venice in style, the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express is making this fabled journey taste even better than ever.
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Home truths
— November 2, 2016Hong Kong-born Richard Bush, a former US Congressional adviser and intelligence officer, sees potential for city but says political mess needs fixing for it to be unleashed, and expects another Occupy-style flare-up
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Mixed Fortunes
— January 31, 2017In her book Eurasians, MIT professor contrasts attitudes towards interracial marriage in three jurisdictions, and how mixed-race families in Hong Kong were able to grow wealthy despite facing discrimination
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Rise and shine and rave
— December 18, 2016Daybreaker dancing is an early-morning dance party without the drugs or the drink. Morning’s when we’re most optimistic, explains global movement’s founder Radha Agrawal. In Hong Kong, it’s got competition
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Cancer a catalyst for creativity
— December 13, 2016Siak drew from her own life and her family story for her debut novel, The Woman Who Breathed Two Worlds, after battle with illness left her at her ‘lowest point’
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Adam Johnson
— November 3, 2016The Hong Kong International Literary Festival speaker, who won a Pulitzer Prize for The Orphan Master’s Son, talks about his lonely childhood and why his stories tend to veer towards the bizarre
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Alibaba’s shopping festival
— October 20, 2016The group estimates that about 40,000 merchants will participate in this year’s festival, including luxury brands such as Burberry, Paul Smith, Estee Lauder, L’Oreal and Guerlain.
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Lessons from Antarctica
— December 26, 2015Living at latitudes where six months of day is followed by six months of night can wreak havoc on sleep patterns and health. In Hong Kong, long working hours and smartphone addiction can do the same
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Things Are Brewing In North Korea’s Rason Zone
— December 2, 2013Tomas Novotny has been in North Korea two days, and he looks frazzled.
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Pages of history
— April 1, 2014Fulfilling a specialist niche, Hong Kong’s rare and antiquarian bookshops focus on the passion for collecting rather than profit
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Unravelling your DNA is cheap and easy
— June 19, 2016Kate Whitehead wanted to know more about her ancestry – and was pleased by the results – but also learned about her health
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‘Taiwan was stifling’
— August 23, 2018Chien-Chi Chang talks about the slow process of joining the elite agency and how he came to shoot a marriage market in Vietnam and immigrants in New York’s Chinatown and their families back in Fujian
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Doing business in Myanmar
— October 1, 2013Change is happening fast in Myanmar. For 50 years the country stagnated under the thumb of the ruling military junta, weighed down by tough economic sanctions, but the window to the world blew open in March 2011 when a new government took office and with it came sweeping reforms.