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Lee Hysan: a tale of poetry, murder and the moving of mountains

Today, Hong Kong's small but crowded Causeway Bay district is famous as being among the most expensive retail spaces in the world to rent. But few people remember the extraordinary story of the family behind the miracle. Nury Vittachi and Emily Zhou report. IMAGINE HONG KONG'S Victoria Park underwater. In the 1920s, there was…

July 12, 20220Comments ByFriday Writers

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Ni Kuang: A king of Hong Kong genre fiction

A troubled escapee from the People’s Liberation Army was smuggled to Hong Kong and eventually became a celebrated author WRITER NI KUANG is being mourned in Hong Kong and across much of the Chinese-speaking world. To readers of Chinese, he was the bestselling author of huge numbers of genre books with sci-fi, martial arts and…

July 7, 20220Comments ByFriday Writers

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Humor spot: Solomon Islands

June 7, 20220Comments ByFriday Writers

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Thought-provoker: If you went back to 1955 Asia…

June 6, 20220Comments ByFriday Writers

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Humor spot: Tell me what country you’re from in two words

June 6, 20220Comments ByFriday Writers

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Shenzhen races to set up pandemic pet care facilities

SHENZHEN HEALTH OFFICIALS are going out of their way to give a first class service to pets of people in quarantine, avoiding the negative stories that have been seen in some other parts of China on this subject. Many Chinese people, some of them being the post-'90s generation, have embraced parenthood – but of pets,…

May 17, 20220Comments ByFriday Writers

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Hong Kong women are scooping up younger male marriage partners

LADIES, WOULD YOU consider marrying a younger man? Yes please, say Hong Kong women. Thousands of them have been going north into Mainland China to find younger males to wed. The border closures have halted the process, but demographers expect it to restart before the end of the year. The bride-older-than-groom trend, rare across…

March 30, 20220Comments ByFriday Writers

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China making more electric cars than all other nations put together

BUSINESS BRIEFING: Big jump in output of electric vehicles from mainland; in West, defence spending to rise "substantially"; and there are calls for the definition of socially positive investing A STUDY SHOWS CHINA is now producing more environmentally friendly electric cars than all other countries put together. “China accounted for 57.4% of the [global]…

March 13, 20220Comments ByFriday Writers

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Mainland leaders actively working for Hong Kong’s good

Hong Kong was in the spotlight at the annual meeting of China’s parliament on Monday Vice-Premier focused on the city in special session with 17 Hong Kong deputies Pandemic and livelihood issues are key focuses CHINA’S LEADER XI JINPING personally expressed a high level of concern about the latest pandemic situation in Hong…

March 8, 20220Comments ByFriday Writers

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Wave of pledges as Hong Kong people pull together

YOUNG PEOPLE, property tycoons, pop stars and truck drivers are pulling together to fight the Omicron wave in Hong Kong. There was a wave of pledges yesterday. Here are 12 things that people are doing. Hong Kong youth groups said they’d co-ordinate a free transportation service to move nurses, doctors, and medical goods Property tycoon Peter Lee Ka-kit…

February 19, 20220Comments ByFriday Writers

Friday Writers

Lee Hysan: a tale of poetry, murder and the moving of mountains

Ni Kuang: A king of Hong Kong genre fiction

Humor spot: Solomon Islands

Thought-provoker: If you went back to 1955 Asia…

Humor spot: Tell me what country you’re from in two words

Shenzhen races to set up pandemic pet care facilities

Hong Kong women are scooping up younger male marriage partners

China making more electric cars than all other nations put together

Mainland leaders actively working for Hong Kong’s good

Wave of pledges as Hong Kong people pull together

Starmer meets Xi today, hopes to rebuild UK’s relationship

Treasures from 800-year-old sunken vessel exhibited in Hong Kong

At the Great Wall, I learned how the Chinese dealt with their enemies