BIG EARNERS WILL PAY more tax, Hong Kong's finance chief said in his latest budget. But the rate will still be far lower than rich people pay in other jurisdictions.
In the budget announced last Wednesday, Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po has come up with a fiscal consolidation program to slash the deficit in the…
HONG KONG DESIGNER Kelvin Ng (吳紹棠) and his wife Jane Tong (唐慕貞) never imagined that their sofa business Giormani (茲曼尼) would be such a big success when they started it about 25 years ago. Their tailor-made sofas are now sold in the city and over 40 markets worldwide.
Rather than just selling a piece…
THE LATEST EXHIBITION in Hong Kong of historical paintings, most about 500 years old, takes visitors to look back at the legendary lives of famed Chinese painter, calligrapher and poet Tang Yin (唐寅) and other notable scholars in the Ming dynasty (1368 -1644).
Image: H.C. Lu
Tang’s famous painting Appreciating Plum Blossoms (觀梅圖), along with other…
WORKS BY THE legendary artist known as Raphael (拉斐爾) are on show in Hong Kong. The Italian, whose real name was Raffaello Santi, is one of the most celebrated and prodigious Renaissance painters.
Santi (1483-1520), left the world with a staggering number of masterpieces, particularly those artworks highlighting sacred images.
Western painting exhibition in Hong…
A MASTERPIECE BY Vincent Van Gogh (梵高), Long Grass with Butterflies (長草地與蝴蝶), together with dozens of classic landscape paintings by famous western painters, are being exhibited in Hong Kong for the first time.
Art lovers can now visit a western painting exhibition called “Botticelli to Van Gogh: Masterpieces from The National Gallery” at the…
THE UNEARTHING OF STRANGE and sometimes grotesque bronze artefacts at the Sanxingdui (三星堆) site in Sichuan has been regarded as one of the most astounding archaeological discoveries in China, shedding light on the mysterious ancient Shu civilization that flourished about several thousands of years ago.
A golden mask unearthed in Sanxingdui is displayed in the…
Dancing twin sisters were celebrated this week in Hong Kong
MADAM SOONG CHING LING, the wife of modern China’s founder Dr Sun Yat Sen, was a woman of charisma who served the underprivileged women and children of the country.
Her life spanned many momentous events in modern China’s development. As the daughter of a missionary Charlie Soong, Madam Soong was in the first batch of…
FEEL LIKE ASIAN FOOD for dinner tonight? Chances are that one Hong Kong family will play a key role in flavoring your meal—and that’s true, whether you live in the US, Asia, Australia, or anywhere else.
A Hong Kong firm has quietly become the global king of sauces—and made the family behind it remarkably wealthy.…
AN EXHIBITION OF ARTIFACTS from the life of Madam Soong Ching-ling (宋慶齡), the wife of Dr Sun Yat-sen (孫中山), open in Hong Kong next week, with items put on display in the city for the first time.
A qipao (Chinese dress) she wore, historical photos with leaders, news clippings and other items will be on…