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Online access to Tang Dynasty art classics

SOME OF THE GREATEST classic art in the region came from the Tang Dynasty -- extraordinary murals, capturing life more than a thousand years ago. Click here to join a virtual journey which takes you back in time into the heart of Chang’an, the biggest city in the world at that time. The video…

April 4, 20220Comments ByH.C. Lu

News

British judges departure a shame, but no surprise

There's a whole lobby of people in the UK working hard to harm Hong Kong and this is simply their latest move, writes Grenville Cross THAT LORD ROBERT REED and Lord Patrick Hodge have resigned from Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal is a great pity and a big loss but not a total…

March 31, 20220Comments ByGrenville Cross

News

Data says China, NZ strategy better than ‘living with Covid’

THE DATA IS IN. While columnists wave the flag for “living with Covid”, top medical journals say the numbers tell a different story: the minimizing "Covid elimination" strategy associated with China, New Zealand, and a few other places, is statistically better for public health, the economy, and even civil freedoms. Fridayeveryday looks at the numbers…

March 31, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Features

Facts vs politics in the ‘living with Covid’ debate

China’s firm, serious approach to managing the Covid pandemic has differed from that of many other countries, and has clearly worked rather well. Yet Western media outlets feel compelled to tell China that it has slipped badly behind the times by not shifting, as they have, to Living with Covid. Seeing other (surely inferior!) societies doing…

March 31, 20220Comments ByRichard Cullen

Features

Why Hong Kong’s Omicron death toll suddenly soared

For two years, Hong Kong demonstrated an admirable capacity to retain robust control of COVID-19 outbreaks. This durable achievement was, however, grimly transformed by the Omicron driven fifth wave of COVID cases. Richard Cullen looks at what went wrong A RESPECTED, VETERAN Hong Kong journalist, Peter Kammerer, argued in the South China Morning Post…

March 31, 20220Comments ByRichard Cullen

News

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

Opinion

GBA integration will power Hong Kong’s future

Hong Kong is gradually integrating with the world's fastest modernizing region. Image of Guangzhou East Railway Station above by Keith Lau/ Unsplash Hong Kong has had a variety of evolving relationships with the urban areas north of the border over the years, but the latest has the most potential, says urban planner and Legislative Council…

March 29, 20220Comments ByAndrew Lam

Culture Videos

Suhanya Raffel: Hong Kong’s visual art revolution

An Englishman's visit to a Guangdong village brickmaker led to the creation of a piece of art about China's people and the future of the world For years considered a cultural desert, Hong Kong now aims to be a world leader in appreciation of the arts Having overtaken London as an art investment hub, the…

March 28, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Videos

China’s reinvention of money

INTERNATIONAL FINANCE EXPERT Martin Chorzempa this week sent his new book off to the printer. Called "The Cashless Revolution" it deals with China's reinvention of money and examines the coming end of America's domination of finance and technology. In the video below, Friday's editor Nury Vittachi looks at the subject of how China has been…

March 25, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Culture

Taste slow-cooked lamb in the Altay Mountains to rise up to heaven

Image above shows Kazakh horse meat sausage. Image by Marco Verch/ ccnull YOU THINK YOU KNOW Chinese food? Adventurous young Chinese foodies are heading into the cold, remote highlands of the western region to find delicious new flavors. The bad news is that sometimes you have to decide which of your four-legged friends is…

March 24, 20220Comments ByEmily Zhou

Online access to Tang Dynasty art classics

British judges departure a shame, but no surprise

Data says China, NZ strategy better than ‘living with Covid’

Facts vs politics in the ‘living with Covid’ debate

Why Hong Kong’s Omicron death toll suddenly soared

Hong Kong women are scooping up younger male marriage partners

GBA integration will power Hong Kong’s future

Suhanya Raffel: Hong Kong’s visual art revolution

China’s reinvention of money

Taste slow-cooked lamb in the Altay Mountains to rise up to heaven

Hong Kong quietly becomes major tennis hub for the world

3-parent baby case led to one of the oddest reviews in HK legal history

This child has three parents: so who is his mother?