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Ed-tech star rises from Hong Kong minority

A young Hong Kong firm has found a way to teach computer coding skills to children and adults in more than 20 countries around the world. To read about the company, BSD Education, click here. Or scroll down for an essay profiling Nickey Khemchandani, one of the firm's co-founders. Meno Mentier reports. HONG KONG IS…

November 14, 20220Comments ByMeno Monteir

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The good folk organizing parties for other people’s children

CLOSE YOUR EYES. Make a wish. Now blow out those candles! One of the great things about these modern “globalized” days is that we can all adopt each other’s traditions. And the big favorite across much of the world now is the children’s birthday party. The idea of annual gatherings, where you mark someone’s age…

October 28, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Hong Kong: densely packed but surprisingly green

With its dramatic vistas of mountains, oceans and lakes, Hong Kong has always been an attractive place to live. How has this been achieved, since the city is more densely packed than even India's Mumbai? Andrew Lam reports. HONG KONG HAS ALMOST three times as many people per square kilometer than Singapore or London. We…

October 18, 20220Comments ByAndrew Lam

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Creating an e-commerce system for everyone

TEN YEARS AGO, many people expected the e-commerce revolution to change the way that humans bought and sold things. Except it didn’t. Not at first. There were some early adopters, but the average person on the street was still hesitant. What if you ordered something … and it didn’t arrive? Or the wrong thing was…

October 5, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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The banana trader who saw the future of shopping

A BANANA SALESMAN stepped into a department store called David Jones & Co and saw the future. This was 1890s Sydney, and the man, Ma Ying-piu (馬應彪), had never seen anything like it. In front of him was a huge space in which people bought an unimaginably wide variety of goods, and above were multiple…

September 29, 20220Comments ByFriday Writers

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Why people sewed up a wound on the back of a giant fish

The Emperor's fish, an extraordinary giant beast that had been seen in the waters of the great rivers for centuries, was dying. Until the day came when there was just one left. It was injured and the people tried desperately to save it. Emily Zhou reports. THE WINTER OF 2003 was bitterly cold. A…

September 29, 20220Comments ByEmily Zhou

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May Yeung is bringing art to a public space near you

Art galleries and museums are fine, but art should be done by creative young people and should be present in the public environment, says the super-creative Hong Kong artist. H.C. Lu reports VISITORS WHO STEPPED into the Rockefeller Memorial Chapel in the US a few years ago got a surprise – there was a pair…

September 19, 20220Comments ByH.C. Lu

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Spirit of Eileen Chang remains on this Hong Kong beach

GETTING ON A DOUBLE-DECKER in Central and grabbing a seat upstairs, you can head to Repulse Bay in the southern part of Hong Kong Island. This district, one of the most expensive residential areas in the world, is reached by a 30-minute picturesque ride with great scenery of mountains and seas along the road. Embraced…

September 7, 20220Comments ByEmily Zhou

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Return to the Kingdom of Bicycles

Planners designed ten thousand kilometers of bike track in China, as cycling makes a huge comeback THE BICYCLES ARE BACK. Cycling, for decades the dominant mode of transport in China, is becoming popular again, and the potential is immense. Shanghai, 1980s As recently as the 1990s, China was known as the Kingdom of Bicycles, with roads…

August 8, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Memories of Hu Fa-kuang shared at mega bookfair

SOMETHING HAD TO BE DONE. Large areas of crumbling old buildings in Kowloon needed to be knocked down and replaced, everyone agreed. This was in the late 1980s, and the Hong Kong government, run by the British, said they would inject HK$100 million into a group called the Land Development Corporation. Problem solved? No, not…

August 1, 20220Comments ByFriday Writers

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Ed-tech star rises from Hong Kong minority

The good folk organizing parties for other people’s children

Hong Kong: densely packed but surprisingly green

Creating an e-commerce system for everyone

The banana trader who saw the future of shopping

Why people sewed up a wound on the back of a giant fish

May Yeung is bringing art to a public space near you

Spirit of Eileen Chang remains on this Hong Kong beach

Return to the Kingdom of Bicycles

Memories of Hu Fa-kuang shared at mega bookfair

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