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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

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

News

Mind control and Molotovs: Hong Kong’s special pandemic challenges

Initial hostile reactions to quarantine facilities and the vaccines in Hong Kong (arson attacks, mind control accusations, and "a way for Beijing to steal our DNA!") seem bizarre to us now, but they are just two years old. THERE HAS BEEN A LOT of criticism regarding deaths in Hong Kong’s fifth wave of Covid.…

March 17, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Features

Climber aims to scale physical and mental peaks

THE HIGHEST POINT on Earth is an irregular slope measuring just three to four square meters in size. The air is thin, the temperature is freezing and the rocks are encased in a three-meter-thick covering of ice blanket. These are sights only seen first-hand by those who successfully reach the summit of Mount Everest, people…

March 16, 20220Comments ByLinda Xi Tianqi

News

Instant hospitals give Hong Kong a fighting chance

Numbers of available beds rises fast as facilities come on line Vax rate for elderly rises, for 40-somethings hits 99.88 per cent Hong Kong has always been a survivor, says Chief Executive Carrie Lam Many community medical facilities are actually hotels, including some luxury ones AN “INSTANT HOSPITAL” was built in a week in…

March 10, 20220Comments BySeth Mallick

Opinion

Hong Kong, mainland join hands to fight pandemic

THE NUMBER OF CASES of Covid-19 in Hong Kong has skyrocketed since the Lunar New Year. It is heartbreaking to learn of the passing away of hundreds of our citizens, including an 11-month-old baby and dozens of elders aged 80 or above. Following five rounds of meetings in Shenzhen chaired by Xia Baolong, director…

March 1, 20220Comments ByHenry Ho

News

Squat toilet or luxury hospital suite? Start praying now

Seven things to know about what's happening as the virus sweeps through Hong Kong 1) YOU WILL HATE THIS As Covid sweeps through Hong Kong, workers have worked day and night to create temporary isolation centers at high speed – but they are NOT luxurious. They are basically container-sized boxes with three beds in…

March 1, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Opinion

Hong Kong should choose cohesiveness over individualism

Communities face a stark choice in fighting Covid, says top Hong Kong lawyer Ambrose Lam San-keung: either we follow mainland China’s united action to save lives, or the West’s preservation of individual rights to sacrifice the vulnerable AS THE SPREAD of the Omicron variant continues to rise in Hong Kong, there has been much…

February 24, 20220Comments ByAmbrose Lam

Culture

Virus silences Cantonese opera, but just for a while

A major Cantonese opera event was due to take place in Hong Kong this week. But the Arts Festival's 50th anniversary celebration of the signature Cantonese operas of Sun Ma Sze Tsang, has been postponed due to the city's Covid precautions. The star, who died in 1997, was due to have his works interpreted by…

February 23, 20220Comments ByLee Chack Fan

Online access to Tang Dynasty art classics

Why Hong Kong’s Omicron death toll suddenly soared

Hong Kong women are scooping up younger male marriage partners

Mind control and Molotovs: Hong Kong’s special pandemic challenges

Climber aims to scale physical and mental peaks

Instant hospitals give Hong Kong a fighting chance

Hong Kong, mainland join hands to fight pandemic

Squat toilet or luxury hospital suite? Start praying now

Hong Kong should choose cohesiveness over individualism

Virus silences Cantonese opera, but just for a while

As Hong Kong people mourn, western journalists rush to politicize tragedy

West’s hybrid warfare team using Tai Po tragedy to destabilize Hong Kong

I worked at a law firm on the Chinese mainland – here’s what I learned