Sixteen years after its return to China, Macau is a city at the crossroads. In this South China Morning Post multimedia package, Raquel Carvalho delves into its chequered history, charts its meteoric rise and asks what the future holds.
Hong Kong-born Vivek Mahbubani, who is fluent in Cantonese and English, is one of the comedians performing in this week’s Magners Comedy Festival. He talks to the SCMP about his experiences of racism in the city he calls home.
An ordinary domestic helper from Manila reaches her dream city of Hong Kong – only to find herself at odds with a flawed and troubled labour system
To celebrate the beauty and diversity of Chinese opera, veterans Liza Wang Ming-chun, Law Ka-ying and Tang Yuen-ha explain the distinct characteristics of Cantonese Opera, Peking Opera and kunqu.
Hong Kong’s hawkers will die out in less than 50 years, if current stringent policies don’t change. Talking to different hawkers from those manning dai pai dongs to itinerant hawkers selling fruit on carts and stall owners touting clothes on Mong Kok’s famous hawker streets, the South China Morning Post reports on what is pushing the trade into extinction.
What makes Hong Kong unique? Is it Cantonese Opera, the Dragon Boat festival, Lion dancing, Wing Chun, snake wine or shrimp paste?
Suffering and displacement endures in Japan after a devastating earthquake and tsunami in 2011 wreaked havoc.
'I always come down on the side of the underdog,' explains SCMP cartoonist Harry Harrison, as he celebrates 20 years in Hong Kong with a video interview and collection of his favourite sketches.
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant went into meltdown just 13 kilometres away from Naoto Matsumura's home. After being turned away from an overcrowded temporary shelter, he decided to take his chances back home in Tomioka city, Fukushima prefecture, and take care of his animals.
