YOU HAVE TO ADMIRE the honesty of Japanese actor-auteur Takeshi Kitano.
18 Jul 2013
SHIP STREET HAS SUDDENLY become Hip Street. The little row between Queen's Road East and Johnston Road used to be just another nondescript Wan Chai side-street.
There is a sense of amused hesitancy when Kay Tse On-kei brings up an innocuous question recently posed by her young son: What is the meaning of "milestones"?
KATE MCLENNAN'S MUM and dad are a goldmine. Every time she visits them in Geelong, southwest of Melbourne, she taps an irresistibly rich vein of stand-up comedy material.
After building up a following in Asia, one of the most critically acclaimed indie bands to emerge in recent years are making their Hong Kong debut later this month.
Since spring, the former Pier - a long, narrow bar a short distance from the Kennedy Town seafront - has been rebranded as a branch of one of Wan Chai's most famous expat hangouts. So now the...
CREAM ORCHIDS HANG overhead, and dangling pots burst with pink and purple petals. Outside, enormous lily pads float like dinner plates on reflective ponds, shoulder-high buttress roots stabilise...
The entrance to the restaurant can be off-putting - it didn't look like much and we almost left. But the interior was spacious - and empty. We were the only diners in the main room; but a couple...
Everyone loves a good monster movie, and Pacific Rim is one of the better ones. A serviceable story, well-planned animated action scenes, and some highly imaginative character design make for an...
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Hitching a ride - Newly married couples ride bicycles during a group wedding in Binzhou in Boxing county, Shandong province. Altogether 35 couples took part in the traditional wedding ceremony on the first day of the national holidays. In Beijing, about 110,000 people gathered at Tiananmen Square for a flag-raising ceremony on Tuesday, marking the 64th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Photo: Xinhua
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