Arthur Hacker

Racial tensions mixed with a dash of arsenic and yeast

15 Jan 2007

While Hongkongers this morning eat their breakfast, few may be aware that on this day exactly 150 years ago the city woke to find that almost its entire European population of about 500 people was...

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Gallery revisits pop art of city's Swinging '70s

7 Mar 2006

When British artist Arthur Hacker arrived in Hong Kong in December 1967, a few bombs were still going off as the pro-communist riots tapered off.

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Favourites

9 May 1999

The colonial historian came to Hong Kong in 1967 and was the Government Information Service's art and creative director until 1989 when he became a freelance writer and illustrator.

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Dry handover for hacks

26 Jan 1997

Not only will journos have to make do with watching the handover ceremony, like everybody else, on a big TV screen, it seems the thousands of thirsty hacks must resort to their own ingenuity on...

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Hacker on the trail of Jockey Club chairmen of yesteryear

24 Sep 1995

LOCAL historian Arthur Hacker, formerly of the Hong Kong Government and once on Britain's Street of Shame (Fleet Street, that was), is on the lookout for ageing racing sleuths.

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On Another Day

4 Mar 1995

TO the roar of the crowd, Sir Ellis Kadoorie's Tytam Chief galloped home to win the Hong Kong Derby. In 1918 the race was held on February 26, and it was a beautiful sunny day.

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Opinion

The last straw for Terry Wong?

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Alex Lo

We need a sober view of sexual violence

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Vampire's teething problems

FORTY-SIX years ago today, the fishermen of Bias Bay, in China, 40 kilometres north of Hong Kong, woke up to find a Vampire had landed on their beach.

It bore little resemblance to...

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On another day

AS the result of challenging Major Caine, founder of the Hong Kong Police, to a duel, Lieutenant Macdonald of the 98th Regiment was court-martialled on March 4, 1845.

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On another day

CAPTAIN William Thornton Bate RN was an archetypal specimen of the Victorian muscular Christian. During the Opium Wars, he scaled the massive walls of Chapu alone, and singlehandedly captured the...

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On another day

THE balloon went up! ''Mr Baldwin came down as gently as a bird on an unwary worm.'' This is how the Hong Kong Telegraph described the colony's first balloon ascent, and parachute descent, which...

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Have we cleaned up our act?

WHAT comes to mind when one mentions the Keep Hongkong Clean campaign? Lap Sap Chung, almost certainly.

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