22 Mar 2013

Being a long-time resident of Hong Kong, I read with a great deal of interest what China's new president, Xi Jinping, was reported in the media to have said about a Chinese dream of national...

4:00AM
10 Mar 2013

Since 1996, Dave May has been on the fiddle in Hong Kong - not that he's doing anything illegal. The Scotsman from Stenhousemuir has been a busker, or street performer, in the city for the past 17...

6:36AM
22 Jul 2012

Send right message on sustainability

10:01PM
15 Jul 2012

His indiscreet handling of the incident effectively set a trap for himself

Fanny Law Fan Chiu-fun, the chief executive's former top aide, on Leung Chun-ying's handling of the row...

9:26PM
15 Jul 2012

Street performance is as much a part of culture as what goes on in an art gallery or a concert hall. To many in Hong Kong, though, it is less associated with art and entertainment than with...

9:21PM
9 Jul 2012

[The police] invoke any and every reason for moving us on ... a policeman told us there had been a noise complaint before we had even started playing!

Busker Joseph von Hess

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7:38PM

Nine homeless people are suing the government. They say government workers threw all their belongings away during a clean-up. The judge has asked them to see if they can reach an agreement with...

4:03PM

Nine homeless people suing the government were urged to seek an out-of-court settlement yesterday at a preliminary hearing into the case.

3:45PM

The owner of Shenzhen's Family of Love charity house, once named a 'civilised citizen' and 'ambassador of love' by the city, has been accused of sexually abusing a girl aged nine.

6:48PM

Whenever I hear the sound of a saxophone, I have to stop, stand and take it in. It has been that way since the night in 1975 when, driving with my father on a back road with the radio on, I heard...

5:37PM

The life and soul of a city is to be found on its streets. In Hong Kong, there is certainly plenty of life, but soul is scarcely to be seen and when it is, authorities are most of the time chasing...

2:44PM

It was a good thing that crooner Jing Wong (pictured centre with Christina Paul, left, and Kay Wong) was in top form at the opening of his indie fashion label Daydream Nation's flagship store in...

5:24PM

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