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Learn all about what makes Hong Kong special: its people, their history, habits and quirks.
Without Hong Kong’s thriving entertainment industry and open culture, the genius and creativity of the literary giant and his martial arts epics would have no chance to shine.
Officials aim to preserve character of the flower market, saying less than 20 per cent of the shops will be affected. As some heritage sites have been ruined by insensitive renewal projects, balance must be struck between modernisation and conservation in Mong Kok East revitalisation.
While Hong Kong’s creative industries are not quite the ‘Oriental Hollywood’ they once were, it is important to invest in this key economic pillar and foster cultural identity.
With some 25,000 attending and economic gains of as much as HK$300 million, the three-day tournament lifts Hong Kong into the spotlight. String of events to follow with “Arts March” cultural activities for rest of month.
Nearly 30 overseas arts and cultural institutions are expected to sign agreements with the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority in March, with more art exhibits and performances to follow.
Deputy Financial Secretary Michael Wong also says Hong Kong expected to welcome about 50 million tourists in 2024, up from 34 million logged last year.
Yeo offered a glowing endorsement of the wuxia novelist after attending two exhibitions to celebrate the centenary of Jin Yong’ s birth.
One-time British Army block at Whitfield Barracks to become centre to promote Chinese culture, history and achievements.
Two-metre-tall statues of characters from the works of Cha, also known as Jin Yong, on display at Edinburgh Place in Central and Heritage Museum in Sha Tin.
Sandy Lam began life as a 1980s teen idol and released what is seen as the first Cantopop concept record. Known for her powerful voice and avant-garde songs, she has come back from hiatus time and again.
The meaning of home and family when one is kept apart from them by a pandemic is a big theme of Tsang Tsui-shan’s film about once-a-decade festivities in rural Hong Kong for which emigrants cannot return.
Authorities expect more than 2 million people to visit five installations, two of which will be on Hong Kong Island and three in Kowloon between March 25 and June 2.
We Are Family, Hong Kong comic Eric Tsang’s film about rent-a-families, starts off as a farcical showbiz satire before taking viewers on an emotional roller coaster, and ends as a poignant tear-jerker.
Official welcomes investment, while Federation of Hong Kong Filmmakers spokesman Tenky Tin says funding is largest he can recall by private sector.
Hotel industry chief says events such as Art Basel and Art Central expected to boost occupancy rates of nearby hotels to 100 per cent.
Hong Kong’s Rachel Leung lands her first best supporting actress award for In Broad Daylight role.
Two crime films Johnnie To shot in the early 2000s changed the game for the genre in Hong Kong – 2003’s PTU, starring Lam Suet and Simon Yam, and 2004’s Breaking News with Richie Jen and Nick Cheung.
The second month of the Chinese calendar and Wood Dragon year 2024 is represented by the Rabbit, whose representatives include Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Lionel Messi and Albert Einstein
A charismatic Chung Suet-ying stars in coming-of-age comedy The Lyricist Wannabe as a woman who tries – and continually fails – to become a Cantopop songwriter.
Jet Li reinvented himself in the 1990s from a period kung fu movie star to a modern action hero. We look at three of his gun fu films fusing firearms and fighting, before he left Hong Kong for the US.
Selling high-quality, low-priced food, Hong Kong’s numerous cooked-food centres are the understated masters of the local culinary scene, but we must keep loving them, or risk losing them.
The inaugural WestK FunFest, at Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District this spring, will feature a range of Cantonese Opera events among its diverse 150-programme schedule, to promote the art form.
Arts precinct authority chief Henry Tang appeals to government for decision on proposed funding plan soon.
From singer to actor to director, Stephen Fung has worked with Marvel’s Paul Rudd, is close friends with Daniel Wu and married Shu Qi – we look at the story of the prolific Hong Kong showbiz figure.
Ann Hui’s The Secret (1979), based on a real-life double murder case, helped usher in the Hong Kong New Wave cinema movement, while it was also one of the few women-led films at the time.