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Chris Wood

Can anyone be funny? Yes, says general manager of Hong Kong club The Riff, comedian Andy Curtain, who will be helping aspiring comics hone their craft.

When did validating an account get so complicated, wonders journalist, as he realises refusal to provide personal information can lead to his HSBC account being restricted.

Gladys Yang studied at Oxford University, where she became the first person to graduate in Chinese Literature and also met her husband, before returning to China to teach and later translate some of the nation’s finest authors into English

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The South China Morning Post’s archives reveal how Hong Kong and the Allies celebrated after the armistice that ended the first world war was signed on November 11, 1918

James Edward Walsh, was arrested in Shanghai in 1958 and sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment for ‘plotting to overthrow the new China’. His early release was seen as a ‘significant step in the thawing of Sino-US relations’

The middle sister of famous Shanghainese trio the Soong sisters, Soong Chingling was the first woman to become vice-president of the People’s Republic of China

The midnight event, which saw dozens of teenagers scrambling up 60-foot bamboo towers to pick buns, ended in tragedy after one of the towers collapsed, bringing a second one with it

Of two Hong Kong mountaineers who set out to climb Mount Everest, only one – Cham Yick-kai – made it to the top, just in time to celebrate his 33rd birthday

The pop idol leapt to his death from the 24th floor of the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Central on April 1, 2003, leaving thousands of fans shocked and devastated

The discovery of the bodies of two Singaporean brothers, heirs to a goldsmith’s chain, encased in cement at a Causeway Bay flat followed their kidnapping and the tabling of a ransom demand with a photo of a severed arm – not theirs

Did The Peninsula ‘beat’ the Mandarin Oriental? And who came out on top - Times Square or Harbour City? Instagram data shines a light on Hongkongers’ behaviour over Lunar New Year

The Happy Valley inferno remains ‘one of the most terrible calamities in the history of Hongkong’, as the South China Morning Post described it a century ago

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Often described as the City of Darkness, the fate of this 2.8 hectare plot of lawlessness, one of the most densely populated places on the planet, was sealed in 1987 when China gave approval for its demolition

How the Post reported the breakthrough 1969 operation on 39-year-old ferry worker, who received lifesaving organ from a woman 20 years his junior

Hong Kong Sinfonietta is behind inaugural competition to nurture global talent, and its principal guest conductor, Christoph Poppen, looks forward to discovering some new stars

Action by stable boys at Sha Tin racecourse in dispute over pay led to three cancelled meetings before an intransigent Jockey Club manager quit, ending the stand-off

The killing of a Chinese woman on a sampan and a four-year-old were deemed particularly heinous having been committed by ‘a class superior’ – two Americans and a Swede

The pontiff was in Hong Kong for all of three hours, during which time the 73-year-old preached to many of the colony’s Catholics and delivered a special message to China

When Alexandra Manley, investment banker and former Island School girl, wed Prince Joachim of Denmark in 1995 it seemed like a fairy tale; as we later reported, their marriage was not to last

The supersonic airliner that would later crash in Paris, ending the Concorde era, arrived in Hong Kong 41 years ago with, among its passengers, a certain Mrs Marcos on a shopping trip from Manila