The first female music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Marin will conduct the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra in Hong Kong. She gives her thoughts on touring China and the state of classical music today.

Directed by Li Liuyi in collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark will come to Hong Kong in March as part of the Hong Kong Arts Festival.

Having lost a relative to cancer, prize-winning coder Scotty Kwok is itching to use AI to aid early diagnosis of the disease, but start-up he co-founded has no medical clients, with Hong Kong hospitals stuck in the digital dark ages.

China Photo Studio in Beijing has been taking photos of China’s elite, as well as weddings and other events, since 1937. The studio has survived a number of upheavals in its business and competition from new chains.

A prized delicacy in Japan, where poisonous varieties are prepared by skilled chefs, pufferfish are giving spicy crayfish a run for their money in Beijing. That’s because Chinese fisheries have bred the poison out of them.

Digital immersive display at the museum brings royal festivities for the Spring Festival vividly to life; exhibition also features a static display of over 800 cultural relics, including Lunar New Year decorations.

The Wandering Earth, starring Wolf Warrior’s Wu Jing, is a sci-fi movie of epic scale that could inspire more quality Chinese sci-fi blockbusters after a frankly embarrassing line of substandard productions.

• AI can save up to two years in pharmaceutical research and development time, says CEO of drug-development company Insilico Medicine, which is moving its headquarters to Hong Kong.

The Chinese box office took more than US$800 million in the first week of Lunar New Year in 2018. From comedy to sci-fi to animation, these eight new releases for the holiday season are highly anticipated.

Xu Xiaodong famously knocked out a tai chi master who claimed mystical powers. He says that Chinese martial arts skills are 40 years behind Western MMA techniques, but that his efforts to modernise them have been thwarted.

While Chinese audiences flock to small-budget productions by young up-and-coming directors, there are also signs that blockbusters featuring A-list directors and stars are losing their power over film-goers.

Guides such as Meituan-Dianping’s Black Pearl book and the Flavours food app are known for adopting a more Chinese perspective on food quality. Plus: Black Pearl’s 10 top rated restaurants in China.

Patriotic hit Operation Red Sea, franchise comedy Detective Chinatown 2, and a Chinese Dallas Buyers Club took top honours, eclipsing Hollywood films; Hong Kong stars had a hand in some of the worst performers.

Big Bang join a growing list of stars, including Bob Dylan, Edison Chen and Jim Carrey, who have branched out by holding art exhibitions

When KFC opened in Beijing in 1987, it was the first US fast food outlet in any communist country. Tony Wang, who led the project, introduced new concepts, including hygiene and the art of queuing.

My Neighbor Totoro, by Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli, shown in China three decades after its initial worldwide release, was second biggest box office draw there over the weekend. The film earned more than US$418,000 in three days.

Chinese filmmakers hope to emulate the West’s hugely successful film and television franchises, known in China as super IPs. Some fear that poor-quality adaptations tarnish the original material from which they are drawn.

Millions of educated Chinese have left cities to take up farming, inspired to change agriculture or disenchanted with urban life; they practise organic farming and water conservation, and help neighbours to do the same.

Indian director R. Balki says recent successes are because Indian and Chinese cultures, especially their conservative rural values, can be very similar, with ‘Dangal’ especially sparking a wave of Indian-movie fever.

Romantic comedy that was a worldwide summer hit took less than US$1 million on its opening weekend in Chinese cinemas.

Fashion show director Jerry Zhang fell in love with the business in the early 1980s. He started China’s first modelling agency and has launched a number of Chinese brands overseas.

'Social' egg freezing allows women to harvest eggs when they are most fertile and store them for longer and more cheaply. Doctor behind the programme says by the time most women turn to IVF in their 30s the quality of their eggs is declining.

A former Buddhist monk has made films about the many uses to which nomads put yak dung, and the ecological value of the pika, an animal on the Tibet Plateau. He is one of the beneficiaries of a programme to teach villagers how to make films.

There is no shortage of restaurants serving the classic imperial dish in China’s capital. Here are our favourite five places, which all serve delicious duck with crisp skin and tender meat.

With its first hotel opening in Beijing in 2015, NUO plans to expand to cities from New York to Kuala Lumpur over the next 15 years, providing a home away from home for Chinese travellers.

Insensitive and offensive adverts attract huge numbers of complaints, both online and in the media. Advertisers say they are easy targets and people will complain about anything.

Reputation of the action superstar ‘severely harmed’ by a blog post accusing Yen of ruining new film Iceman: The Time Traveler, a letter from Yen’s legal team says.

A new crop of high-quality original documentaries made in China has won praise and enlightened audiences at home and abroad. Streaming giants iQiyi, Youku and Tencent Video have invested heavily in higher production values.

Filipino-Italian model Gutierrez talks about the backlash she faced after accusing Weinstein of sexual misconduct, how it forced her to move to the Philippines and why she wants to spread #MeToo message there.

China’s censors have long made a mockery of the country’s horror genre, toning down monsters and forcing laughably bad plots. But these five gems slipped the net and really show the macabre creativity of Chinese directors.