The Australian restaurateur behind Hong Kong’s beloved but now closed M at the Fringe and M on the Bund, in Shanghai, reveals what it takes to succeed in the restaurant business and the challenges opening in China posed.

A chance encounter outside a Columbia University library in New York planted the seed for global movement celebrating multiculturalism.

Matteo Ricci The Musical might not be the show Hong Kong wanted, but, according to those who brought it to the stage, it’s the one we needed.

Hugh Zimmern, architect and owner of Ping Pong Gintoneria, talks about creating Dai Bing, his cool new venture in Sheung Wan.

Refurbished Haw Par Mansion, in Hong Kong’s Tai Hang neighbourhood, is inspiring designers to come up with objects inspired by its history, such as scented balls, and a vase made of carpeting that can absorb sound.

The ‘lippy’ former actress is investigating where her Chinese-American family fitted into the racially segregated society of the southern United States.

The picturesque coastal village has found fame as a filming location for the wildly popular HBO fantasy show, frequented by tour groups that follow the same predictable path and miss out on some of the loveliest aspects of the area.

Located an hour’s drive from Shanghai, the ‘earthscraper’ is built into the side of an abandoned quarry

The German artist’s disturbing works full of grotesque beasts and old-fashioned characters are often described as surreal, but for Rauch – whose parents died when he was four weeks old – it seems more personal than that.

Carolyn Choa’s adaptation of Yasunari Kawabata’s 1964 tale Beauty and Sadness will premier in Hong Kong next month, with collaborators including renowned director David Pountney and Oscar-winning set designer Tim Yip.

With Ping Pong Pig, illustrated by Harry Harrison, Sarah Brennan, a Hong Kong author and small publisher, completes a charming series of children’s books with a Chinese twist.

Twenty years after British charity Care for Children began advising China on foster care, its founder Robert Glover talks about fostering miracles, moving from Guernsey to Shanghai with his wife and six children in 1998 and why they miss China.

Treat yourself to a rainy-season bargain stay at the Eastern & Oriental Hotel, one of a quartet opened by the indefatigable Sarkies Brothers across Southeast Asia in the late 19th century.

The newly minted A-lister Henry Golding talks about how his once-embarrassing Malaysian heritage is now a source of joy.

With nearly 6,500 reviews under his belt, Brad Reynolds – who runs an English language institute in the city – reveals how he got hooked on travel, and what his passion has to do with fishing expeditions he took with his father

Japanese contemporary artist’s new exhibition at Gagosian Hong Kong blends fine art with commercial media in another example of his knack for blurring the lines between what is regarded as high and low art.

Having changed hands last year, an uncertain future awaits ‘the pink house’ at 5 Pollock’s Path, which was home to the Brown family for more than 50 years and is overflowing with Hong Kong history

Byron Mann insisted his home city was portrayed accurately – and that the Cantonese language took a major role – in the American action film

Student advocate Chessy Prout recalls growing up in Asia, her legal battle for justice and why she outed herself to become a champion for abused young women globally

Fanny Pereire, who adds exposition to a film through her choice of art, has worked on Wall Street 2, Trainwreck and the upcoming Ocean’s 8

American artist Sarah Morris muses on the restless spirit that inspired her films and paintings ahead of her show at White Cube in Hong Kong in May

AI, DNA editing and life beyond Earth on the agenda at Melon, an event that blurs the line between fantasy and reality

The polarising perfectionist and blockbuster creator muses on the roles of viewer and creator ahead of an appearance at David Zwirner’s Art Basel booth

Using the city’s streets as a catwalk, domestic helpers step out in Sustainable Sunday Couture created from everyday items, including coffee sachets, chocolate wrappers and shoelaces

Bea Johnson’s simple-living epiphany has had profound impact on everything from her flexible wardrobe to shared toiletries and creative make-up

Author and journalist Jonathan Fenby reflects on cheating death multiple times, his eventful editorship of Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post and how he accidentally ended up feeding the West’s appetite for China books

From his jungle lair in Yuen Long, in the city’s New Territories, the eccentric force of nature and living work of art – who is now possibly 70 years old, possibly not – continues to create and surprise

Isabel Chao’s 2008 visit to her childhood home sparked an idea for a memoir on life in pre-Communist Shanghai. Chao, who co-wrote the book with her daughter, explains why she decided not to focus on the tragic

Swiss woman Katharina Zellweger, a Stanford visiting fellow and long-term Hong Kong resident, talks about her decades visiting the reclusive country, her new NGO and her North Korean poster collection

‘I prefer them now to when I made them’, says British artist about show of early works featuring preserved animals, his first in Hong Kong since 2011, and quips he’s ‘the patron saint of tourism’ in Venice, site of his latest provocative show