Kylie Knott

Assistant Editor on the Culture Desk with a focus on covering environmental and animal welfare issues.

Domestic helpers protesting for higher wages outside the Harbour Building in Central in August. Fifteen representatives from two of the most active helpers’ groups asked for a 24.7 per cent increase in their monthly wage to HK$5,500. Photo: Winson Wong

Lifestyle

The Hong Kong families who pay their domestic helpers the most

18 Sep 2018 - 4:28pm 11

Young consumers in China and Hong Kong are turning away from shark fin, but overseas Chinese are eating more, report finds. The only way to save oceans’ apex predator is to stop eating and trading in fins now, researchers say

Food & Drink

As China, Hong Kong eat less shark fin, overseas Chinese eat more

17 Sep 2018 - 8:03pm 8

Presented as photographs, a selection of tattoo-like daubings, inspired by traditional Shan shui paintings, to go on show in Sheung Wan

Arts & Music

Artist shows traditional Chinese landscapes on real human bodies

17 Sep 2018 - 8:05am

From video works to paintings to ink drawings, local artists explore the dark realities of love in this exhibition curated by Qu Chang at Para Site in Quarry Bay

Arts & Culture

Love in the spotlight in Crush art exhibition in Hong Kong

14 Sep 2018 - 6:15pm

Constance Wu as Rachel and Henry Golding as Nick in Crazy Rich Asians. A song from the film is now topping Spotify charts. Photo: Sanja Bucko/Warner Bros. Pictures

Music

Crazy Rich Asians song tops charts … but it was almost cut from film

13 Sep 2018 - 4:32pm 2

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Family & Relationships

Online dating scam victim opens her heart to spare others

10 Sep 2018 - 8:55pm 2

A dance show and drumming competition at last year’s Hong Kong Culture Festival.

Arts & Music

Four-month festival promotes Hong Kong’s unique cultural diversity

10 Sep 2018 - 8:01am

With 70 performers, workshops, open mics and a variety show, the Hong Kong International Laugh Festival is guaranteed to put a smile on your face

Arts & Culture

Hong Kong international comedy festival will have you in stitches

7 Sep 2018 - 1:02pm

Kim Kardashian leaves the West Wing of the White House after meeting with senior officials. Photo: TNS

Lifestyle

Kim, Cate, Leo ... celebrities who use their fame for good causes

6 Sep 2018 - 7:10pm 1

Although southern bluefin tuna is listed as critically endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, one was on show at Seafood Expo Asia. Photo: Gary Stokes

Food & Drink

Endangered bluefin tuna sold at Hong Kong expo, activist says

6 Sep 2018 - 9:09pm 2

One of the moon bears called Kim is fed through the cage that the bear has called home for the last 21 years.

Lifestyle

NGO rescues five moon bears caged for 21 years in Vietnam

3 Sep 2018 - 4:08pm

Chinese fashion designer Guo Pei will appear at Female Entrepreneurs Day on September 16. Photo: AFP

Lifestyle

From bondage to banking, events for Hong Kong women

3 Sep 2018 - 11:35am

Christina Matula, author of The Shadow In The Moon. Picture: Kylie Knott

Books

Mid-Autumn Festival legend brought to life in modern retelling

31 Aug 2018 - 11:24am

Sakura, who created the much-loved manga and anime series Chibi Maruko-chan, died of breast cancer aged 53, but other female manga artists will continue making their mark on the traditionally male-dominated industry

Culture

Japanese women manga artists who’ll keep spirit of Momoko Sakura alive

29 Aug 2018 - 11:01pm

SSP Lighthouse by José Macedo

Culture

Bamboo Scenes: a sneak peek at the latest urban photo exhibition

25 Aug 2018 - 1:30pm

Marcello Fonte in a scene from Dogman

Arts & Music

Cannes best actor winner heads to Hong Kong for Italian film festival

24 Aug 2018 - 5:48pm

Can’t decide where to have dinner? Sick of mum’s curfew? You need Karaoke Court, unconventional but legally binding arbitration; dreamed up by an arts-loving Singaporean lawyer, it’s coming to Hong Kong

Lifestyle

Song duel tradition inspires Karaoke Court for settling disputes

21 Aug 2018 - 6:31pm

Fanny Moritz, founder of eco-friendly e-commerce platform, wants to give sustainable living a seductive image overhaul

Short Reads

Zero waste is ‘sexy’, says Hong Kong entrepreneur

20 Aug 2018 - 8:03am

Staff at Kruger National Park in South Africa walking near the three-day-old carcass of a rhinoceros killed by poachers for its horn. Photo: AFP

Lifestyle

Surge in seizures of illegal wildlife goods as smugglers look to the skies

17 Aug 2018 - 5:23pm

Collection at the Hong Kong Maritime Museum includes a gold hat decorated with gems that was discovered in a Ming dynasty prince’s tomb and items from the shipwreck Nanhai No. 1

Culture

Never-seen-before objects shed light on China’s maritime silk routes

14 Aug 2018 - 6:03pm

Stephen Case launches exhibition featuring characters from Joel and Ethan Coen’s films

Arts & Music

Hong Kong-based caricaturist’s unique tribute to Coen brothers

13 Aug 2018 - 8:00am 1

Eight artists’ works at the Interpr8 exhibition at Hong Kong’s A2Z Art Gallery cover subjects including double standards in Hong Kong censorship, the dark side of President Duterte’s war on drugs, and Catholic themes of rebirth

Culture

Gossip, fortune, rebirth: Asian artists interpret meaning of number 8

12 Aug 2018 - 9:48am

Hong Kong is home to 3,330 plant species, more than 100 of which are poisonous. Photo: James Wendlinger

Health & Wellness

New guides help Hongkongers identify poisonous snakes and plants

12 Aug 2018 - 7:18pm

Wildlife crime group digs deep into illegal trade through Hong Kong and other Asian ports in the maw of the endangered totoaba fish, a trade that has doomed the vaquita, world’s smallest porpoise, to almost inevitable extinction.

Lifestyle

Criminal trade in fish maws to China puts Mexican porpoise in peril

8 Aug 2018 - 2:33pm

Eclectic programme of culture and opinion, screenings and workshop to celebrate ‘the power, beauty and freedom of being yourself’

Short Reads

Nine-day festival gives modern Hong Kong women the spotlight

6 Aug 2018 - 8:03am

Works by 27 artists, most of them new to Asia but including Hong Kong-based Vhils and photographer Wing Shya, are on show at six locations in Macau until September 9

Culture

Tour Macau as you explore striking, citywide art exhibition Alter Ego

3 Aug 2018 - 7:19pm

The “Home” exhibition will include works by Taiwan’s Chang Chien-chi. Picture: Magnum Photos

Short Reads

The meaning of home through the lenses of Magnum photographers

30 Jul 2018 - 10:17am

This month is a special treat for astronomy enthusiasts, with the longest total lunar eclipse of the century – and a blood moon – on July 28 coinciding with the time when Mars comes closest to the Earth

Travel & Leisure

Double treat for stargazers: longest lunar eclipse plus visible Mars

24 Jul 2018 - 10:48pm

James Hargraves hosts the port tour aboard the Jungle Jane.

Travel

A junk trip through Hong Kong’s container port? Sign me up

23 Jul 2018 - 8:00am

Frenchman brings a 2,500-year-old Chinese knife massage therapy to Hong Kong

Lifestyle

Frenchman brings a 2,500-year-old Chinese knife massage therapy to Hong Kong

21 Jul 2018 - 4:50pm

Dao liao practitioner Xavier Garnier with his knives at the Mandarin Oriental. Photo: Lea Li

Fashion & Beauty

An ancient Chinese treatment – with butcher’s knives? We have a stab

21 Jul 2018 - 2:00pm

Photographer Tracy Wong. Picture: Vanessa Li

Arts & Music

Soap recycling? Why you shouldn’t send the suds to landfill

16 Jul 2018 - 8:03am

Lau Wai has a new exhibition that uses computer graphics, stills, and video to depict the inauthentic Chinese characters Hollywood has featured in film down the years

Culture

Artist makes fun of Hollywood for its ridiculous Chinese characters

15 Jul 2018 - 8:19pm

Smoking opium with water pipes (circa 1880). Photo: courtesy of Wattis Fine Art

Culture

Rare images of 19th-century Hong Kong from Chinese photographer

2 Aug 2018 - 6:40pm 1

Star of a Wong Kar-wai movie and an icon of urban Hong Kong, Chungking Mansions is too often portrayed as unsafe and a den of vice. Don’t believe a word of it – or you’ll be missing out on some of the city’s best Indian food

Short Reads

Don’t swallow the lies about Chungking Mansions – try the curry

27 Jul 2018 - 12:59pm 14

Classic horror films to watch on Friday the 13th include The Evil Dead.

Film & TV

Seven chilling horror films to get you in the mood for Friday 13th

13 Jul 2018 - 9:27am

Scores of patients crowd the waiting hall of a clinic on Hong Kong Island during the influenza epidemic in July 1968. Photo: SCMP

Health & Wellness

How 1968’s deadly Hong Kong flu left more than one million dead

13 Jul 2018 - 3:19pm 2

There are almost 5,000 working elephants in Myanmar, more than half employed by state-run Myanmar Timber Enterprise to haul hardwood trees. However, an export ban put 1,000 elephants out of work. Some were killed, others were abandoned or sent to neighbouring countries

Culture

Artist Ai Weiwei visits Myanmar to help jobless elephants

12 Jul 2018 - 6:28pm 2

French street artist Zevs (Christopher Aguirre Schwarz) has an exhibition in Hong Kong. Photo: Xiaomei Chen

Culture

Graffiti artist Zevs talks about his famous dripping brand logos

10 Jul 2018 - 3:49pm

Iraqi British ‘starchitect’ died in 2016 with an impressive list of daring buildings to her name – and some equally stunning projects in the works. From China to Mexico, these five projects are set to open in the next couple of years

Lifestyle

Five unfinished projects designed by late architect Zaha Hadid

4 Jul 2018 - 2:45pm

A new app guides users around the Sai Ying Pun neighbourhood, highlighting traditional crafts businesses and famous shops.

Travel & Leisure

Amid gentrification, craftsmanship of Sai Ying Pun not forgotten

4 Jul 2018 - 10:16am

A green sea turtle lays eggs on Sham Wan beach in Lamma Island.

Lifestyle

Actors and activists fight to save Hong Kong’s endangered turtles

26 Jun 2018 - 8:40pm 3

Replacing the gut microbes of patients with healthy ones from donors can save lives in some cases and end acute discomfort in others, recent medical studies have shown. Hong Kong is doing its bit with Asia’s first commercial stool bank

Health & Wellness

How healthy poo saves lives and relieves irritable bowel syndrome

26 Jun 2018 - 9:43am 3

Women walk to a polling station in Lesotho, southern Africa, where they are barred from owning land independently. Photo: AP

Lifestyle

So Saudi women can drive – five other anti-women laws around the world

25 Jun 2018 - 5:59pm 2

You don’t need to be a baker to appreciate Hong Kong Bakery Carnival, the event will host parent-child workshops, demonstrations, tastings and more.

Food & Drink

If you love cakes, the first Hong Kong Bakers Carnival is for you

25 Jun 2018 - 8:45am

William Sargent is on a mission to change Hong Kong people’s perceptions of the much-maligned reptiles

Travel & Leisure

Snake safaris allow Hongkongers to get up close and lose their fear

23 Jun 2018 - 6:40pm

The pangolin that was spotted in Hong Kong’s New Territories this week. Photo: Steve Pheby

Lifestyle

Rare pangolin caught on video in Hong Kong – watch it here

19 Jun 2018 - 12:39pm 10