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Social media addiction is not a recognised mental health problem, but affects adults and children alike. Photo: Shutterstock

Entertainment

Are you addicted to social media, is it a problem and what can you do about it?

Social media addiction is not officially registered as a mental illness, but it affects adults and children. Here are tips on cutting down.

Review | Double Happiness: Liu Kuan-ting, Jennifer Yu lead clever wedding comedy

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These Korean cafes in London are exploding in popularity. Here’s why

Arts

‘Unconventional bodies’: inclusive dance team’s upcoming Hong Kong show

Unusual Symptoms’ experimental dance project Harmonia challenges audience biases about the human body.

Harmonia, performed by the inclusive dance theatre group Unusual Symptoms, stars performers with congenital limb differences, dwarfism and wheelchair needs – and challenges audience biases about the human body. Photo: Unusual Symptoms
Harmonia, performed by the inclusive dance theatre group Unusual Symptoms, stars performers with congenital limb differences, dwarfism and wheelchair needs – and challenges audience biases about the human body. Photo: Unusual Symptoms

Health & Wellness

What is the best brain training test to reduce dementia risk?

Study finds speed-based brain training better than memory or reasoning training in reducing risk of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia.

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Health & Wellness

How playing Tetris can help reduce traumatic memory flashbacks: study

Playing Tetris while recalling distressing memories reduced intrusive flashbacks for healthcare workers in a ‘breakthrough’ trial.

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‘I could not walk’: how exercise helped a mother manage serious knee pain

With surgery off the table, Hong Kong-based Kavita Biswas forced herself to strengthen the muscles around the knee.

Kavita Biswas could barely walk short distances before she started physiotherapy and resistance training to strengthen the muscles around her knee. Now the osteoarthritis sufferer can walk for up to 45 minutes at a time and manages her daily life independently. Photo: Kavita Biswas
Kavita Biswas could barely walk short distances before she started physiotherapy and resistance training to strengthen the muscles around her knee. Now the osteoarthritis sufferer can walk for up to 45 minutes at a time and manages her daily life independently. Photo: Kavita Biswas

Entertainment

How these 2 films became classics of Hong Kong’s Chinese folk opera cinema

Love Eterne and Dream of the Red Chamber are two very different ‘huangmei diao’ films from legendary Hong Kong director Li Han-hsiang.

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Film & TV

One Battle After Another triumphs with 6 Bafta prizes as Oscars loom

Paul Thomas Anderson’s political thriller dominates UK awards, while newcomer Robert Aramayo stuns Hollywood heavyweights for best actor.

Gadgets

Apple pushes forward on AI-powered smart glasses, camera AirPods and pendant

All three devices depend on a camera system and will be linked to Apple’s iPhone and built around the Siri digital assistant, insiders say.

Apple’s AirPods and AirPods Max. Apple is working on AirPods with extended AI capabilities that would be equipped with cameras, according to company insiders.

Travel & Leisure

The Shiba Inu story: where does the popular Japanese hunting dog come from?

One woman’s research has sparked interest in the heritage of Shiba Inus and local revitalisation in the city where the first one lived.

Mayumi Kawabe smiles in front of the stone statue of Ishi Go, an early ancestor of today’s Shiba Inu breed, in Masuda, Shimane, Japan. At the end of 2016, she welcomed Sunny, a two-month-old puppy, into her home. Photo: Kyodo
Mayumi Kawabe smiles in front of the stone statue of Ishi Go, an early ancestor of today’s Shiba Inu breed, in Masuda, Shimane, Japan. At the end of 2016, she welcomed Sunny, a two-month-old puppy, into her home. Photo: Kyodo

Health & Wellness

Is magnetic heating technology a new weapon in the fight against cancer?

America’s Mayo Clinic is testing Israeli technology that targets solid tumours with fast-rising heat in a process it calls hyperthermia.

K-drama

Latest K-drama casting news about Lee Je-hoon, Ryoo Seung-ryong and more

Lee is confirmed as one of the leads of There’s a Winning Chance, while Ryoo is considering The Miracles of the Namiya General Store.

Health & Wellness

Burnout brought a CEO to breaking point. How to recognise the signs and fix it

Headhunting firm founder Oliver Rolfe became compulsively addicted to his work and felt ‘miserable, emotionally numb’ – but couldn’t stop.

Oliver Rolfe runs the London Marathon in 2025 to raise funds for the National Axial Spondyloarthritis Society. The CEO and founder of headhunting firm Spartan International suffered from burnout after throwing himself into his work and had to check into a rehab facility to get his life back on track. Photo: JustGiving

Entertainment

How Anthony Chen’s We Are All Strangers captures the beauty of Singapore

Singaporean director portrays ordinary folk with dignity in the final film in his ‘Growing Up’ trilogy with Yeo Yann Yann and Koh Jia Ler.

Yeo Yann Yann (left) in a still from We Are All Strangers, the third film in Anthony Chen’s “Growing Up” trilogy. Photo: Giraffe Pictures
Yeo Yann Yann (left) in a still from We Are All Strangers, the third film in Anthony Chen’s “Growing Up” trilogy. Photo: Giraffe Pictures

Chinese culture

Feng shui tips for all 12 Chinese zodiac signs for the Year of the Horse 2026

Feng shui master Andrew Kwan shares where each Chinese zodiac sign can place items for good luck in the Year of the Fire Horse.

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Entertainment

Why does Hollywood keep remaking old stories like Wuthering Heights?

Much like superhero reboots targeted at men, period drama remakes like Wuthering Heights continue to find favour with female audiences.

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Health & Wellness

‘I could not walk’: how exercise helped a mother manage serious knee pain

With surgery off the table, Hong Kong-based Kavita Biswas forced herself to strengthen the muscles around the knee.

Kavita Biswas could barely walk short distances before she started physiotherapy and resistance training to strengthen the muscles around her knee. Now the osteoarthritis sufferer can walk for up to 45 minutes at a time and manages her daily life independently. Photo: Kavita Biswas
Kavita Biswas could barely walk short distances before she started physiotherapy and resistance training to strengthen the muscles around her knee. Now the osteoarthritis sufferer can walk for up to 45 minutes at a time and manages her daily life independently. Photo: Kavita Biswas

Chinese culture

Reflections | As Kim Jong-un grooms daughter to rule, a Chinese princess’s fatal ambition

Princess Anle’s radical petition to inherit the throne set in motion a chain of events that would see her decapitated in her own boudoir.

Chinese Zodiac

Feng shui advice for Dragons for a lucky, healthy Year of the Horse 2026

Feng shui master Andrew Kwan shares where Dragons can put auspicious items at home and work for fortune in the Year of the Fire Horse.

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Chinese culture

Feng shui tips for all 12 Chinese zodiac signs for the Year of the Horse 2026

Feng shui master Andrew Kwan shares where each Chinese zodiac sign can place items for good luck in the Year of the Fire Horse.

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Customers choose colored glaze snake handicrafts for the coming Chinese New Year, the Year of Snake, in Xiye Colored Glaze Studio in Boshan district, Zibo city, Shandong province, China, on Jan. 9, 2025. With a long history of colored glaze, Boshan is regarded as China’s Hometown of Colored Glaze and has 12 colored glaze enterprises and 65 art studios. (Xinhua) 新华社照片，淄博（山东），2025年1月9日 1月9日，消费者在淄博市博山区西冶工坊展销厅内挑选蛇年主题琉璃工艺品。 春节临近，山东省淄博市博山区的琉璃生产企业推出众多蛇年主题创意琉璃制品，受到市场青睐。博山区被誉为“中国琉璃之乡“，琉璃生产历史悠久，当地已发展琉璃生产企业12家、工作室65个。 新华社记者 朱峥 摄
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The Tower of Heavenly Success with the Tan River in the background, in Majianglong, Taishan. Photo: Graeme Kennedy

The Chinese city where waffles, watchtowers and world history meet

Guangdong’s ‘hometown of overseas Chinese’ is where architecture and cuisine created by returning émigrés reveal how culture flows both ways.

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Living area of the flat in Tsim Sha Tsui designed by GAAN. Photo: Eugene Chan

This Hong Kong home sleeps six – and still feels serene

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Chinese writer Hu Anyan pictured in People’s Park, Chengdu, China. Photo: Eric Mast

He thought his life was a failure. Then he wrote it down.

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Plaques that form part of the Benin Bronzes, which were taken from Africa by British troops in 1897, on display at The British Museum in London. Photo: Getty Images

Should museums return antiquities to their countries of origin? Some say no

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A girl spins a “wheel of fortune” outside the Che Kung Temple, in Sha Tin, on the third day of the Lunar New Year in 1986. Photo: SCMP Archives

In pictures: Hong Kong’s Lunar New Year obsession with good fortune

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Kinmedai with lemon leaf and zucchini at Ébauche. Photo: Ébauche

Hong Kong’s hottest openings, from Ébauche to the Hilton’s new Motto hotel

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