Like a school trip for grown-ups: Hong Kong Philharmonic tours Europe

22 Apr 2024 - 2:33PM

A tour planned to milk HK Phil’s 2019 Gramophone orchestra of the year win, but delayed by Covid-19, finally happened. Post Magazine joined players on the road

UMP Hong Kong camp members, Chris James (top left), Gaston Pong (centre, blonde) and Chiyo (bottom right, glasses). Photo: UMP Hong Kong

They’ve written for BTS, Tia Ray – and they combined in Hong Kong

A recent songwriting camp in Hong Kong brought together young talent who have written BTS, Tia Ray, Priscilla Abby and more to create all-but-guaranteed chart-toppers. We spoke to three of them.

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At Blue Bottle’s Hong Kong International Airport kiosk, there are no espresso machines. Instead, the company sells what it calls craft instant espresso. Photo: Blue Bottle

Brewed awakening: can Blue Bottle’s instant coffee match the real thing?

Before the dalgona trend, coffee nerds and purists turned their noses up at instant coffee granules – now, some are making their own. Can Blue Bottle’s instant espresso match the real thing?

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Rifugio Coldai in the early morning, the night after a big storm, Dolomites of northern Italy, 2024. Photo: Victoria Burrows

A hike that’s not for the faint of heart: adventure in Italy’s Dolomites

A hike through Italy’s soaring Dolomites is an occasionally terrifying reminder of our fleeting time on Earth, but comes with some jaw-dropping views.

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From a former mining town in Bodie State Historic Park (pictured) in the US to a French village that stands as a memorial to a wartime massacre, nine ghost towns to visit around the world. Photo: Shutterstock

Suddenly abandoned or gradually emptied, 9 of the world’s ghost towns to see

From an abandoned diamond mining town in Namibia to a Hong Kong village where ghost ‘sightings’ have been reported, to a town in Ukraine emptied by nuclear disaster, 9 ghost towns to see.

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OPINION

Lisa Lim

Like a school trip for grown-ups: Hong Kong Philharmonic tours Europe

They’ve written for BTS, Tia Ray – and they combined in Hong Kong

Brewed awakening: can Blue Bottle’s instant coffee match the real thing?

A hike that’s not for the faint of heart: adventure in Italy’s Dolomites

Suddenly abandoned or gradually emptied, 9 of the world’s ghost towns to see

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Language Matters | Japanese ‘katsu’, from English ‘cutlet’, now English word in its own right

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Then & Now | When Scots were deployed to Hong Kong defences named after roads in London

Reflections | The pitfalls of travelling on passports issued by Malaysia and Singapore

Home from Home | Where are all the bees and butterflies? UK’s many wildlife worries

Then & Now | Northern Thai cemetery’s surprising links to old Hong Kong

Reflections | Move over, soba. After oodles of udon on a trip to Japan, I’m a convert

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Home from Home | As Hong Kong hits 31 degrees, think of us still enduring UK winter

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Reflections | Standard Chinese script unified China, yet we can’t make a universal plug?

Language Matters | Purple’s roots, from sea snails to Caesar to its association with grandeur

Destinations known | Australasia loses appeal as a business travel destination. And for tourists?

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