https://www.scmp.com/rss/328385/feed An introverted journalist, Hong Kong-bred Chermaine Lee pushes her boundaries every day to cover political, social, environmental issues. Her bylines appear in SCMP, Washington Post, BBC, CNN, Thomson Reuters, Deutsche Welle, BuzzFeed, among others. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Chef Sunny Zie lived a lifetime in those seven days. Cooking non-stop, he says, he survived on barely any food and no more than nine hours’ sleep in total on a cold, tiled floor, on the verge of liver failure. “I was afraid that if I ate too much I would fall into a relaxed state and then a deep sleep. But I had to stay awake to cook for the protesters and help them recharge their batteries,” Zie says. The 39-year-old Hong Kong chef remembers his “cooking battle” in a Hong Kong Polytechnic... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/3109228/hong-kong-protests-chef-polyu-siege-recalls-trauma-cooking-more-1000?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/3109228/hong-kong-protests-chef-polyu-siege-recalls-trauma-cooking-more-1000?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 10 Nov 2020 23:15:19 +0000 A mere 3,144 of Hong Kong’s 7.5 million people are African, or of African descent, according to the 2016 Population By-census. But in the past five years, a massive 492 complaints of racial discrimination against them were lodged with the city’s equality watchdog. In reality, that may be a conservative measure of discrimination. A 2016 study by the Equal Opportunities Commission revealed that many members of ethnic minorities in Hong Kong would not consider filing a complaint, worried that they... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3095154/what-its-be-black-and-african-hong-kong-there?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3095154/what-its-be-black-and-african-hong-kong-there?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 02 Aug 2020 02:15:05 +0000 Macy felt great. Alan, the man she was dating, was good looking and apparently lived a life of luxury. They had met on the dating website Coffee Meets Bagel, then twice in person. He had seemed interested in getting to know her, Macy says. The “tall, handsome gentleman” told her he worked in marketing, and his Instagram feed opened a window on his luxury lifestyle. All seemed to be going well, until he asked her to join him on a visit to a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner. “He asked me... https://www.scmp.com/society/dating-horror-scammers-target-love-seekers-hong-kong/article/3018318?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/society/dating-horror-scammers-target-love-seekers-hong-kong/article/3018318?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 12 Jul 2019 09:04:36 +0000 Macy felt great. Alan, the man she was dating, was good looking and apparently lived a life of luxury. They had met on the dating website Coffee Meets Bagel, then twice in person. He had seemed interested in getting to know her, Macy says. The “tall, handsome gentleman” told her he worked in marketing and his Instagram feed opened a window on his luxury lifestyle. All seemed to be going well until he asked her to join him on a visit to a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner. “He asked me to... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/family-relationships/article/3017972/hong-kong-dating-scam-sales-agents-pose-dates-sell?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/family-relationships/article/3017972/hong-kong-dating-scam-sales-agents-pose-dates-sell?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 11 Jul 2019 23:45:11 +0000 Living on leftovers, 69-year-old Wong has been sleeping on the streets of Hong Kong for more than a year. Wong, who requests anonymity, moved to the city from China’s southern Guangdong province when he was in his 20s, amid a wave of migration to the city. He worked in temporary jobs, but gambled away his savings. Homeless in Hong Kong: life on a footbridge Social workers have offered Wong clothes and other necessities, and he is eligible to apply for public housing, but he has turned his back... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/article/2186753/homeless-hong-kong-why-men-account-nearly-nine-10-street?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/article/2186753/homeless-hong-kong-why-men-account-nearly-nine-10-street?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 19 Feb 2019 10:47:12 +0000 Ophelia escapes from Hong Kong for one to two months every summer. The 34-year-old clay artist has been suffering from eczema since the age of three. She cannot bear the city’s hot and humid summer climate, so she flies to Europe to prevent her condition from getting worse. UN climate report flags life-or-death warning, doubts we’ll rise to the challenge “It seems my skin is much better in cold climates and the heat just makes it worse. Sometimes I have bad flare-ups all over my body that are... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/article/2168006/climate-change-bad-your-mental-health-and-situation-will?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/article/2168006/climate-change-bad-your-mental-health-and-situation-will?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 12 Oct 2018 10:45:15 +0000 Embarrassed but fascinated, Eva first stumbled across hentai porn at the age of 15 while looking for video games on the internet. Since then the Hong Kong office worker, who was born and raised in the city and requested anonymity, has developed a passion for the genre of Japanese anime that translates as “perverse sexual desire”. Hentai has many subgenres that, among others, can feature things such as exaggerated sex organs, bestiality, lolicon (sexual attraction to pre-teen girls), dickgirls... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/families/article/2161860/why-do-people-love-hentai-japanese-anime-porn-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/families/article/2161860/why-do-people-love-hentai-japanese-anime-porn-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 29 Aug 2018 13:30:15 +0000