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New world record set for largest ensemble performance of traditional Indonesian angklung

Video | Indonesia breaks world record for largest Angklung performance

9 Aug 2023 - 12:00PM

Northern Metropolis

Video | Hong Kong sawmill hopes for more ‘final days’

26 Sep 2022 - 3:57PM

Video | Afghan Buddhist city at risk of vanishing

5 Jul 2022 - 12:30PM

Religion in China

Video | Ancient Buddhist statues shine like gold

8 Jun 2022 - 4:30PM

Ancient Buddhist statues discovered with traces of gold, silver and coloured glass

Opinion | Ukraine war shows need to digitise cultural history before it’s too late

We have the technology to protect and preserve our precious cultural heritage for generations to come. To make our shared culture preservable, we need to make it shareable, and NFTs give us this ability.

4 May 2022 - 1:15PMvideocam

Hong Kong property

Shaw Brothers’ Movietown to turn into flats, villas under Fosun plan

There is rising interest in Hong Kong to redevelop heritage projects, using the prestige and cache of such buildings to enhance the developers’ brands

20 Apr 2022 - 6:24PM

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Property projects touting ‘preservation’ sprout up across China

Real estate developments that combine an element of preservation are becoming popular in China, with some companies taking a keen interest in such projects.

9 Mar 2022 - 8:30AM

Swire Properties is undertaking a commercial project in the historic heart of Xian, Shaanxi province. Photo: Reuters

Cultural Preservation

Language Matters | The wonder of Wordle is the versions in other languages word game inspired

Wordle, the daily word game, is now being played in major world languages such as Hindi, Chinese, Arabic and Indonesian, and invented languages such as Star Wars’ Klingon and The Lord of the Rings’ Quenya.

25 Feb 2022 - 5:15AM

China looks to strengthen protection for cultural relics

Officials will now be judged on how they help protect the country’s heritage and local authorities are being urged to promote cultural tourism.

22 Feb 2022 - 9:00AMvideocam

Hong Kong photographers

Bright lights, big city: photo exhibition recalls a neon-lit Hong Kong

Hong Kong’s neon lights and other disappearing cultural icons are the subject of Nostalgic Time, a photo exhibition in the city by Justin Wong.

27 Jan 2022 - 5:15PM

End Of Work, one of the images of neon-lit Hong Kong streets featured in Justin Wong’s exhibition Nostalgic Time in Sha Tin. Photo: Justin Wong

Ghosts of the past haunt Malaysian town some see as a future tourist draw

A Malaysian ‘ghost town’ wrestles with the pros and cons of becoming a tourist attraction, as some elderly residents continue to cling to the past.

7 Jan 2022 - 4:02PM

Building arches in Papan, Malaysia. Photo: Philippe Durant

As Bangkok’s old station closes, new rail hub with planned link to China opens

For decades, Bangkok’s stately Hua Lumphong terminus has welcomed weary workers, travellers and backpackers to Thailand’s capital but a US$4.8 billion replacement built with a planned high-speed rail link to Laos and China in mind has put the 105-year-old landmark’s future in doubt.

24 Dec 2021 - 7:42PM

Living heritage of Hong Kong

Latest technology to help preserve Hong Kong heritage sites

Secretary for Development says Hong Kong’s Architectural Services Department ‘needs to go with the times’ to improve the effectiveness of conservation work.

19 Dec 2021 - 6:49PM

Video | Nepal seeks to bring stolen gods home

2 Dec 2021 - 1:30PM

‘They are gods to us’: Nepal seeks to bring home stolen artefacts from the West

Hong Kong property

Asia’s old becomes hip as heritage buildings get multimillion makeovers

Heritage buildings are not guarantees of premium rental fees, because the deciding factors are ultimately the location, and the dynamics of market demand and supply, analysts said.

24 Nov 2021 - 7:52AM

Tai Kwun, as the colonial era police station compound is called, during a media preview on 9 May 2018. Photo: Nora Tam

Mid-Autumn Festival

Tai Hang’s fire dragon dance, a Hong Kong Mid-Autumn Festival tradition

The fire dragon dance, performed for three nights every year at the Mid-Autumn Festival in Tai Hang for over 140 years, was born of a plague that swept what was then a fishing village.

20 Sep 2021 - 9:30AMvideocam

Lessons from China's history

Reflections | Quanzhou, Chinese trading hub wrecked by foreigners’ uprising

Newly added to Unesco’s World Heritage List, Quanzhou in southeast China was a bustling port city that drew travellers Ibn Battuta and Marco Polo in the 14th century. Soon after their visits came its ruin.

24 Aug 2021 - 12:52PM

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African dance teacher, influencer and TVB show winner: meet Anisha Thai

Afrobeats stars Yemi Alade and Patoranking are fans of Anisha Thai’s Afrodance videos on Instagram, she’s been a coach on French TV reality show Les Anges and won a TVB contest – now she’s quit her Hong Kong day job to devote herself to dance.

5 Aug 2021 - 5:22AM

Image of Anisha Thai (L) in Los Angeles, California

Credit: Intsagram / @anishathai

Destinations known | What happens to tourism if Macau is ‘gifted’ the Chinese island of Hengqin?

If China hands over Hengqin island to next-door Macau, as growing media chatter suggests, it would boost tourism – but of the non-gaming kind.

2 Aug 2021 - 11:39AM

Unesco debates World Heritage red flag for Great Barrier Reef

United Nations cultural body could strip Liverpool and an African game reserve of World Heritage status and slap at-risk label on World Heritage sites including Great Barrier Reef and Venice.

16 Jul 2021 - 2:10PM

Video | New Colosseum floor to offer ‘gladiator view’

4 May 2021 - 3:45PM

New hi-tech floor for Rome’s Colosseum will offer a ‘gladiator view’ by 2023

Living heritage of Hong Kong

Here are six Hong Kong buildings and sites missing out on preservation

The Post explores some sites around the city worthy of research and consideration for grading.

5 Apr 2021 - 10:31AM

Kowloon Flour Mills in Kwun Tong. Photo: Edmond So

Video | Inside Hong Kong’s century-old clock tower

31 Mar 2021 - 5:13PM

New lease of life on drawing board for old, rundown Hong Kong mansion

Built in the 1930s by a Hakka gold merchant, the 27-room Kong Ha Wai ended up being used as a factory, landscape nursery and warehouse.

28 Mar 2021 - 1:13PM

Hong Kong culture

Opinion | Can Central Market escape becoming ‘just another shopping mall’?

While commerce and responsible design are not necessarily incompatible, unlike other revitalisation projects in the area, Central Market will be operated by the Urban Renewal Authority and a private developer. Will they be able to resist the purely profit motive?

25 Feb 2021 - 11:17AMvideocam

The Bauhaus building of Central Market dates back to 1938. While it is far from being statement architecture, its merits lie in its historical significance. Photo: CWH

Video | Egypt finds 3,000-year-old treasures

18 Jan 2021 - 1:03PM

Egypt unveils treasures at ancient site in find that ‘rewrites history’

Video | Demolition of Hong Kong old reservoir halted after calls for heritage assessment

29 Dec 2020 - 3:03AM

Video | Saving Bollywood heritage in Pakistan

16 Nov 2020 - 4:10PM

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