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This week, PostMag takes on an emerald brilliance with a cover designed to look like a “poison book” and stories destined to get under your skin. Illustration by Naomi Chan. Photo: Getty Images
Hong Kong

This week in PostMag: toxic tomes, a trip to Fifa World Cup host Mexico City and ‘Carmen’ in Kowloon

Our latest issue urges readers of Victorian-era books to beware, offers tips for football fans heading to Mexico and takes a look at the beloved opera ‘Carmen’ – with a Hong Kong twist.

Hong Kong

This week in PostMag: the HSBC Main Building turns 40, the Hong Kong Sevens and new beginnings

Art

This week in PostMag: artists from Spain, Hong Kong, Stockholm … and a farewell

Hong Kong

This week in PostMag: a focus on women in film, sport, science and life

For International Women’s Day, we look at women as wives and mistresses, as marine researchers, as athletes, and as battlers against perimenopause.

Elizabeth Lo, director of the Mistress Dispeller documentary, on the cover of this week’s PostMag print edition. Photo: Jocelyn Tam
Chinese culture

This week in PostMag: Lunar New Year and the meaning of home

As the Fire Horse approaches, this issue looks at the emotional pull of tradition – from mahjong tables to ancestral villages.

Macau

This week in PostMag: the many layers of Macau

This issue explores the profiles, places and passions that capture Macau’s past and present – from off-duty chefs to indefatigable storytellers.

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Hong Kong

This week in PostMag: a Cantopop dance revival and a dream trip to the Bahamas

DJ Fabsabs leads a joyful Cantopop resurgence, Singapore does art with intention, and sun-drenched escapism beckons.

The cover of this week’s print edition. Photo: Jocelyn Tam
Christmas

This week in PostMag: festive tables, Cantopop and Christmas lights

As the holidays arrive, we reflect on food, memory, music – and the Hong Kong rituals that still anchor the season.

Hong Kong

This week in PostMag: zines find their moment and Tasmania beckons

In the latest issue, we explore the city’s booming zine scene, and talk to author Lawrence Osborne about his Macau novel-turned-Netflix noir.

Women and gender

This week in PostMag: women in charge, Shaquille O’Neal and Aryna Sabalenka

In the latest issue, we talk to Hong Kong women CEOs, basketball legend turned global businessman Shaquille O’Neal, and world tennis No 1 Aryna Sabalenka.

American businessman and former basketball player Shaquille O’Neal graces our latest cover. Photo: courtesy Authentic Brands Group
Hong Kong

This week in PostMag: collection obsessions for vinyl, watches and furniture

Why do collectors collect? What fires their passion for that rare timepiece, that limited edition record, that work of art, or that piece of furniture?

Watch collector Kai Huang features on the cover of this week’s PostMag print edition. Photo: Jocelyn Tam
Hong Kong

This week in PostMag: tech-inspired art, a sex tape and fading neon signs

AI and tech meets the world of art, another of Hong Kong’s neon signs is taken down, we delve into Indonesia’s forgotten nutmeg history, and two more artists display their sex tape.

Hong Kong

This week in PostMag: the Mariners’ Club returns, bistros boom, and Miffy

Hong Kong’s Mariners’ Club returns as a neighbour to the luxury Kimpton hotel, China’s hottest new food trend, and a destination to rival Amsterdam.

Hong Kong

This week in PostMag: a farewell to Metropol Restaurant after 35 years

Cuban artist Alejandro Piñeiro Bello shows at Pace Gallery and Hong Kong bids a bittersweet goodbye to Metropol Restaurant.

It’s the end of an era for Metropol Restaurant in Hong Kong, which closed after 35 years. Photo: Jocelyn Tam
Hong Kong

This week in PostMag: from Hong Kong farmers to ‘aura farming’

We meet farmers weathering storms in Nam Chung, explore TikTok’s viral aura-boat craze, and taste Armenia’s reimagined traditions.

Nam Chung, in the northeastern New Territories of Hong Kong, features on PostMag’s cover this issue. Photo: Alexander Mak
Hong Kong

This week in PostMag: making rope skipping ‘cool’ and rediscovering Goa

Rope skipping may be finding a place in Hong Kong, while the layered history of Angkor continues to thrive, and Goa takes on new charm.

Sustainability

This week in PostMag: sustainable luxury and tea steeped in tradition

Excellence doesn’t shout: a Cartier honouree, tea guardians, Omani artisans and bold authors prove quiet brilliance speaks the loudest.

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Hong Kong

This week in PostMag: swimming holidays and cyborg cockroaches

Chinese-Peruvian cuisine in Lima, a Croatian getaway for those who like taking to the water, and remote-controlled cockroaches at Singapore Design Week.

Swimming around Croatia’s Dalmatian Coast, on the cover of this week’s PostMag print edition. Photo: Getty Images
Hong Kong

This week in PostMag: treats of the Tanka table and Asian comedians

The delights of indigenous Tanka cuisine that can still be found in Hong Kong, Asian comics blazing the stand-up trail, and a bike ride around South Korea’s Jeju Island.

Hong Kong

This week in PostMag: ghostly signs of Hong Kong and Old Master Q

Find echoes of bygone Hong Kong still legible on walls and shopfronts, look back at a comic strip icon, and take a trip to a former East German city.

Japan

This week in PostMag: Hello Kitty creator Sanrio and a South African safari

A deep dive into Japan’s Sanrio and iconic creations including Kuromi, a walking safari in the Samara Karoo Reserve, plus Cuban cocktails.

Joyce C, a 22-year-old fan of Sanrio’s Kuromi character, pictured in Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay. Photo: Jocelyn Tam
Hong Kong

This week in PostMag: Hong Kong’s bamboo scaffolding and a Bali bone healer

See how the Venice Biennale is discovering an iconic Hong Kong builders’ craft, meet debut novelist Jemimah Wei, and try an Italian coffee with Chinese characteristics.

Hong Kong’s iconic bamboo scaffolding features on the cover of this week’s print edition. Photo: Jocelyn Tam
Food and Drinks

This week in PostMag: racing at Le Mans and a healthy obsession with cheese

Sample Jeremy Evrard’s dairy delights, get behind the wheel at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, meet an iconic Hong Kong architect and see what’s new in Bordeaux wines.

Hong Kong

This week in PostMag: Girls with Guns and the peak of Japanese luxury

Dive into Hong Kong action films of yesteryear, take a moped ride through rural Guizhou and bask in the simple refinement of ‘Jaxury’.

History of Hong Kong districts

This week in PostMag: art deco, meditative martial arts and street dance

Discover Hong Kong’s art deco past, visit a Buddhist mountainside temple retreat and see artist Jessica Zoob’s inspirational works.

An art deco motif on a building on Prince Edward Road West in Hong Kong features on the cover of this week’s print edition. Photo: Jocelyn Tam
Hong Kong

This week in PostMag: tile art, translation and a marathon star

See how Hong Kong history is written in the walls, get inspired by a trailblazing ultra-marathon queen, or go wild in Yellowstone National Park.

Tiling Error VI: Ogres Flounder (2024), by Adrian Wong, from the exhibition “With Love from Hong Kong”, at Oil Street Art Space in Hong Kong, on the cover of this week’s print issue. Photo: Darren Chau
Asian diaspora

This week in PostMag: a queer-friendly football team, Innsbruck and Michelin

Discover what belonging means through a London football team for the Asian diaspora; how lone Michelin-starred restaurants operate in Thailand; and more.

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