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After spending decades in Hong Kong with its warm waters, ferries and junk trips, the English coast’s cold weather, colder water and faded towns still stir this writer’s heart.

  • Max Johnson, 21 years younger than his half-brother, the former British prime minister, speaks Russian, lived in Beijing and Hong Kong, and married a Brazilian

Martial arts film icon and the 2024 Hong Kong Film Awards’ Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Sammo Hung talks about his movies, stars like Donnie Yen, Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan – and eating.

Sandra Ng Kwan-yue, now a respected Hong Kong actress and producer, started out playing minor, unattractive roles in the 1980s. But through hard work and humility, she carved a path to success.

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Filipino director Mikhail Red talks about Friendly Fire, his upcoming esports movie, why he loves making horror films, and how it is hard to survive as a filmmaker in the Philippines.

Founded in 2015, Auralee has quietly become one of Japan’s coolest fashion brands. Designer Ryota talks about heading a slow fashion label in a world used to instant gratification.

Swimming sensation Siobhan Haughey takes the Post through the process that led to her becoming the most accomplished Hong Kong competitor of all time in the pool.

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The former head of UK armed forces tells Kate Whitehead about his rise through the ranks and why Colin Firth wanted to play him in a film about fighting rebels in Sierra Leone.

Roxanne Seeman has written for Barbra Streisand, The Jacksons and Phil Collins among others. Now she is penning Cantopop and Mandopop songs. The New Yorker reveals what shaped her Chinese sensibilities.

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Raymond Tham, chef of Beta in Kuala Lumpur, talks to the Post about the meaning behind its name, its mission to add a modern touch to Malaysian street food, and how he lost weight during the pandemic.

A random splurge blew open the art world for Alan Lau, who has since built an impressive collection, is on boards at M+ and Para Site, and co-chairs Asia committees at the Guggenheim and the Tate.

Ukraine-born Andrei Iwanowitsch is among the last survivors of the Nazi Buchenwald concentration camp. After forced labour, a death march, and a ‘narrow’ life in Soviet Belarus, at 98 he’s seeing the world .

Nicholas Tse, the son of actor Patrick Tse Yin and actress Deborah Lee, has not just had a successful singing and acting career, he also founded a restaurant chain and a post-production company.

The Hong Kong artist known for using shredded magazine paper to knit clothes tells Kate Whitehead how her unusual medium has helped her make a world of friends, and why she still writes love letters.

Restaurateur returns to the helm of Hong Kong’s Pirata Group, having stepped down as CEO in 2019, and looks ahead to expansion to new markets – and back at how he and Manuel Palacio got started.

Actress Karena Lam talks to the Post about how making pottery became a creative outlet for her during Covid-19 and what it means to be a Hong Kong International Film Festival ambassador.

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Meet Violette_FR founder Violette Serrat, who is changing the way people think about make-up – and the ‘no make-up make-up’ French girl look. ‘I see more and more people wearing colours,’ she says.

New Yorker Alison Loehnis, the Yoox Net-a-Porter boss, tells Kate Whitehead about falling in love with fashion, being trained to within an inch of her life at Ralph Lauren and landing her dream job in London.

Actress Jennifer Lim talks to the Post about starring in the first horror series designed for phone viewing – before that became common – and combating stereotypes about Asians on stage and screen.

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Saks Potts’ AW24 collection takes inspiration from Kate Moss’ grunge-meets-bohemian looks of the 2010s. The childhood friends behind the Copenhagen-based label talk about how it was born.

Sandy Lam began life as a 1980s teen idol and released what is seen as the first Cantopop concept record. Known for her powerful voice and avant-garde songs, she has come back from hiatus time and again.

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Hayao Miyazaki won the Oscar for best animated feature for his ‘last’ film The Boy and the Heron. We look back at the life and work of the 83-year-old Studio Ghibli co-founder.

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Fresh from her talk at the Hong Kong International Literary Festival, newly minted author Sonia Leung tells Kate Whitehead about life in a Diamond Hill slum, a devastating rape and how she finally followed her dream.

Fresh from his Grammy win last month, A-list producer Khris Riddick-Tynes reflects on a sterling career that has seen him work with the likes of Ariana Grande, Toni Braxton and Tia Ray.

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British cookbook author Fuchsia Dunlop talks about her career spent learning about regional Chinese cuisines, ahead of her appearance at this year’s Hong Kong International Literary Festival.

Director Ravi Ajit Chopra is all set to give his Guinness World Record-winning short Cognition the full feature treatment. He talks about working for BBC Films, and his Bollywood dream.

Brent will join the ‘Fab Five’ on the Emmy Award-winning Netflix show for Season 9, set in Las Vegas – news of his casting comes just 3 months after Berk’s departure

Chinese-American actress Joan Chen never dreamed she would become a film star. She talks about her journey, and working with directors such as David Lynch, Ang Lee and Bernardo Bertolucci.

From singer to actor to director, Stephen Fung has worked with Marvel’s Paul Rudd, is close friends with Daniel Wu and married Shu Qi – we look at the story of the prolific Hong Kong showbiz figure.

‘Hong Kong’s ghost net hunter’ Harry Chan talks about nearly being sold as a baby, why he tried to get expelled, how his business bloomed and then went bust, and finally finding peace under water.

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Daphne King-Yao, niece of Hong Kong’s first chief executive, Tung Chee-hwa, talks to the Post about growing up around art, joining her mother’s art gallery and opening a branch in the United States.