On January 1, we will be 25 years into the new millennium. In that time, we have gone from the first Apple iPod – launched in 2001 – to Spotify; two-megapixel digital cameras to 4k camera phones; and MySpace to Facebook to TikTok. Food for thought, indeed. If you have not yet decided how you … Read more
There is no end to the things you can do over the Christmas and New Year holidays in Hong Kong, but this weekend you most certainly need to check out a big photo exhibition at M+ and a new Japanese bakery in Causeway Bay. 1. Yasumasa Morimura and Cindy Sherman: Masquerades At M+ museum in … Read more
A veteran curator of major arts and design exhibitions and fairs, Dr Grace Lau is the fair director of Fine Art Asia and co-chair of the Polytechnic University school of design’s 60th anniversary activities, including a gala dinner on November 29 at the Cloud 39 ballroom in The Henderson. She spoke to Andrew Sun. My … Read more
There is plenty to do in the open air this weekend, but with typhoon Trami lurking in the region, there is a chance the fine weather we have been having might take a turn for the worse. Well, we can always stream entertainment at home. Here are our five Hong Kong weekend highlights. 1. Made … Read more
“And our duck has a name – Douglas,” she says. Douglas the Duck at Mandarin Oriental Mayfair. The first rubber ducks were made in the 1880s, although not as we know them today – the cheery yellow versions we recognise now were born in the 1940s. While many credit US-based sculptor Peter Ganine for creating … Read more
Now the erstwhile fishing villages on either side of Aberdeen Harbour are forests of high-rise blocks. Between them, the dinky little ferries shuttle to and fro amid the not-so-fragrant whiff of fish, seawater and motor oil. Aberdeen Harbour, which you can cross by “kaito” ferry for HK$2.50. Photo: Dickson Lee It is a gloriously quirky … Read more
None of the kids had swimming lessons, we just picked it up. I was very good at school and was always top of the class or second. I was supposed to go on to secondary school but my father needed more hands on the boatKwok Cho-tai Late starter My father was illiterate. He hadn’t gone … Read more
Hong Kong’s famous skyline was almost always in view when I lived in the city. But even after 28 years, I did not tire of it. Now, back in England, it is one of the features of life in the city I miss. The unique cityscape, with its forest of skyscrapers, dramatic hills and stunning … Read more
