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Hong Kong’s iconic bun festival attracted tens of thousands of visitors to Cheung Chau on Wednesday, a public holiday marking Buddha’s Birthday. The Jiao Festival and bun scramble returned to the island last year, after a three-year halt owing to the Covid-19 pandemic. Other celebrations included a kung fu show, and the Piu Sik Parade, which translates as “Floating Colours” – in which children in fancy dress are held up on towering poles and paraded through the winding streets of the outlying island. Traditionally, they dress up in satirical costumes mimicking top officials, such as the chief ...
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Hong Kong has seen performances of traditional Cantonese “operas for deities” across the territory in celebration of Tin Hau Festival, marking the birthday of the “Empress of Heaven.” This year’s festival coincided with Labour Day on May 1. It is celebrated on the 23rd day of the third lunar month. On Lamma Island, performance group Golden Dragon and Phoenix presented a traditional Cantonese opera in Yung She Wan for five consecutive nights. Kicking off last Tuesday, the show featured Cantonese Opera titan Loong Koon-tin, who took part in 11 performances. It took place at a makeshift bamboo th...
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A once-thriving coal mining town in Taiwan has reinvented itself as a tourist attraction and home to over 100 feline residents. Houtong, in Ruifang – west of the capital Taipei – was originally called “monkey cave.” During the 20th century, the area led Taiwan’s coal production – with 220,000 tons clawed from the earth each year. It spurred a population boom peaking at around 6,000. But young residents emigrated as the industry faded in the 1990s, leaving fewer than 100 villagers as the job market dried up. That was until 2008, when a local resident and photographer – Peggy Chien – began to ta...
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To celebrate its 45th anniversary, the MTR Corporation is launching an exhibition, “Station Rail Voyage,” which showcases retired trains and over 100 railway artifacts at Hung Hom Station. Running from next Wednesday to the end of the year, the exhibition presents retired trains including the “Yellow Head,” a locomotive which marked the start of the electrified service on the East Rail Line, train components, as well as a collection of historical artifacts. “Visitors can get up close to different types of trains and listen to station announcements highlighting the Corporation’s operations arou...
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A Songkran water fight took place at a basketball court in Hong Kong’s Kowloon City – “Little Thailand” – on Saturday. The Thai water-splashing celebration was moved off the streets, with pre-registration required and participant numbers limited, after three were arrested last year for allegedly splashing police. Alice Mak, home and youth affairs minister, said on Saturday that the new location was an effort to expand the scale of the New Year festival. The traditional festival symbolises cleansing, and the washing away of misfortune. Help safeguard press freedom & keep HKFP free for all reade...
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The regional winners of the 2024 World Press Photo Contest were announced on Wednesday, honouring the best photojournalism and photography produced over the past year. Palestinian photographer Mohammad Salem’s image of 36-year-old Inas Abu Maamar holding the body of her five-year-old niece Saly, who was killed along with four other family members when an Israeli missile struck their home in Khan Younis, Gaza, on October 17, 2023. Salem described the image, captured soon after his wife had given birth, as a “powerful and sad moment that sums up the broader sense of what was happening in the Gaz...
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The sold-out Hong Kong Sevens kicked off at the Hong Kong Stadium on Friday, marking the international rugby tournament’s return to pre-pandemic popularity. The Sevens returned to Hong Kong after a two-year hiatus in November 2022 amid partial Covid curbs and limits on attendee numbers. The tournament was held again last March, with the stadium in Causeway Bay allowed at full capacity, after anti-epidemic regulations were fully lifted in the city. “This is a very special year for the tournament as we mark three decades inside the Hong Kong Stadium, and we are overwhelmed at the response of the...
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As one of the central events of Hong Kong’s Art Week, Art Central 2024 will open to the public on Thursday, marking a return to the Central Harbourfront for the first time since 2019. The annual art fair is celebrating its ninth edition showcasing artwork and programming from 98 innovative galleries, with works by 500 distinguished artists from around the world. The fair opens to the public on Thursday, March 29, and will run until Sunday at the Central Harbourfront. This year’s programme was extended to be “the largest and most dynamic” since its introduction in 2015, the fair said in a state...
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Art Basel Hong Kong has returned to Wan Chai’s exhibition centre at full-scale, welcoming 242 galleries from 40 countries, with 65 more exhibitors participating compared to last year. “[T]he show will provide an unparalleled and dynamic overview of artistic production across the Asia-Pacific region, from historical rediscoveries to work by contemporary practitioners. More than half of all exhibitors operate spaces on the continent,” the art fair said. Opening HoursPrivate View (by invitation only) Tuesday, March 26, 12 noon to 8pmWednesday, March 27, 12 noon to 4pmThursday, March 28, 12 noon t...
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The final few residents of Hong Kong’s only privately-owned low-rental housing estate have been moving out of their homes to make way for its redevelopment, with Friday the deadline for their eviction. Tai Hang Sai Estate was built in 1965 and 1977 to rehouse people affected by the clearance of the Tai Hang Sai Resettlement Area, and offered over 1,600 units at below market value. Although Tai Hang Sai Estate’s redevelopment was discussed in the Legislative Council as early as 2011, it was not until last June that tenants were given an eviction notice, informing them that they would need to le...
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