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A 15-year-old charged with property damage after vandalising the grave of Beyond’s late singer Wong Ka-kui has been denied bail. The student was denied bail and detained at the Tuen Mun Children and Juvenile Home. Another defendant, a 23-year-old man, was released on HK$5,000 bail and the condition that he does not set foot into the graveyard, The Witness reported. Police said they received a report from staff at the Tseung Kwan O Chinese Permanent Cemetery at around 11.30 am Sunday that two men were suspected of damaging, graffitiing, and pouring liquid over a gravestone at the cemetery. Poli...
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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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Zines come in a wide array of shapes and sizes. Among the extensive collection curated by Samantha Chao, a zine librarian at the Asian Art Archive (AAA) in Hong Kong, certain zines were smaller than palm-sized, while others were about as large as ring binders. To properly accommodate the expanding collection within the city’s first formal zine archive, Chao selected three customised shelves to house the self-published medium that often had thin spines. Inspired by the layout of vinyl record stores, the archive features pull-out drawers filled with alphabetically arranged zines, providing reade...
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By Rod Parkes “Tell good stories about Hong Kong,” the government constantly exhorts the media and the public in the face of much perceived criticism of the territory. In the archetypal “good story about Hong Kong” the protagonist – typically from humble beginnings – seizes the opportunities the city offers, through talent and hard work, to rise to fame and fortune. Commonly the talent deployed is business acumen, as with Li Ka-shing’s fabled ascent from poverty to become Asia’s richest man. In other cases, the talent is artistic, as in the heartwarming tale of a talented girl from a poor sing...
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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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Hong Kong must improve communications to manage tourists’ expectations of fireworks displays, a tourism veteran has said after visitors from mainland China aired complaints about a scaled-down pyrotechnics display on Labour Day. It came as Hong Kong saw more than 181,000 arrivals from the mainland on the first day of the May 1 “golden week”. Timothy Chui, executive director of the Hong Kong Tourism Association, told RTHK that he was “pleasantly surprised” to know that some mainland tourists had come to Hong Kong specifically for the scaled-down fireworks display. However, some Chinese netizens...
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Pro-democracy Cantopop star Denise Ho has said she will perform an online gig this month having been unable to secure a live venue. “Apart from the fact that it’s so difficult for me to do a ‘normal’ show in this abnormal place (I should say it’s impossible, I can’t book a show, I can’t go out of town for a tour)… I think this situation of being stripped down is probably the best time for me to learn how to be a singer again,” Ho said in a Facebook post to fans on Monday. Police are currently in possession of the singer’s passport as she was arrested on charges of sedition in connection with t...
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The Kowloonbay International Trade & Exhibition Centre (KITEC) will close on June 30. It follows a HK$10 billion purchase by a consortium led by Billion Development and Project Management in 2021. E-max, a mall within KITEC, notified commercial tenants of the closure. Last March, the government approved the reconstruction of the site into three commercial building, with industrial exhibition space, as well as commercial and engineering facilities. Built in 1995 and originally owned by Hopewell Holdings, the 1.76 million square foot events and office space has hosted concerts, conferences, exhi...
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President Theatre in Hong Kong has announced it will shut down on Tuesday, after operating in the city for more than half a century. The announcement came less than a week after another local cinema went out of business. Newport Circuit announced on Facebook last Saturday that President Theatre, which opened in October 1966, will close on April 30. The theatre located in Causeway Bay described its demise as “closing down with honour,” and thanked the support of the public. ‘Collective memories’Fans of the theatre expressed regret over the closure, with some saying the tickets sold by President...
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While attention was focused on Singapore’s exclusive deal to host Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour concerts and Lionel Messi’s absence from a Hong Kong exhibition march, the city’s jazz fans were excited at a planned visit by three times Grammy Award winner Diana Krall. I share the disappointment over Messi and Swift even though it had nothing to do with me. Krall is another story: I texted my friends about the concerts. Her live appearance in Hong Kong is a mega event, as important as an LVMH fashion show in Tsim Sha Tsui or a Mirror concert. Then I was taken aback to learn that the concert will take...
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