Like a school trip for grown-ups: Hong Kong Philharmonic tours Europe

22 Apr 2024 - 2:33PM

A tour planned to milk HK Phil’s 2019 Gramophone orchestra of the year win, but delayed by Covid-19, finally happened. Post Magazine joined players on the road

Adana Kebab Dumpling at The Peninsula Istanbul’s Gallada. Photo: Cihan Alpgiray

How Cantonese cuisine is being borrowed from around the world

From Italy to Japan, a growing number of chefs around the world are borrowing techniques, recipes and ingredients from Cantonese cuisine – but is it a threat to the food’s authenticity?

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Simon Holliday, co-founder of Splash Foundation, a Hong Kong non-profit that teaches children from underserved communities how to swim. Photo: Simon Halliday

He loves to swim and to teach. At Hong Kong non-profit Splash he does both

The co-founder of Splash Foundation, a Hong Kong non-profit swim school that helps adults and children from underserved communities, talks to Kate Whitehead about finding his mission.

28 Apr 2024 - 11:15AM

Image of author Tessa Hulls. Hulls, now 39, wrote her first graphic memoir, Feeding Ghosts, published by Macmillan US this March. It’s raw, intense and honest, drawing and writing out stories of intergenerational trauma from 1920s China, to 1950s Hong Kong, to present-day USA that gave Hulls a much more nuanced understanding of not only her grandmother and mother, but also herself. Photo: Tessa Hulls

Grandma, mother, daughter: an emotional story from China to US

Memories of three generations of women from Communist China, Hong Kong and California and the traumas they carried with them are at the heart of Feeding Ghosts, Tessa Hulls’ debut graphic novel.

28 Apr 2024 - 7:45AM

UMP Hong Kong camp members, Chris James (top left), Gaston Pong (centre, blonde) and Chiyo (bottom right, glasses). Photo: UMP Hong Kong

They’ve written for BTS, Tia Ray – and they combined in Hong Kong

A recent songwriting camp in Hong Kong brought together young talent who have written BTS, Tia Ray, Priscilla Abby and more to create all-but-guaranteed chart-toppers. We spoke to three of them.

27 Apr 2024 - 6:15PM

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Like a school trip for grown-ups: Hong Kong Philharmonic tours Europe

How Cantonese cuisine is being borrowed from around the world

He loves to swim and to teach. At Hong Kong non-profit Splash he does both

Grandma, mother, daughter: an emotional story from China to US

They’ve written for BTS, Tia Ray – and they combined in Hong Kong

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