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Kylie Minogue performing at Canton Disco in 1988. Photo: Handout

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When the place to be seen in Hong Kong was Canton Disco

Kylie Minogue made her live debut there. Sylvester Stallone’s Rambo III after-party was there. Canton Disco made a splash from 1985 to 1991.

9 May 2025 - 6:15PM

Profile | Hong Kong actress and singer Gigi Leung’s 3 decades in the limelight

9 May 2025 - 6:28PM

5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend May 9-11

9 May 2025 - 12:45PMvideocam

Entertainment

Ewan McGregor on the vintage bikes in Apple TV+’s Long Way Home

GPS, drones, Insta360s, GoPros and … vintage motorbikes? McGregor and Charley Boorman’s road trip around Europe mixes technology old and new.

9 May 2025 - 7:15PM

Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman, stars of Long Way Home. Photo: Apple TV+ via AP

K-drama

Resident Playbook midseason recap: K-drama lacks characters to root for

Where Hospital Playlist was compelling, spin-off struggles with its low stakes, syrupy-sweet moments and lack of charismatic characters.

9 May 2025 - 6:15PMvideocam

Arts

Echoes of Picasso in Bob Dylan art going on show in London

London’s Halcyon Gallery to show 97 works by artist and musician Bob Dylan, inviting viewers to explore the profound stories he tells.

7 May 2025 - 4:15PM

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Food & Drink

All about ginger, how to pickle it, and a recipe that makes the most of it

A versatile spice that varies depending when it’s harvested, ginger can be pickled or used as seasoning. It goes with meat and seafood.

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Old ginger (pictured) is thick skinned and available year-round, unlike milder young ginger, which is commonly pickled. Photo: Shutterstock

Health & Wellness

How an AI selfie scanner could help doctors treat cancer patients

Researchers created an AI tool that scans selfies to estimate biological age, which doctors could use to personalise care for patients.

9 May 2025 - 4:50PM

Food & Drink

Where a Persian in Hong Kong eats dumplings and knife-cut noodles

A fan of Cantonese food, Ali Ghorbani reveals where he eats claypot rice, ‘some of the city’s best dumplings’, and a full English breakfast.

9 May 2025 - 11:15AM

Health & Wellness

He was 45, fit, but his arm tingled. Seeing a doctor probably saved his life

Scott Daley discovered he had a large blockage in his left anterior descending artery, which left untreated could have caused a fatal heart attack.

8 May 2025 - 11:15AM

Scott Daley (right) and his wife, Brooke. Scott Daley underwent quadruple bypass surgery after discovering a significant blockage in the left anterior descending artery, which supplies blood to the heart. He had a history of heart issues in his family. Photo: heart.org/Scott Daley

Food & Drink

Japan’s oldest sake brand leans into tradition to revive the drink

Kenbishi Sake Brewing uses traditional methods and equipment to make drinks it believes will become trendy again.

9 May 2025 - 8:12AM

Kenbishi Sake Brewery workers at its brewery in Kobe, Japan. Photo: Instagram/kenbishi.official

Entertainment

Review | A Gilded Game: Oho Ou, Andy Lau lead moralistic financial drama

Lau plays an equity analyst and Ou his protégé, a fresh-faced bank hire chasing a big deal, in Herman Yau’s financial drama.

8 May 2025 - 5:46PMvideocam

Health & Wellness

Fungal disease in The Last of Us is deadly. Could it really happen?

The widespread use of antifungals, especially in farming, is reducing their effectiveness and making untreatable, fatal diseases more likely.

8 May 2025 - 7:15PM

Health & Wellness

95-year-old powerlifter’s advice for ageing well? ‘Just keep moving’

Catherine Kuehn began weightlifting to avoid osteoporosis and has not looked back. ‘Strong Grandma’ shares how to stay healthy into old age.

8 May 2025 - 5:15PM

95-year-old world champion powerlifter Catherine Kuehn. Photo: YouTube

Chinese culture

How Toronto’s Chinatown is fighting back against existential threats

Young Asian-Canadians in Toronto are trying to keep its Chinatown’s heritage alive as downtown development and real estate speculation rise.

8 May 2025 - 2:14PM

People attend a Toronto Chinatown Land Trust mahjong fundraising event at the Wong Association of Ontario. Photo: Maylynn Quan

Travel & Leisure

Disney to build theme park in Abu Dhabi in the UAE, its seventh

Abu Dhabi developer to fund project on Yas Island, already home to other amusement parks, SeaWorld and a water park.

8 May 2025 - 9:44AM

K-drama

9 of the best new K-drama series to watch in May 2025

From Spring of Youth to Tastefully Yours to Nine Puzzles, here’s our pick of the best Korean dramas coming to screens in May.

2 May 2025 - 12:21AMvideocam

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Arts

Why are classical music stars skipping Hong Kong for other Chinese cities?

From Andrea Bocelli and Placido Domingo to Lang Lang, classical music stars have been eschewing Hong Kong in favour of nearby cities.

21 Apr 2025 - 7:15AM

Plácido Domingo performs at the Galaxy Macau with Beatrice Venezi conducting the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra on October 20, 2024. Photo: Galaxy Macau

Chinese culture

History of the world’s oldest Chinatown, Binondo, now a foodie paradise

Established in 1594 in the Philippine capital Manila, Binondo has gone from financial hub to culinary hotspot boasting amazing restaurants.

17 Apr 2025 - 7:15AMvideocam

Chinese culture

Is Year of the Snake’s fourth month lucky for you? Forecasts for all 12 signs

Feng shui master Andrew Kwan breaks down this lunar month’s prospects for health, love, finance and career for the 12 Chinese zodiac signs.

27 Apr 2025 - 2:14PM

Food & Drink

9 Mother’s Day events in Hong Kong, from lavish brunch to dinner

Indulge your mother on her special day with a tasting menu, a Cantonese feast, a seafood extravaganza or a leisurely brunch.

1 May 2025 - 5:15PM

Sheraton Hong Kong’s Oyster Bar elevates brunch with its harbourfront vistas. Photo: Oyster Bar

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Chen Rui, known online as @trumpbyryan and by his English name Ryan, is a content creator from Chongqing, China known for imitating Donald Trump. Photo: @trumpbyryan/ Instagram

The influencer from China who speaks exactly like Donald Trump

Chen Rui, a Chinese marketer who went viral for his spot on Trump impressions, teaches English through his social media.

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There was little festive cheer 75 years ago, as the Battle of Hong Kong raged to a bloody conclusion. Some of the people who lived through the invasion recall how they suddenly found themselves in a war zone

The Battle of Hong Kong: eyewitness accounts

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The good, bad and ugly sides to being a tourist in Kathmandu

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Hong Kong rapper and cook Chef West. Photo: Jonathan Wong

Food and Drinks

Hong Kong’s viral hip-hop cook on how food ‘connects with people’

Viral Cantonese cooking and rapping Instagrammer Chef West talks about how food resonates with people and blending skills for success.

8 May 2025 - 12:45PM

Martinis to Cosmopolitans, where 7 classic cocktails were created

7 May 2025 - 7:15PM

Want lump-free cheesy pasta? Physicists offer a ‘foolproof recipe’

7 May 2025 - 3:15PM

Can AI be a secret ingredient for restaurants? Top chefs weigh in

6 May 2025 - 5:15PM

French-Israeli chef Matan Zaken at his Michelin-star restaurant Nhome in Paris. He is an advocate of using artificial intelligence to create new recipes and flavour combinations. Photo: AFP

China’s Black Pearl dining guide makes its international bow

5 May 2025 - 4:38PM

Meituan’s Black Pearl restaurant guide held its first awards ceremony overseas, including a gala dinner, in Singapore. Photo: Meituan

Hong Kong noodle chain Tam Jai flying high with HK Express tie-up

5 May 2025 - 7:15AM

A waitress at a Tam Jai restaurant in Hong Kong. Photo: Alexander Mak

Watered but not grown in water, a rice strain for a drier, hotter world

3 May 2025 - 11:15AM

Scientist Karla Cordero inspects experimental rice seedlings grown in Chile. A new, less water-intensive rice strain is thriving in the country’s dry climate, offering hope for sustainable agriculture at a time of increased water scarcity. Photo: AFP

Health & Wellness

A drug trial has transformed young Albie Kelly’s life, his mother Lauren Kelly says.
Photo: sheffieldchildrens.nhs.uk

Trial epilepsy drug’s success on son like winning the lottery, mum says

Young boys with Dravet syndrome, which causes multiple debilitating seizures, experienced dramatic improvements after taking a trial drug.

6 May 2025 - 4:15PM

New bone marrow test doubles AML blood cancer survival chances

7 May 2025 - 4:15AM

How some stroke victims find their voices again through song

5 May 2025 - 4:15AM

Do you struggle to find joy? Tips on how to do so and common ‘joy blockers’

6 May 2025 - 11:43AM

Vegan diets often lack 2 essential amino acids, study finds

3 May 2025 - 6:15PM

Chinese culture

The Chinatown in Lower Manhattan is New York’s oldest, shaped by immigrants from Hong Kong, and from Guangdong and Fujian provinces in mainland China. Photo: Getty Images

Chinese culture

The changing faces of New York’s 3 most prominent Chinatowns

From Manhattan’s Cantonese enclave to Flushing, where Mandarin rules, the food and language in city’s Chinatowns tell stories of immigration.

24 Apr 2025 - 7:15AM

Discover the rich history and modern revival of Bangkok’s Chinatown

14 Apr 2025 - 3:05PM

How Chinese in the US hired a cinema to see Ne Zha 2 on IMAX

8 Apr 2025 - 6:40PMvideocam

The turbulent history of San Francisco’s Chinatown, North America’s oldest

8 Apr 2025 - 7:15AM

Large crowds fill Grant Avenue in San Francisco’s Chinatown in the US state of California for the annual Mid-Autumn Festival. Photo: Hearst Newspapers via Getty Images

No hot food before Ching Ming? Diving into the forgotten Cold Food Festival

4 Apr 2025 - 7:45AM

People in Vietnam prepare sugar-filled glutinous rice balls for the little-known Cold Food Festival, once widely celebrated in Chinese and East Asian communities but now absorbed into the tomb-sweeping festival called Ching Ming. Photo: Shutterstock

Explainer | What is the Chinese Ching Ming Festival and how is it marked?

3 Apr 2025 - 3:56PM

Grave sweepers worship their ancestors at Diamond Hill Cemetery in Kowloon, Hong Kong, on Ching Ming Festival. Photo: Elson Li

Seoul and Incheon’s Chinatowns tell stories of Chinese immigration to Korea

1 Apr 2025 - 7:15AM

The main entrance gate to Incheon Chinatown, South Korea’s oldest Chinese enclave. Photo: AP

(FILES) A picture taken on May 10, 2005 shows a guest walking through the Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe following the memorial’s inauguration in Berlin. Some say it feels like walking through a field of gravestones, others liken it to a maze of coffins, disorientating and eerily quiet despite being in the middle of Berlin. The German capital’s sombre Holocaust memorial -- an arrangement of 2,711 concrete steles, which has drawn millions of visitors -- marks its 20th anniversary on May 10, 2025. (Photo by John MACDOUGALL / AFP)

Berlin’s Holocaust memorial turns 20 but would Germans rather forget?

The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe has been visited by millions but fears exist that Germany’s tradition of remembrance is eroding.

7 May 2025 - 5:15PM

Sotheby’s calls last-minute halt to Hong Kong auction of Buddha relics

7 May 2025 - 3:23PM

Can AI be a secret ingredient for restaurants? Top chefs weigh in

6 May 2025 - 5:15PM

‘This is for you, Michael’. Tilson Thomas’ final bow in San Francisco

6 May 2025 - 3:15PM

Pinstripes to zoot suits, stars put on the style for 2025 Met Gala

6 May 2025 - 10:55AM

Actors Park Bo-gum and Hyeri are reuniting on Hyeri’s YouTube variety show “Hyell’s Club”, marking their first appearance together since the hit 2015 K-drama Reply 1988. Photo: Instagram/leehye-ri

Reply 1988 stars Park Bo-gum, Hyeri to reunite on her YouTube show

Korean actor currently on screens in When Life Gives You Tangerines co-starred with Hyeri in 2015 series, and will do so again in Good Boy.

7 May 2025 - 6:55PMvideocam

Hong Kong’s viral hip-hop cook on how food ‘connects with people’

8 May 2025 - 12:45PM

K-pop boy band Re:wind talk about chasing their dreams for a second time

8 May 2025 - 9:57AMvideocam

Arashi, J-pop boy band turned mega group, announce farewell tour

7 May 2025 - 7:03PMvideocam

J-pop mega-group Arashi, whose members have announced they will reunite for a farewell tour in 2026 after which the former 1990s boy band will disband. Photo: Instagram/arashi_5_official

Review | Holy Night: Demon Hunters – Ma Dong-seok can’t save tiring action horror

7 May 2025 - 5:45PMvideocam

Ma Dong-seok in a still from Holy Night: Demon Hunters.

Ocean with David Attenborough is a breathtaking feast for the senses

7 May 2025 - 1:15PMvideocam

A still from Ocean with David Attenborough, which will be released in cinemas on May 8 and on the National Geographic TV network on June 7, followed by Disney+ and Hulu on June 8, which is also World Ocean Day. Photo: Instagram/silverback_films

Is Apple TV+’s quality-over-quantity streaming strategy working?

7 May 2025 - 11:15AMvideocam

Olivia Wilde (left) and Seth Rogen in a still from Apple TV+ series The Studio. In the first episode, Martin Scorsese’s character has a film project killed by Rogen’s studio chief and wishes he had sold it to Apple, neatly encapsulating the streaming platform’s reputation. Photo: TNS

Re:wind members Elaya, Eddie and Lei each spent time in Korea chasing their K-pop dreams before returning to the US. Now they have returned to the music industry. Photo: Re:wind

K-pop, Mandopop and other Asian pop

K-pop boy band Re:wind talk about chasing their dreams for a second time

Eddie, Elaya and Lei had all auditioned and trained in Korea to be idols before leaving the industry, only to return to it and join Re:wind.

8 May 2025 - 9:57AMvideocam

Review | Holy Night: Demon Hunters – Ma Dong-seok can’t save tiring action horror

7 May 2025 - 5:45PMvideocam

Reply 1988 stars Park Bo-gum, Hyeri to reunite on her YouTube show

7 May 2025 - 6:55PMvideocam

Netflix effect seen in Korean films’ absence from Cannes festival

3 May 2025 - 7:45AM

Is IU dropping new music? New photo teases possible comeback

1 May 2025 - 9:46AM

Travel & Leisure

A station employee at Shimbashi Station in Minato, Tokyo, Japan checks lost property in a database that is part of an AI system created by IT firm Find.

Artificial intelligence

Lost something on a train? How AI is helping people recover their stuff

A new ‘lost-and-found platform’ at various stations and other locations in Japan is having much success in reuniting people with their items.

8 May 2025 - 4:15PM

How a Hong Kong digital nomad artist widened her colour palette with travel

9 May 2025 - 2:02PM

He ‘didn’t really know’ his mum before. After their 700km walk, he does

8 May 2025 - 4:15AM

Martinis to Cosmopolitans, where 7 classic cocktails were created

7 May 2025 - 7:15PM

A Black Russian cocktail. Photo: Shutterstock

Berlin’s Holocaust memorial turns 20 but would Germans rather forget?

7 May 2025 - 5:15PM

(FILES) A picture taken on May 10, 2005 shows a guest walking through the Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe following the memorial’s inauguration in Berlin. Some say it feels like walking through a field of gravestones, others liken it to a maze of coffins, disorientating and eerily quiet despite being in the middle of Berlin. The German capital’s sombre Holocaust memorial -- an arrangement of 2,711 concrete steles, which has drawn millions of visitors -- marks its 20th anniversary on May 10, 2025. (Photo by John MACDOUGALL / AFP)

8 precautions for travellers to the US, including having a burner phone

7 May 2025 - 7:17AM

A US Customs and Border Protection officer at the US-Mexico border. Photo: TNS

Scuba divers talk up potential for the sport’s growth in Hong Kong

5 May 2025 - 1:01PM

A diver views corals growing in Hong Kong waters Photo: Simon Lorenz

Family & Relationships

Tobias Schlegl walked the Camino de Santiago with his 73-year-old mother, Sieglinde. Photo: X/@Tobias Schlegl

Books and literature

He ‘didn’t really know’ his mum before. After their 700km walk, he does

Tobias Schlegl’s relationship with his mother, though warm, lacked real depth – until they set out together on a historic pilgrimage route.

8 May 2025 - 4:15AM

The new dating trend in China? Live-streamed video chats

30 Apr 2025 - 12:45PM

Meghan’s tears, confessions about Harry in first podcast interview

29 Apr 2025 - 12:15PMvideocam

Taiwan tariff blow, Bangladesh’s new leader, sex therapy: 5 weekend reads

28 Apr 2025 - 12:28PM

A parent’s guide to Disney stage musicals, how best to prepare their child

28 Apr 2025 - 4:15AMvideocam

Indulge in LucAle’s exclusive Mother’s Day brunch featuring a selection of Italian classics, dolce and free-flow wines. Photo: Handout

Food and Drinks

7 Hong Kong restaurants to celebrate Mother’s Day 2025

From a boozy brunch at Whisk and Asian delights at Café 103, to Portuguese flavours at Flint and Cantonese classics at Yat Tung Heen, here’s how to celebrate mum in Hong Kong this year.

8 May 2025 - 2:01PM

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for May 8-11

7 May 2025 - 6:00PM

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for May 9-12

7 May 2025 - 11:45AM

Drink in Focus: Oyster Shell at Socio

1 May 2025 - 11:00AM

Socio’s Oyster Shell cocktail aims to reduce waste and tantalise your tastebuds. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for May 1-5

30 Apr 2025 - 1:39PM

The Qura bar hosts UnDer Lab this long weekend. Photo: Qura

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for May 1-4

30 Apr 2025 - 12:00PM

Watermark’s Weekend Harbour Brunch Bliss. Photo: Watermark

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for April 24-26

23 Apr 2025 - 6:15PM

Ezra Star has taken a non-alcoholic approach to Mostly Harmless for the time being. Photo: Mostly Harmless/ The Foundry Asia