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9 September, 2024
Food and Drinks
What is that red Chinese candy box you see during Lunar New Year?
The chuen hup, also known as a togetherness box, is full of tiny sweet treats that carry rich cultural connotations and auspicious meanings.
5 Jan 2025 - 1:15PM
Horoscopes
Chinese horoscopes: what does January 2025 hold for your zodiac sign?
5 Jan 2025 - 12:00PM
Asian cinema: Hong Kong film
5 martial arts films that feature the snake style of Shaolin kung fu
5 Jan 2025 - 11:15AM
Food and Drinks
How 1,000-year-old lost art of Chinese tea ceremony is being revived
Latte art has got nothing on the ancient Chinese art of drawing on tea foam whipped up with a bamboo whisk, these days using matcha.
3 Jan 2025 - 11:30AM
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Cantonese culture
Who is a ‘snake king’? What is a ‘snake nest’? Twisty Cantonese slang explained
Why do police ‘release snakes’? How do students ‘bend snakes’? We untangle six Cantonese slang expressions that use the word ‘snake’.
3 Jan 2025 - 8:22AM
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Lunar New Year
Year of the Snake 2025 predictions for Horses, who’ll find love easily
Horses will be lucky in love, women above all, in the lunar new year according to Chinese geomancy. Men in certain jobs will make good money.
2 Jan 2025 - 7:10PM
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Lunar New Year
Chinese horoscopes: what to expect in the Year of the Wood Snake 2025
As the world enters the Year of the Wood Snake later this month, those born in the Years of the Rat, Monkey, Rooster, Horse and Dragon should experience good luck.
3 Jan 2025 - 9:50AM
Animals
A Hong Kong snake catcher on the passion behind his public service
Sun Tak-hei, one of 11 licensed snake catchers in Hong Kong, talks about his enthusiasm for reptiles and how to deal with a wild snake.
3 Jan 2025 - 9:50AM
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Lunar New Year
Why Year of the Snake 2025 won’t follow Lunar New Year’s Eve, technically
The Chinese calendar has no 30th day of the 12th lunar month this year, and it’s to do with the moon’s orbit. So when will people celebrate?
1 Jan 2025 - 12:45PM
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Lunar New Year
Year of the Snake 2025 predictions for Snakes, including their lucky colour
What lies in store for Snakes in the new lunar year according to Chinese geomancy, including why they should focus on work – and avoid water.
2 Jan 2025 - 7:12PM
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Hong Kong economy
Opinion
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Hong Kong, Macau can grow China’s appeal in age of US containment
For China to break out of a US-led containment, both cities have a pivotal role in building global connections and bridging divides.
29 Dec 2024 - 9:30AM
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Food and Drinks
Food and drinks stories you read most in 2024, about noodles and more
Among our most-read food and drinks stories this year were explainers about noodles and whisky and one about a Hong Kong tofu shop closing.
28 Dec 2024 - 1:15PM
Chinese overseas
Being Chinese
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No stereotypes please, overseas Chinese students are a wonderful mix
By no stretch of any imagination can one reduce Chinese students in the UK to a uniform, faceless tribe, as my cohort once was.
28 Dec 2024 - 9:30AM
Hong Kong society
For Hong Kong special effects make-up artist, ‘gross’ is a compliment
Wilfred Wan, whose work has appeared in major blockbusters, shares the blood, sweat and slime of his intricate craft.
28 Dec 2024 - 7:24PM
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Food and Drinks
The secrets of snake wine, long touted as good for health
Many believe that snake wine offers medicinal benefits, including improving blood circulation – but drinking it is not without its risks.
31 Dec 2024 - 11:58AM
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Lunar New Year
Year of the Snake 2025 predictions for all 12 zodiac signs. Is your luck in?
Feng shui master Tong Pik-ha gives her predictions, from the lucky colours to wear to which sign will have a bad year when it comes to love.
2 Jan 2025 - 8:43PM
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Taiwan
Former Taiwan leader emphasises shared roots of island and mainland Chinese
On his fifth student exchange programme, Ma Ying-jeou accuses ruling DPP of being behind unprecedented crisis in culture.
25 Dec 2024 - 10:00AM
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Hong Kong culture
Beijing-Paris ties on display in Hong Kong show of silk, porcelain and diplomacy
Versailles and Forbidden City joint exhibition a sign of past exchanges and possible future strengthening of ties, experts say.
27 Dec 2024 - 2:16PM
Food and Drinks
Why savoury Chinese dumplings are becoming a winter solstice favourite
Sweet dumplings are common at winter solstice, but Taishanese savoury ones are trending on social media as influencers return to their roots.
21 Dec 2024 - 11:15AM
Food and Drinks
All about Lazy Susans and the many spins on their origins
The revolving tabletop platters are found in Chinese restaurants all over, but who was Susan? And why was she idle? The answer is a bit hazy.
19 Dec 2024 - 4:15PM
Families in China
Opinion
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How China’s reality TV shows reveal changing attitudes to marriage
A hit reality show about couples seeking divorce might come off as mere spectacle but the public discussion around it is telling.
19 Dec 2024 - 9:30AM
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Art
The rabbit hole down under: inside Sydney’s White Rabbit Gallery
With over 800 artists and 4,000 pieces, the gallery owned by Judith Neilson has amassed an astonishing collection of Chinese contemporary art
18 Dec 2024 - 3:15PM
Science
Opinion
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China’s scientific breakthroughs can lead to linguistic ones too
While English is used in most global scientific exchanges, publishing more papers in Chinese could facilitate linguistic innovation and inclusion.
18 Dec 2024 - 9:30AM
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Hong Kong culture
Year of the Snake stamps unveiled by Hongkong Post
Four stamps for upcoming Chinese zodiac year each feature a snake wrapped around auspicious plant or flower; collectors’ items readied too.
1 Jan 2025 - 5:19PM
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Women and gender
Opinion
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Chiung Yao’s celebration of women’s freedom goes deeper than her paeans to love
As Chinese women embrace feminism, the writer’s final celebration of her independence perhaps resonates more deeply than her love stories.
17 Dec 2024 - 11:52AM
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Hong Kong society
New look at old Chinese, French ties in ‘grand finale’ Hong Kong exhibition
Exhibition offers new ways to discover the two cultures, says Laurent Salome, director of the National Museum of the Palaces of Versailles and Trianon.
16 Dec 2024 - 8:48PM
Malaysia
Malaysia’s Chinese character of 2024 isn’t ‘sinkhole’ – or ‘Madani’
This year’s choice showcases the richness of Chinese characters, allowing for multiple interpretations within a single term.
16 Dec 2024 - 10:09AM
Books and literature
How snake went from evil temptress to righteous demon in Chinese mythology
The best known Chinese folk representation of snakes is the Legend of the White Snake. The snake’s role in it has gone from bad to good.
1 Jan 2025 - 5:19PM
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