Dozens of people gathered at Kwai Chung Public Mortuary by 10am on Tuesday morning, looking for relatives who went missing in the Lamma ferry disaster. The mood was sombre and subdued as the relatives gathered in the building’s hall, some talking to mortuary officials. Others wept openly while some speculated aloud about the ferry collision …
Over the weekend I went to Sheung Shui. As Shatin gave way to Tolo Harbour and Tai Po, we were surrounded by verdant rolling hills worthy of a Julie Andrews frolick à la The Sound of Music. And the only thing I could think of was this oft-repeated saying: “香港地少人多. Hong Kong has little land and many people.“ …
The film Due West: My Sex Journey opened this week and if the massive turnout for last year’s 3D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy - by the same producer and with some of the same actors – is anything to go by, this soft-porn flick will be bagging movie-goers by the dozen. On the face of it, the film …
One recent afternoon, people packed into a lane lovingly nicknamed Beef Brisket Alley to eat delectable slivers of meat stewed in a simmering sauce. Nearby, Eric Leung Kam-hung, a racing-pigeon vendor, tended to 100 cooing birds at the stall his father started in 1979. At the stroke of 3, eight retirees assembled at the adjacent …
With more court cases being heard in Chinese, lawyers who know only English say the amount of work available for them has dropped, causing some to earn less, go into early retirement or move abroad. Court cases were first heard in Chinese in the 1990s, followed by the introduction of a series of measures to … Continue reading »
The city has accepted its first torture claim since enhancing its screening system four years ago, a move that advocates of asylum seekers view as good news, yet far from sufficient. The Sri Lankan man’s claim is only the second to have been approved in Hong Kong out of more than 12,000 applications the government … Continue reading »
For eight years, Bawah ran. A minority in his West African country, he ran from the Bimoba tribe. He ran at night and in the rain, and when they fractured his left hand. Finally in 2005, fearing for his life, he ran much, much farther — to Hong Kong. But now Bawah faces the opposite … Continue reading »
Handbag designer Fiona Kotur Marin is looking to open her first store worldwide in Mainland China. The New York native, who is best known for her clutches and minaudières, said her brand Kotur is in talks to open a store in China as early as this year. Hong Kong-based Kotur, founded in 2005, sells through … Continue reading »
Everyone loves a scandal. The U.S. had the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Italy had the bunga-bunga scandal. Even China had the Bo Xilai scandal. Here in Hong Kong, we have the illegal-structures scandal. That’s right, illegal structures. You know, when officials build stuff in their homes that breach the Buildings Ordinance. Such structures have been found … Continue reading »
I have crossed a frozen lake in the Arctic Circle in the dead of night, spent four years in snowy Vermont, and lived through three winters in Moscow, which included one night in 2008 when the mercury dipped to -30˚C, but never have I been as cold as when I am indoors in Hong Kong. The … Continue reading »
Buyers and suppliers at the Interstoff Asia textiles fair here said rising labor costs in China were becoming an increasingly heavy burden on them. Manufacturers expressed concern over the increasing cost of production as a result of rising minimum wages and the need to provide better benefits to workers in Mainland China. Meanwhile, a decreasing … Continue reading »
