My God – the rain! It’s finally stopped!
A fitting time to begin this ode.
For birds and insects and people come out -
There’ll soon be a crowd on Bowen road.
At five AM the first soul shows
A gentle old man, vest rolled up to his pits,
His arms revolve and his pace is slow,
He...
Do bring your earplugs or an iPod – you will be praising the lord for your foresight when some over-enthusiastic marcher starts strumming “We Shall Overcome.”
Do bring some friends with more than 30 minutes of chat – if you turn up at Victoria Park at 3pm, you’ll have...
The World's Most Expensive Toilet: Hong Kong jewelers Hang Fung Gold invested HK$38 million to create the greatest scatological wonder of the modern world in 2001 (turns out that was a solid investment and the room is now worth a cool $60 million). Chairman Lam Sai-wing supposedly got the idea from...
For growing numbers of Hong Kong manga and anime fans, simply reading or watching their favorite characters is not enough. Truly dedicated fans are taking their obsession a step further by dressing up and acting the part. They are cosplayers (costume players), people who gather at big events such...
1) Hong Kong goalkeeper Fan Chun-yip, "Piggy" to local fans, will be attempting to plug the goal deluge likely to spring from Manchester United strikers Ruud van Nistelrooy and Wayne Rooney. Footballer of the Year in 2004 and Fans' Footballer of the Year in 2004 and 2005, Piggy delighted...
The Wright Brothers had a dream. We got airplanes. Thomas Edison had a dream. We got electricity. Now Austalian-born entrepreneur Daniel Marinov has a dream. If he has his way, we'll get the West Kowloon Cultural District: Enter The Dragon.
Like thousands of others, Marinov, a long-time city...
Six-year-old Miss Hui was riding her bicycle from Pak Ngan Heung to Mui Wo when she swerved to avoid an obstacle blocking the narrow footpath. She slipped off the path and fell, grazing her right leg. That obstacle was one of the increasingly 60 or so feral cows that live on Lantau Island, several...
I wasn't wearing pajamas when I met [former premier] Li Peng - it was a hospital gown. I was admitted to hospital that day owing to the hunger strike. When I heard there was to be a meeting, I came straight from the hospital. It created a dramatic effect, I agree, but that wasn't my intention.
We [...
The queues ran up Lyndhurst Terrace and around Hollywood Road as thousands turned out to buy a last slice of culinery history before the Tai Cheong Bakery closed. Some people waited almost three hours in the afternoon sun before being served. Was it really about cakes or was something else going on...
