With Lydia Sum ‘everything came from the heart’, said the TV producer who turbocharged the career of the comedian and actress. Known as Fei Fei, she is remembered for the joy she brought audiences.
Snow in Midsummer’s director reveals the challenges he encountered when making the film about Malaysia’s deadly sectarian riots that left hundreds of mainly ethnic Chinese dead on May 13, 1969.
Chat art museum at The Mills in Hong Kong celebrates its fifth anniversary with ‘Factory of Tomorrow’, an exhibition of works made with textiles that chart the city’s evolution and imagine its future.
Lyman Heung, a dancer who won King Maker V, is presenting a new dance show called Unspoken, on until May 12. He shares with the Post how he dropped out of college and chose to follow his dreams.
With its young people moving away, the culture and history of Tai O on Hong Kong’s Lantau Island were at risk of being forgotten. A non-profit foundation stepped in 15 years ago to help preserve them.
Golden Horse Awards winner Old Fox depicts Taiwan after the end of martial law, a time of rapid change. Director Hsiao Ya-chuan hopes its message resonates today as it did in the era in which it is set.
The Sound of Music is the first Broadway musical performed in Hong Kong since 2019, and its co-presenter is a Chinese state-owned company. Organisers talk about their joint endeavour.
In collaboration with the French National Library, Hong Kong’s M+ museum of visual culture is hosting an exhibition of 280 powerful black-and-white photos, its first show dedicated to the medium.
Swimming sensation Siobhan Haughey takes the Post through the process that led to her becoming the most accomplished Hong Kong competitor of all time in the pool.
Overwhelmed by her son’s autism diagnosis, Carmen Li threw herself into researching it online, and eight years later, started the platform Optism, aimed at Asian parents of children with ASD.
Performance art catches the eye at Art Central 2024, from a scarlet dress visitors crawl under to make their own art, to a multisensory dance involving chocolate. Galeries with art to sell are back in force too.
More international VIPs than in 2023 attend opening day of the fair, which in scale is back to what it was before pandemic. Galleries report strong sales.
Chinese filmmaker and painter Yang Fudong explains the premise of his latest film, showing on the giant M+ facade, and why ‘abundant’ Hong Kong makes it the ideal city in which to shoot artistic movies.
The president of Europe’s largest museum of Asian art, Paris’ Guimet, talks about restitution and repatriation, and the importance of collaboration, ahead of her panel discussion at the Hong Kong Palace Museum.
Sandy Lam began life as a 1980s teen idol and released what is seen as the first Cantopop concept record. Known for her powerful voice and avant-garde songs, she has come back from hiatus time and again.
Up to 5.5 billion wild animals are being farmed in terrible conditions and exploited for tourism, and for their fur, feathers, meat, or bile in the case of bears, according to a World Animal Protection report.
Etiquette consultant Piano Mok talks about different Asian dining customs and etiquette used in Chinese, Japanese and Korean cuisines – from chopsticks to who eats first – and which rules apply to all.
Former Hong Kong lawyer May Lim, who quit her job to become a wellness coach, talks about her journey, including months of silent meditation in solitary retreats in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Post cartoonist Harry Harrison is back with his annual Lunar New Year auction of original illustrations, this time paying homage to the Year of the Dragon – but why did Messi mess things up for him?
A photographer who is showing his photos of abandoned statues in an exhibition at the HKCACC Gallery travelled to temples and makeshift shrines across Hong Kong to snap them.
Sotheby’s has held two successful auctions of bitcoin ordinals – images, videos or text attached to satoshis, the smallest denomination of bitcoin. Some artworks are fetching up to five times their estimates.
The Chinese New Year tradition of giving red packets (lai see in Cantonese) dates back centuries, and was meant to ward off evil spirits. Here is our comprehensive guide to giving and receiving lucky money.
Following the furore over the United States Postal Service’s 2024 Year of the Dragon commemorative stamp, we look at rival stamp designs from Hong Kong, mainland China, Japan, Thailand and the Isle of Man.
Chang Dai-chien, or Zhang Daqian, was one of China’s most famous 20th-century artists, but little is known of his life after he left his homeland in 1949. A new documentary aims to fill in the gaps.
Hong Kong actor Chapman To, famous for his roles in the Infernal Affairs films, and a number of lowbrow comedies, found working in Hong Kong difficult after his vocal support for pro-democracy causes.
Using artificial intelligence to analyse mammograms for signs of breast cancer, but with human oversight, can save many lives through early detection and diagnosis, says a radiologist testing the technology.
Leon Lai Ming, one of the most well-liked celebrities in Hong Kong and one of the ‘Four Heavenly Kings of Cantopop’, has been in show business for more than 35 years.
Belgium-based Spanish artist Angel Vergara, who creates his landscapes and cityscapes while completely covered with a white sheet, recently depicted Hong Kong in a way not done before.
Upcoming Netflix action drama with Michelle Yeoh, The Brothers Sun, is all about family, according to the Oscar winner’s two younger co-stars. They talk about how her motherly presence eased their nerves.
