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Annemarie Evans
Uncle Ray’s was the voice millions down the decades tuned into late at night on RTHK’s All the Way with Ray, and he provided the launch pad for many singing careers in his 72 years on the airwaves.
He played with some of the best musicians of his era, and inspired generations of talent. Throughout it all, Hong Kong composer and bandleader Tony Carpio stayed true to the music.
Marden was a pioneer in special needs education and served as director of Hong Kong Red Cross in early 1960s.
The exhibition at 10 Chancery Lane, which includes works from the late Irene Chou, Lulu Ngie, So Wing-po, Movana Chen and other artists, was inspired by a landmark 1943 show in New York.
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A former Macau showgirl, Corinne Clifford started doing Pilates as a teenager; she turned to it full-time when she quit the stage at 32 to become an instructor – and stay in shape herself.
The lives of three of the Ming dynasty ‘Eight Beauties’ – courtesans known for their poetry, opera and calligraphy – are captured in author Alice Poon’s novel ‘Tales of Ming Courtesans’.
In his book Operation Clinker: Heroin Smuggling, a former undercover Hong Kong police officer recounts a major drug bust on the high seas and subsequent sting operations that snared triads in Hong Kong and their clients in Australia.
Briton Dennis Morley, who was on board the Lisbon Maru prison ship when it was torpedoed en route from Hong Kong to Japan by a US submarine, killing hundreds, died in January aged 101.
A new historical novel tells the tale of two brothers from China who went to the US to seek their fortune in the 1800s and how they found discrimination, tragedy and love along the way.
The mainland-born artist takes magazines, books and maps, which she shreds to create artworks from the remains.
Evelyna Liang Kan, the founder of Art In Hospital, has used art to help refugees, patients, and even displaced Sai Kung fishermen.
After 50 years in the business, recently retired Hong Kong broadcaster John Culkin recalls the perils of presenting live and why Cliff Richard was his most boring interviewee.
The Danish men were banned from swearing allegiance to a foreign king, but they signed up anyway to defend the city against Japanese invasion in World War II. Some paid with their lives.
Russian factory worker Faina Vakhreva married Chiang Ching-kuo, son of China’s Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, in 1935, and stayed a loyal supporter despite his repeated infidelity. Little was known about her, until now.
David Bellis, administrator of the website and Facebook page Gwulo, tells the stories behind the vintage and nostalgic photographs that make up his new book Old Hong Kong Photos and The Tales They Tell, Volume 3.
A republished version of ‘Chinese Pictures: China Through the Eyes of Isabella Bird’ contains 61 captivating images of China in the 1890s, ranging from classic architecture to dying men to a tower where poor people left dead babies.
Author John Saeki has been collecting oral history accounts and archive newspaper reports of South China tiger sightings in Hong Kong and has found there were many more incidents involving the big cats than people may realise.
Exhibition in remote Lai Chi Wo near Hong Kong’s border with China features artwork inspired by farming and rural life by eight artists, who had residencies in the village to connect with the community.
Les Bird led Hong Kong’s Special Boat Unit in the 1980s, tasked with capturing smugglers racing to mainland China in specially designed speedboats carrying everything from TVs to luxury cars.
Crowning Glory exhibition explores how women were able to express themselves despite being closeted in their quarters according to Confucian custom.The earliest items on display in the exhibition date back to the 7th century.
French, British, Dutch, Portuguese, Jesuit – collector Robert Nield’s nautical charts and maps, painstakingly drawn and coloured, show which European colonisers dominated the seas of southern China and Singapore through the centuries.
Man Fung-king was a typical bride in the rural Hong Kong of the 1950s, a farm girl contracted in an arranged marriage. She and fellow women of the Weitou minority sang bridal laments and recalled their lives for a documentary.
Hong Kong doctor Judith Mackay has battled against smoking for 50 years – and had a major impact across the globe. She looks back on that and much else besides, including raising a family.
Chamber pots, flower pots, soup pots – you name it, they were fired in the flames of a Tuen Mun dragon kiln, a type used in China since ancient times. The only one left in Hong Kong, ceramic artists are pushing for its preservation.
Retired soldier Brian Finch recalls his time in the jungles of Malaysia, his role in Sino-British negotiations over Hong Kong’s future, and the day in 1989 when a million Hongkongers took the streets
Tim Crouch, author of plays such as My Arm and An Oak Tree, reflects on his more desperate times and why ‘pompous English prigs’ strike a chord in Hong Kong
In his last interviews and at the age of 105, Michael Wright, the architect of Hong Kong’s first ‘private’ public housing estate, explains why there was never a dull moment in the city
When AirAsia Flight QZ8501 crashed into the Java Sea in 2014, all 162 people on board were killed, including Wee Mei Yi’s husband and their two-year-old daughter. She talks about overcoming grief and making a life for their son, Luca
Her biography newly published, Fermi Wong talks about Mao, moving from China to a subdivided flat in San Po Kong and battling breast cancer
Having covered everything from the Tiananmen Square crackdown and the 2004 tsunami to the handover and 9/11, the veteran broadcaster and writer is set return to the US
