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Joanne Yau
Joanne Yau
Hong Kong
Intern
Joanne joined SCMP in June 2024. She is currently an English and Film Studies student at the University of St Andrews. She has long been interested in art and cultural global trends, and has experience working in PR agencies, film festivals, student film productions and campus publications.

A Gen Z gamer and older gadget geek give their thoughts on the innovative but costly Apple Vision Pro as the mixed-reality headset hits shops in Hong Kong and mainland China.

Hong Kong Museum of Art exhibition Fragrance of Time charts the history of fragrances in China through the display of over 150 exhibits, and scent corners where aromas are emitted.

Hungry and love tea? Try a lunch at Tate Dining Room in Hong Kong that pairs tea with French-Chinese cuisine – and attend a workshop to try a rare Puer tea valued at US$61,500 per brick.

In Michelin Guide Singapore 2024 Meta is the big winner, rising to 2-star status. There are still no Asian-cuisine 3-star restaurants, prompting one Lion City food expert to question its inspectors’ tastes.

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The Michelin Guide Singapore 2024 awards its Bib Gourmand, recognition for a good-value gourmet experience, to 11 new places, many of them hawker food stalls, taking to the total to 81.

With family-run shipyards dependent on finding someone to keep them going, and others moving to China, dragon boat building risks becoming another sunset industry in Hong Kong.

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A photographer based in Zhejiang, eastern China, Zhonghua Yang, follows up his three prizes in 2023’s Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year awards by winning the top prize this year.