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Entertainment

I don’t want to see scary movies, star who acted in many says

Sigourney Weaver – Ellen Ripley in Alien films – tells BBC host she avoids ‘scary films’; Nosferatu star says he was scared seeing the film.

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Travel news and advice

5 things about Paris’ Notre Dame cathedral you probably didn’t know

7 Dec 2024 - 10:59AM

What to do in Hong Kong

5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend, December 6-8

6 Dec 2024 - 5:08PMvideocam

Family & Relationships

Hong Kong culture

Meet a ‘big white fella’ from Northern Ireland speaking Cantonese like a local

Daniel Peacock’s trip to a Chinese takeaway got him talking Cantonese again, and posting videos with his Hong Kong-born wife that are a hit.

6 Dec 2024 - 1:26PM

The Peacocks are raising their children to be bilingual. Photo: courtesy of Daniel and Ellen Peacock

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Performing arts in Hong Kong

Conductor Elim Chan on cancel culture, and why Hong Kong is ‘special’

Back in her home city, Chan hails improved HK Phil, and recalls her anger at concertgoers rejecting Russian music because of Ukraine war.

5 Dec 2024 - 4:15PM

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Chinese culture

Why people born in the Year of the Snake make good lovers and colleagues

Snakes are caring friends once you break the ice. They are also romantic lovers and some of the best colleagues to have in a crisis.

5 Dec 2024 - 11:18AM

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Chinese culture

Obituary | Chiung Yao, Taiwanese romance novelist, dies aged 86

Writer known for novels including My Fair Princess reportedly leaves suicide note saying ‘I choose this way to go home gracefully’.

7 Dec 2024 - 8:53AM

Taiwanese romance novelist Chiung Yao, who has died at the age of 86. Photo: Weibo/@会火

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Books and literature

Why Japanese author Mieko Kanai charms readers overseas, but not at home

Mieko Kanai was seen as a contender for the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature, but in Japan her books are rarely even reviewed.

4 Dec 2024 - 4:15PM

Mieko Kanai, a prominent Japanese writer and essayist, is more popular overseas than in Japan. Photo: Stone Bridge Press

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Fame and celebrity

Oprah Winfrey starts new YouTube podcast and shares book club pick

In partnership with Starbucks, The Oprah Podcast started with Winfrey’s latest book club pick, Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan.

4 Dec 2024 - 10:45AM

Europe

Jasleen Kaur wins Turner Prize for art exploring her Scottish-Sikh identity

Her winning exhibition mixes sculpture, print and everyday items, including family photos, a Ford car and the popular Scottish soda Irn Bru.

4 Dec 2024 - 4:37AM

Arts & Culture

Books and literature

Korean author on being your true self, as her hit guide appears in English

K-pop stars helped make Kim Su-hyun’s I Decided to Live as Me fly off shelves in Asia. An English version may help more find their own path.

4 Dec 2024 - 4:46AM

Kim Su-hyun’s I Decided to Live As Me has sold millions of copies in Asia since 2016. The South Korean author shares her excitement about a new English-language translation. Photo: Penguin Life

Arts & Culture

Exclusive | Hong Kong art photography fair cancelled months before its debut

Photofairs Hong Kong, slated for March 2025, scrapped by UK-based organiser because of unspecified ‘logistical constraints’.

3 Dec 2024 - 5:13PM

Visitors attend the 2018 edition of Photofairs Shanghai, the city where the photographic art fair began in 2014 and where it will again be held in 2025. Plans for a Hong Kong edition of the fair in 2025 have been scrapped. Photo: Handout

Arts & Culture

Japanese leaf-cutting artist’s delicate works bring fame, solace

From Mount Fuji to frogs, Lito’s leaf carvings have gained fans on social media while providing the artist, who has ADHD, a creative outlet.

3 Dec 2024 - 11:15AM

Arts & Culture

Chinese culture

Why the coming Year of the Wood Snake could be lucky

With 12 animals and 5 elements, the Year of the Wood Snake comes around every 60 years, and 2025’s may be more favourable than 1965’s.

7 Dec 2024 - 8:37AM

Arts & Culture

Performing arts in Hong Kong

Tianjin Juilliard School represents the future, Juilliard president says

‘An orchestra is a metaphor for collaboration,’ says music school head Damian Woetzel, a believer in power of arts to bring people together.

2 Dec 2024 - 11:15AM

Michelle Kim, founder and artistic director of Hong Kong Generation Next Arts, interviews Damian Woetzel, president of The Juilliard School (middle), as Wei He, chief executive and artistic director of The Tianjin Julliard School looks on, ahead of the Tianjin Juilliard Orchestra recent performance in Hong Kong. Photo: George Wong

Arts & Culture

Are VR headsets the future of education in schools?

Virtual reality headsets can help to teach languages and train workers. Do they have a bright future in schools? Experts weigh in.

1 Dec 2024 - 5:15PM

A woman wears a virtual reality headset. VR headsets are widespread among gamers but can also be used to learn. A VR researcher and an education expert talk about the technology’s potential. Photo: Shutterstock

Arts & Culture

Scott Kahn was down and out. Then fellow artist Matthew Wong bought a work

When Matthew Wong revealed he had bought one of Kahn’s paintings, Hong Kong collectors took an interest. At 78, Kahn has first show in Asia.

1 Dec 2024 - 9:29AM

Arts & Culture

Art made from plastic waste on Chinese beaches makes a statement

Fu Junsheng collects plastic that washes up on China’s Miaodao islands and turns it into art that highlights the problem of marine pollution.

1 Dec 2024 - 8:33AM

Arts & Culture

Chinese-born buyer of US$6.2 million banana art eats it in Hong Kong

Cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun praises artist for creating Comedian artwork, before downing it on live stream at The Peninsula hotel.

30 Nov 2024 - 8:47AMvideocam

Chinese-born cryptocurrency founder Justin Sun eats a banana artwork, composed of a fresh banana stuck to a wall with duct tape, in Hong Kong on November 29, 2024, a week after buying the provocative work of conceptual art at a New York auction for US$6.2 million. Photo: AFP

Arts & Culture

Did Frederic Chopin write this? Newly found waltz goes on show

A sheet of music discovered in a New York museum could well be the work of Chopin, experts agree. The museum has put the waltz on show.

27 Nov 2024 - 5:15PMvideocam

A previously unknown musical manuscript, possibly by Frederic Chopin, rests in a display case after it was discovered at The Morgan Library & Museum in New York. Its authenticity remains debated. Photo: AP

Fashion & Beauty

When Notre Dame burned, so did hope for designer. Then he received a call

Jean-Charles de Castelbajac has dressed pop stars including Rihanna, and a pope. Now he’s designed priestly robes for Notre Dame’s reopening.

27 Nov 2024 - 4:15PM

Arts & Culture

Chinese culture

Life, love and loss at museum of Chinese migrants’ letters home

People who left Chaoshan, southern China, for work sent back remittances and reflections on life. A museum in Shantou displays their letters.

27 Nov 2024 - 7:40AM

Arts & Culture

Performing arts in Hong Kong

Review | Elim Chan conjures magic in brilliant Prokofiev with HK Phil

Chan shapes a mesmerising rendition of symphony after teaming with violinist James Ehnes in a refined performance of Tchaikovsky concerto.

26 Nov 2024 - 11:15AM

Elim Chan conducts the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre on November 22, 2024. Photo: Keith Hiro/HK Phil

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Design literacy is not a prerequisite for enjoying the myriad events orbiting Business of Design Week, which will be appealing to a broader audience in the first week of December 2024.

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How Shanghai’s academic Bunker bar is redefining intellectual nightlife

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