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Clockenflap, Hong Kong’s biggest music festival, is back this weekend with a line-up featuring Britpop band Suede. For those who prefer more intimate performances and shows, there’s much else in the city to choose from. Photo: Clockenflap
What to do in Hong Kong

5 of the best shows in Hong Kong this weekend, Nov-29-Dec 1

See Suede, Central Cee and more at Clockenflap, or an award-winning jazz singer’s intimate event. A top drag queen makes her Hong Kong debut.

Hong Kong

Your perfect week: what to do in Hong Kong from November 24 to 30

Old Hong Kong

Remembering veteran Cantopop lyricist James Wong Jim, who died 20 years ago

Hong Kong celebrities and icons

Profile | Miriam Yeung’s career as singer and actress, and rupture with fans

Declaring herself a Chinese patriot at the height of anti-government protests in Hong Kong angered fans, but Yeung is back performing again.

Leading Hong Kong singer and actress Miriam Yeung at an interview with the Post in 2017. Photo: Jonathan Wong
Music

How beloved Cantopop classic The Bund took Hong Kong by storm

Featuring Frances Yip’s commanding voice, The Bund, theme tune to a TVB series of the same name, was also a hit among the Chinese diaspora.

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Hong Kong politics

Hong Kong star Andy Lau at centre of war of words over song choice in Taiwan

Beijing slams some Taiwanese politicians who attacked Andy Lau for performing his song ‘Chinese people’.

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Hong Kong celebrities and icons

Profile | From songwriter in wife’s shadow to serious actor, Louis Cheung’s rise

Hong Kong tabloids painted Louis Cheung as dependent on singer wife Kay Tse, but as an acclaimed actor he’s standing on his own two feet now.

Louis Cheung in an interview with the Post in 2011. At one time , Hong Kong tabloids mocked the singer, songwriter and actor for being less successful than his pop-star wife, Kay Tse. Now he is flying high. Photo: SCMP
Hong Kong

What is HKT x WestK Popfest – and who’s performing?

Over 4 nights, the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong will host over 60 performances by local and international artists at this upcoming music festival.

Hong Kong courts

Hong Kong dancer paralysed in Mirror concert sues employer for compensation

Dancer Mo Li, 30, could be entitled to over HK$3.5 million in compensation if court finds his injury resulted in permanent total incapacity.

Hong Kong courts

Hong Kong Mirror accident: government not liable for stage safety, court hears

Coliseum employee who oversaw Cantopop boy band concert says organiser responsible for ensuring installations, including giant screens, are safe.

Security officers walk past a display promoting Cantopop boy band Mirror. Photo: Dickson Lee
Hong Kong

How the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra transformed for a new generation

Former general manager John Duffus, in his memoirs Backstage in Hong Kong, recalls the challenges of leading the orchestra into the 20th century

John Duffus with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra in 1983. Photo: Chan Kiu
Hong Kong courts

Hong Kong Mirror accident: no proper standards for suspension wires, court told

Workers from principal contractor on trial for fraud, with six overhanging screens allegedly listed as weighing 3,600lbs when actual weight was 9,852.5lbs.

Hong Kong courts

Late Hong Kong star Anita Mui’s mother faces second bankruptcy

Tam Mei-kam, who turned 100 earlier this year, named as debtor in High Court bankruptcy petition listed on court’s cause book.

Hong Kong society

Hong Kong girlfriend of injured Mirror dancer slams medical staff over blunder

So Tsz-ching, girlfriend of Mo Li, says dancer earlier fell from support sling due to loose safety buckle.

So Tsz-ching (left) has urged medical staff to take Mo Li’s (right) care more seriously after he fell from a support sling. Photo: Instagram/soching_nat
Hong Kong celebrities and icons

Profile | Hong Kong singer and actor Jacky Cheung’s rise to God of Songs

Known as one of the ‘Four Heavenly Kings’ of Cantopop, Jacky Cheung has enjoyed a stellar career as an actor and singer since 1984.

Jacky Cheung performs on stage in Hong Kong in January 2024 during his Jacky Cheung 60+ Concert Tour. Photo: VCG via Getty Images
Accidents and personal safety

Hong Kong father of injured Mirror dancer hopes for ‘justice’ for son in trial

Mo Li ‘lost his years of youth and mobility’, says father Derek Li, before start of trial this month over high-profile concert accident.

Hong Kong economy

Opinion | Hong Kong cannot afford to lose its entrepreneurial spirit

We owe it to ourselves and our city to think big, take risks and hold ourselves to a higher standard – and take our hats off to those who do.

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Hong Kong celebrities and icons

Profile | Why Cantopop stars from Faye Wong to Eason Chan love lyricist Albert Leung

Having created lyrics for stars from Anita Mui to Leslie Cheung and Jacky Cheung, Leung is one of Cantopop’s most loved and prolific writers.

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Albert Leung thanks the crowd for their support during the annual Ultimate Song Chart awards organised by Commercial Radio, in January 1999. Photo: SCMP
Hong Kong celebrities and icons

Profile | How Hong Kong’s ‘good girl’ Vivian Chow became beloved Cantopop star

Vivian Chow Wai-man was one of the most popular Cantopop singers of the 1990s and also a noteworthy actress, famous for her good-girl persona – and her up-and-down relationship with husband Joe Nieh.

Accidents and personal safety

Singer of Hong Kong boy band Error denies he committed ‘hit and run’

Denis Kwok waited 27 hours to tell police he had knocked down pedestrian while driving his Ferrari.

Performing arts in Hong Kong

5 art shows and performances in Hong Kong this weekend, August 17-18

A Leslie Cheung musical featuring over 20 of the Cantopop star’s hits and a food-themed art exhibition starring young Asian artists are among our Hong Kong arts and culture event picks this weekend.

Leslie Cheung performs at a concert at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre in March 2000. Photo: SCMP
Hong Kong

Then & Now | How Hong Kong’s Diamond Records gave birth to Cantopop

Cantopop didn’t begin with Anita Mui or Jacky Cheung, but with the humble studios of post-war Hong Kong

Popular 60s soul band The Mystics are among the formatitive Hong Kong artists that cut their demo discs with Diamond Records, an incubator for what would become Cantopop. Photos: SCMP Archive
Performing arts in Hong Kong

Review | Hilarious new musical makes fun of Hong Kong’s education system

Riotously funny and packed with celebrities, Black Comedy Di-Dar takes place in a Hong Kong secondary school that bribes students to help fulfil its requirement to promote traditional Chinese culture.

Music

How Hong Kong’s Avon Recording Studios served Cantopop’s biggest stars

Cantopop’s greatest, from Leslie Cheung to Faye Wong and Leon Lai, have put down tracks in Hong Kong’s Avon Recording Studios, which opened in 1983. We join a tour of the storied hit factory.

Hong Kong

The Hong Kong musical paying tribute to Leslie Cheung

Starring Kimman Wong and Mischa Ip Hau-lam, new production Café I Do features a Broadway-style score with over 20 songs by the late Cantopop icon

Café I Do – The Leslie Cheung Musical was inspired by the late singer’s enduring legacy. Photo: MQ Musical Theatre
Hong Kong gigs

Can this new Hong Kong music venue fill a hole left by Kitec?

The 1,500-person-capacity AXA Dreamland at Go Park Sai Sha in Ma On Shan could soften the blow of the loss of Kitec’s 600-seat Music Zone, where bands including Mirror launched their careers.

Taiwanese singer OSN (in white vest) during a concert at AXA Dreamland at Go Park Sai Sha in Ma On Shan, Hong Kong, on the weekend of July 27, 2024. Photo: Yiu Wing Live
Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Hong Kong star Ronald Cheng’s drink, depression discussion cuts stigma: doctors

Mental health experts say people with depression often try to self-medicate with alcohol, but celebrities discussing their problems breaks the taboo.

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What to do in Hong Kong

How Sam Wong photographed ‘golden age’ of Hong Kong cinema

Sam Wong’s photos of Cantopop and film and pop stars like Anita Mui, Leslie Cheung and Faye Wong helped immortalise them and other stars of the ‘golden age’ of Hong Kong film and music.

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9 September, 2024
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