Short Reads
Kenelm Digby sought solace from early-uttered, ill-considered words in Asia, and then New Zealand, but could never completely escape the nightmares of the past.
One of the most famous attacks on ancestral shrines in ancient China dates back to 506BC.
You don’t know where it will be held or what the show is going to be about, but this immersive experience involving ‘a psychopathic serial killer’ is something you wouldn’t want to miss.
The brainchild of James Marlow, a teacher from Britain who founded Waste Free Hong Kong, the bun run combines volunteering with exercise.
The prolific British writer who spent three decades in Japan as well as a brief period in Hong Kong is infamous for the poem behind the last successful prosecution for blasphemy in Britain – The Love that Dares to Speak Its Name.
No extinguishers and 50lbs of fireworks help the blaze, which started in a joss stick shop on the ground floor, blocking the only stairway.
The story of the courageous female soldier, who fought so that her father wouldn’t have to, was first told in a poem, and has been subject to many interpretations since it was written during the Northern Wei dynasty.
The private members’ club on rails is available to guests enrolled in The Peninsula Academy – at a price: US$6,000 for up to five people; the same journey for five on a regular tram would cost US$1.65.
With the number of unmarried women in Hong Kong rising dramatically, it’s time to update the official language for singledom.
Much like US states are abbreviated to two letters, so too are China’s administrative divisions represented by a shortened, single character. Often, that comes from the longer name of the area, but some reference the region’s distant past.
The force is faces a serious crisis of confidence as public trust plummets. But who is really to blame?
Greed led Chinese feng shui practitioner Li Yuhui to murder three close friends and two teenaged daughters of one of the women during a ‘longevity rite’.
With Hong Kong going nuts for her vegan fare, Mayse Artisan Bakery founder brings meat-free fast food to the masses. ‘It’s for anyone who likes good food and music with friends’.
The word’s origin stories include Portuguese traders in Asia and Spanish conquistadores in Mesoamerica, while it’s English form comes from an erroneous spelling.
More than 50 children were born in Stanley internment camp during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, showing connections were made even under the most trying circumstances.
World’s first commercial airline hijacking ends in disaster after the Miss Macao flying boat crashes en route to Hong Kong
Weapons-confiscations programmes, known as ‘sword hunts’, occurred throughout Japanese history.
Tokyo-based Madsaki’s month-long exhibition will feature works that reference classics such as In the Mood for Love and Kung Fu Hustle.
Long lines cost the city’s retailers US$2.35 billion last year – maybe it’s time to abandon the fake-queue ploy.