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As redevelopment looms, Hong Kong’s To Kwa Wan neighborhood counts down the days
The neighborhood is seeing an exodus of residents and shops amid sweeping redevelopment.
Meet the ethnic minority language interpreters behind Hong Kong’s first COVID lockdown
"I'm not just serving my community, I'm serving the whole of Hong Kong."
A Hong Kong Instagram page posting creepily taken shots of women is a reflection of the city’s patriarchal society
The comments left on the pictures were shallow at best, and sexually aggressive at worst.
As the school year begins, former SCAD Hong Kong students mourn the loss of their campus
The cash-strapped university closed its Hong Kong doors in March
The world has marched for black lives. Why hasn’t Hong Kong?
"The good that came out of the whole ordeal is that there are now several Black Lives Matter events springing up around Hong Kong."
On the Inside Looking Out: Doing life in HK’s maximum security prison
Mario de los Reyes is gasping for air. It’s just after midday on a hot afternoon in late May and the sun is baking the concrete yard where the 64-year-old has been playing...
Wild life: A day of rescuing animals in Hong Kong’s urban jungle
In the battle to save the city’s animals from harm, you pick up some war stories. Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) inspectors are full of them. Stories of...
HK’s Bazaar Battle: Second-hand sellers push for greater freedom to trade on the streets
The streets are still dark when Ms. Tsoi and her husband head out from their flat, pushing a handcart overflowing with used shoes, clothing, pans and other bric-a-brac. The pair...
Sent packing: Hong Kong’s elderly cardboard collectors
Her fingers are bent from 20 years of collecting cardboard from Hong Kong’s streets, but Au Fung-lan says she has no desire to give up the grueling work. At 67-years-old she...
Hong Kong’s Luxury Timber Problem: Major stockpiles, minor prosecutions
Hong Kong has a timber-trafficking problem. Held in 50 cargo containers at secure sites, a stockpile of more than 1,200 tons of seized tropical hardwood attests to the city’s...