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Articles Written by: JOYCE HOR-CHUNG LAU
HONG KONG | In its near-obsession with tidying up the city, the Hong Kong government can impose some silly restrictions. Like the recent one against walking up the escalators in the MTR subway system. Or the one against sitting outside to eat.
In ...
Courtesy of the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents Club The jazz musician Allen Youngblood, one of the performers at the FCC’s jazz festival.
HONG KONG | Anyone who’s anyone here (meaning anyone with a few bucks in the bank) belongs to a private club, an ...
Dragon boat races are in remembrance of Chu Yuan, an ancient Chinese scholar/statesman, who drowned around 277 B.C. while denouncing government corruption. Vincent Yu/Associated Press
HONG KONG | Rainy season here is schizophrenic — storm-clouds can ...
HONG KONG — Martina Navratilova, looking tanned and fit, bounced a tennis ball a few times hard on the ground, as if preparing for a serve. But the balls were covered in paint, and her target was a canvas.
The latest on the arts, coverage of live ...
From JOYCE HOR-CHUNG LAU,
The New York Times,
19 May 2009
HONK KONG | In one corner, there’s Ocean Park, the beloved locally-run, non-profit theme park that everyone remembers going to as a child. In the other corner is Disneyland Hong Kong, a shiny, new, foreign interloper that popped up in 2005. Both have ...
Over coffee one morning here, the conversation jumped from publicists trying to keep her interviews on schedule (“Oh, poo on them”) to women’s fashion (“Structured skirts. Can’t wear them. I’m too short”) to the flood of new writers (“It’s like ...
From JOYCE HOR-CHUNG LAU,
The New York Times,
8 Apr 2009
Courtesy of the Hong Kong International Film Festival Jackie Chan in “Shinjuku Incident.”
Hong Kong | The Hong Kong International Film Festival kicks off two weeks of screenings from 55 countries; 250 movies will be shown at 11 different venues around ...
A VISITING Frenchwoman once asked me for advice on buying quality jade, one of Hong Kongs best-known commodities. So my mother took her to Chinese Arts & Crafts (www.crcretail.com), which is where we would go ourselves. Our visitor was so horrified by ...
From JOYCE HOR-CHUNG LAU,
The New York Times,
13 Mar 2009
Shopping for jade at Hong Kong’s Jade Market in 2006. (Basil Childers)
A visiting Frenchwoman once asked me for advice on buying quality jade, one of Hong Kong’s best-known commodities. So my mother took her to China Arts and Crafts, which is where we ...
The monthlong Arts Festival will be followed by the from March 8 to 18, and the Hong Kong International Film Festival from March 22 to April 13. Both are among the largest events of their kind in Asia. Tucked in there is Hong Kong Art Walk on March 11 — ...
