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Annemarie Evans
The novelist behind Colin Farrell’s new Macau-set film noir, The Ballad of a Small Player, reveals how his art imitates his life.
Jimmy Minoo Master went from importing Indian textiles to running a Swiss asset firm. Now he plays golf and runs a family charity.
The Filipino designer on his sold-out exhibitions in the 1990s, a terrifying incident with a gas canister, and his daily Hong Kong hikes.
The record producer, composer and band leader discusses learning his craft from his father and working with Jacky Cheung and Andy Lau.
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The cop-turned-security consultant on a life of fighting crime in Hong Kong – from investigating tycoon Teddy Wang’s death to dealing with corporate crime.
British artist and teacher Sally Grace Bunker once spent 7 years creating watercolours of 100 indigenous trees for the University of Hong Kong.
‘I learned English from the Backstreet Boys because I was going to marry one of them,’ says Alyson Hau of her preteen self – years later, she introduced them on stage.
The city’s fading past has become a passion project for a designer and photographer duo keen to share their otherworldly sightings.
A clairvoyant told him he was destined for the stage, so he changed his whole career trajectory, but even growing up in Hong Kong, he was inspired by Barry Manilow.
Brother Patrick Tierney, veteran of La Salle’s Hong Kong Catholic schools, discusses his devotion to education, his fondness for football and Bruce Lee.
Gary Ades, the head of fauna conservation at Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden, on the evolution of animal welfare and conservation in Hong Kong.
A former theatre designer turned fine artist, Zoob now creates multilayered, evocative artworks in her new Hong Kong studio.
The Filipino-Hong Kong singer and actress talks about cutting her first record at age 5, working with stars, and getting married in front of 3,500 people.
From passing props to his father, children’s TV host Uncle Calvin, to conducting orchestras in tutus, this Hong Kong radio host has always believed in the power of joyful chaos.
The Hong Kong-born pianist grew up listening to Frank Sinatra, has met his heroes and found his beat on the New York jazz scene.
The second generation of the Bookazine dynasty, Shonee Mirchandani, talks learning to live with the family business.
Trailblazing DJ and concert promoter Andrew Bull on how Hong Kong’s disco scene exploded, and losing HK$10m on a Celine Dion concert.
Fifty years after the end of the Vietnam War, refugee-turned-vinyl entrepreneur Paul Au shares how music changed his life.
Uncle Ray’s was the voice millions down the decades tuned into late at night on RTHK’s All the Way with Ray, and he provided the launch pad for many singing careers in his 72 years on the airwaves.
He played with some of the best musicians of his era, and inspired generations of talent. Throughout it all, Hong Kong composer and bandleader Tony Carpio stayed true to the music.
Marden was a pioneer in special needs education and served as director of Hong Kong Red Cross in early 1960s.
The exhibition at 10 Chancery Lane, which includes works from the late Irene Chou, Lulu Ngie, So Wing-po, Movana Chen and other artists, was inspired by a landmark 1943 show in New York.
A former Macau showgirl, Corinne Clifford started doing Pilates as a teenager; she turned to it full-time when she quit the stage at 32 to become an instructor – and stay in shape herself.
The lives of three of the Ming dynasty ‘Eight Beauties’ – courtesans known for their poetry, opera and calligraphy – are captured in author Alice Poon’s novel ‘Tales of Ming Courtesans’.
In his book Operation Clinker: Heroin Smuggling, a former undercover Hong Kong police officer recounts a major drug bust on the high seas and subsequent sting operations that snared triads in Hong Kong and their clients in Australia.
Briton Dennis Morley, who was on board the Lisbon Maru prison ship when it was torpedoed en route from Hong Kong to Japan by a US submarine, killing hundreds, died in January aged 101.
A new historical novel tells the tale of two brothers from China who went to the US to seek their fortune in the 1800s and how they found discrimination, tragedy and love along the way.
The mainland-born artist takes magazines, books and maps, which she shreds to create artworks from the remains.
Evelyna Liang Kan, the founder of Art In Hospital, has used art to help refugees, patients, and even displaced Sai Kung fishermen.
