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The Khorgos Gateway Dry Port, near Almaty, Kazakhstan, links China, Central Asia and Europe via rail. Photo: Liu Heung-shing
Hong Kong

This week in PostMag: in celebration of the human spirit

From a photographer on China’s epic belt and road odyssey to the enigmatic man behind Shenzhen’s Weird Building, this edition investigates the people behind the stories.

Japan

This week in PostMag: covering crafts, from Bhutan’s heritage arts to a designer’s mountainous ‘planet’

Taiwan

This week in PostMag: a glimpse of tomorrow today, from singing robots to global sci-fi attractions

Hong Kong

This week in PostMag: honouring the kind souls making the world a better place

Discover how small acts of kindness and community spirit, from dragon boat triumphs to eco-tourism, are transforming lives and places.

Members of the Renegades, a Hong Kong-based female dragon-boat team, train at Stanley Main Beach. Photo: Alexander Mak
Food and Drinks

This week in PostMag: a nostalgic celebration of food, glorious food

Discover how food, nostalgia and identity intertwine across Hong Kong’s cha chaan teng, Michelin kitchens and Tainan’s indigenous dishes – plus Patti LuPone’s Hong Kong debut.

India

This week in PostMag: the summer travel edition offers holiday tips for all tastes

Discover dreamy summer getaways – from Hainan’s luxury escapes to Thailand’s creative Songkhla – plus sustainable stays, genre-blending concerts and Chinese state banquet secrets.

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Hong Kong

This week in PostMag: toxic tomes, a trip to Fifa World Cup host Mexico City and ‘Carmen’ in Kowloon

Our latest issue urges readers of Victorian-era books to beware, offers tips for football fans heading to Mexico and takes a look at the beloved opera ‘Carmen’ – with a Hong Kong twist.

This week, PostMag takes on an emerald brilliance with a cover designed to look like a “poison book” and stories destined to get under your skin. Illustration by Naomi Chan. Photo: Getty Images
Hong Kong

This week in PostMag: the HSBC Main Building turns 40, the Hong Kong Sevens and new beginnings

Our latest issue celebrates two key anniversaries - 40 for the HSBC Main Building and 50 for the Hong Kong Sevens - and new beginnings.

Art

This week in PostMag: artists from Spain, Hong Kong, Stockholm … and a farewell

Our Art Issue features Spanish photographer Coco Capitán, Stockholm-based Lap-see Lam, Hong Kong sculptor Gamzar and much more.

Hong Kong

This week in PostMag: a focus on women in film, sport, science and life

For International Women’s Day, we look at women as wives and mistresses, as marine researchers, as athletes, and as battlers against perimenopause.

Elizabeth Lo, director of the Mistress Dispeller documentary, on the cover of this week’s PostMag print edition. Photo: Jocelyn Tam
Chinese culture

This week in PostMag: Lunar New Year and the meaning of home

As the Fire Horse approaches, this issue looks at the emotional pull of tradition – from mahjong tables to ancestral villages.

Mahjong is enjoying a revival around the world. Photo: Jocelyn Tam
Macau

This week in PostMag: the many layers of Macau

This issue explores the profiles, places and passions that capture Macau’s past and present – from off-duty chefs to indefatigable storytellers.

Hong Kong

This week in PostMag: a Cantopop dance revival and a dream trip to the Bahamas

DJ Fabsabs leads a joyful Cantopop resurgence, Singapore does art with intention, and sun-drenched escapism beckons.

Christmas

This week in PostMag: festive tables, Cantopop and Christmas lights

As the holidays arrive, we reflect on food, memory, music – and the Hong Kong rituals that still anchor the season.

A festive tablescape by food stylist Gloria Chung features on the cover of this week’s PostMag print edition. Photo: Jocelyn Tam
Hong Kong

This week in PostMag: zines find their moment and Tasmania beckons

In the latest issue, we explore the city’s booming zine scene, and talk to author Lawrence Osborne about his Macau novel-turned-Netflix noir.

Zine publisher Cehryl, aka Cheryl Chow, features on the cover of this week’s PostMag print edition. Photo: Jocelyn Tam
Women and gender

This week in PostMag: women in charge, Shaquille O’Neal and Aryna Sabalenka

In the latest issue, we talk to Hong Kong women CEOs, basketball legend turned global businessman Shaquille O’Neal, and world tennis No 1 Aryna Sabalenka.

Hong Kong

This week in PostMag: collection obsessions for vinyl, watches and furniture

Why do collectors collect? What fires their passion for that rare timepiece, that limited edition record, that work of art, or that piece of furniture?

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Hong Kong

This week in PostMag: tech-inspired art, a sex tape and fading neon signs

AI and tech meets the world of art, another of Hong Kong’s neon signs is taken down, we delve into Indonesia’s forgotten nutmeg history, and two more artists display their sex tape.

Sun Yuan and Peng Yu’s artwork Can’t Help Myself (2016) features on the cover of this week’s print edition. Photo: Jocelyn Tam
Hong Kong

This week in PostMag: the Mariners’ Club returns, bistros boom, and Miffy

Hong Kong’s Mariners’ Club returns as a neighbour to the luxury Kimpton hotel, China’s hottest new food trend, and a destination to rival Amsterdam.

Hong Kong

This week in PostMag: a farewell to Metropol Restaurant after 35 years

Cuban artist Alejandro Piñeiro Bello shows at Pace Gallery and Hong Kong bids a bittersweet goodbye to Metropol Restaurant.

Hong Kong

This week in PostMag: from Hong Kong farmers to ‘aura farming’

We meet farmers weathering storms in Nam Chung, explore TikTok’s viral aura-boat craze, and taste Armenia’s reimagined traditions.

Nam Chung, in the northeastern New Territories of Hong Kong, features on PostMag’s cover this issue. Photo: Alexander Mak
Hong Kong

This week in PostMag: making rope skipping ‘cool’ and rediscovering Goa

Rope skipping may be finding a place in Hong Kong, while the layered history of Angkor continues to thrive, and Goa takes on new charm.

World champion rope skipper Timothy Ho Chu-ting, in Happy Valley, Hong Kong. Photo: Jocelyn Tam
Sustainability

This week in PostMag: sustainable luxury and tea steeped in tradition

Excellence doesn’t shout: a Cartier honouree, tea guardians, Omani artisans and bold authors prove quiet brilliance speaks the loudest.

Hong Kong

This week in PostMag: swimming holidays and cyborg cockroaches

Chinese-Peruvian cuisine in Lima, a Croatian getaway for those who like taking to the water, and remote-controlled cockroaches at Singapore Design Week.

Hong Kong

This week in PostMag: treats of the Tanka table and Asian comedians

The delights of indigenous Tanka cuisine that can still be found in Hong Kong, Asian comics blazing the stand-up trail, and a bike ride around South Korea’s Jeju Island.

Lam Lau’s boat noodles, in Aberdeen, Hong Kong, feature on this week’s print magazine cover. Photo: Jocelyn Tam
Hong Kong

This week in PostMag: ghostly signs of Hong Kong and Old Master Q

Find echoes of bygone Hong Kong still legible on walls and shopfronts, look back at a comic strip icon, and take a trip to a former East German city.

A ghost sign on the brick facade at Maykong Godown and Mayar Silk Mills in Tsuen Wan, in April 2024. Photo: Ben Marans
Japan

This week in PostMag: Hello Kitty creator Sanrio and a South African safari

A deep dive into Japan’s Sanrio and iconic creations including Kuromi, a walking safari in the Samara Karoo Reserve, plus Cuban cocktails.

Hong Kong

This week in PostMag: Hong Kong’s bamboo scaffolding and a Bali bone healer

See how the Venice Biennale is discovering an iconic Hong Kong builders’ craft, meet debut novelist Jemimah Wei, and try an Italian coffee with Chinese characteristics.

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