Being Allan Zeman
— July 31, 2018Hong Kong-based entrepreneur and tycoon Allan Zeman FCPA isn’t shy and is quick to spot opportunity – and dress up as a jellyfish. But there is more to him than meets the eye.
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Brandon Vera on the ‘hurt business’
— July 28, 2018The One Heavyweight World Champion talks about everyday violence, growing up brown in the black-and-white US South, and trying his hand at acting
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Becoming Chinese
— July 18, 2018Natasha Clausen talks about meeting the love of her life on a plane and why she and her pilot husband decided to get Hong Kong passports
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Annabelle’s must-reads
— June 9, 2018Bond’s list includes a book about a mountaineering tragedy that her friends thought she was mad to read before scaling Everest and the story behind one of the world’s biggest sporting brands
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American mum teaches her children to be Chinese
— June 8, 2018Patti Waldmeir, the Financial Times correspondent and author of ‘Chinese Lessons: An American mother teaches her children how to be Chinese in China’, explains why she decided to move with them to Shanghai
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Fritz Demopoulos’ must-reads for a desert island
— June 2, 2018Fritz Demopoulos might be a huge science-fiction fan but only one novel from the genre made it onto his list, joining books about archaeology, Middle Eastern adventures, Chinese legend and the internet’s gold-rush years
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The People and the Light in the Arctic
— June 1, 2018In one of the coldest regions in the world, the Sami have survived harsh elements of nature and even state repression to continue their way of living and preserve their culture and traditions.
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Australian turns detective to find her HK roots
— June 1, 2018After a lifetime of being asked, ‘Where are you from?’, Alison Choy Flannigan decided to find out; after many false leads, she traced her roots to a New Territories clan, and learned she belongs to its 26th generation
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Saving rhinos
— May 27, 2018From surveillance planes to witch doctors, conservationists and park rangers in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, are exploring every option in a desperate fight to save its rhinos, whose horns are worth more than their weight in gold
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Why this Italian travel writer hates selfie culture
— May 24, 2018Marco Ferrarese talks about the sense of adventure that brought him to Asia and why contemporary travellers make him sick
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Nashua Gallagher’s must-reads
— May 19, 2018Peel Street Poetry founder Nashua Gallagher’s list is a mixed bag of literary gems, from a Jane Austen classic to a comic book series that changed her view about the genre
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Dai pai dong an endangered species in Hong Kong
— July 21, 2014Dai pai dong are an important part of local culture, but are we doing enough to keep them alive
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Home swapping app
— December 14, 2019James Asquith holds the Guinness World Record as the youngest person to visit every country in the world Holiday Swap, an app that enables users to travel the world through home swapping for just US$1 per night, is experiencing accelerated growth and is eyeing the China market for 2020.Founded in 2017 by James Asquith, who…
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Leader of the pack
— February 1, 2016Tasked with building upon one of Hong Kong’s greatest success stories, Aron Harilela shares his vision for growing his father’s legacy, the family hotel business and why he thinks Hong Kong will continue to be a global economic hub
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One & Only, Cape Town
— March 23, 2014What is it? Not the one and only One&Only, funnily enough, although it is the original, from which a chain of luxury resorts has been built that stretches from North America to Australia (Sanya will soon see China’s first). It’s not often that a mountain view beats a sea view, but Cape Town, in South…
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Beach Boys’ Mike Love on life, loves and music
— March 13, 2016The co-founder of the Californian band tells Kate Whitehead about riding the fame wave.
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Mixed Fortunes
— January 31, 2017In her book Eurasians, MIT professor contrasts attitudes towards interracial marriage in three jurisdictions, and how mixed-race families in Hong Kong were able to grow wealthy despite facing discrimination