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— February 28, 2017Intelligence Squared’s cultural debate will look at the pros and cons of social media and its place in the evolution of the way people look at art
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US immigration debate
— February 22, 2017Shanthi Sekaran – herself the child of immigrants to the US – dramatises a hot-button issue with her story of Soli and Kavya
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Pay: have the rules of reward changed?
— February 6, 2016Pay rises in parts of Asia are likely to barely hover above inflation in 2016. Is it time to permanently rethink the way we reward employees?
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Why toilet paper becomes a hot ticket item in a crisis
— February 25, 2020The panic buying seen in the past few weeks as people rush to stock up on essentials during the coronavirus outbreak caught Hong Kong by surprise. First it was face masks – understandable given the nature of the virus – but then it was rice and toilet paper. We’ve seen people queuing overnight for goods, there was…
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In Hong Kong, going into quarantine is more likely than catching Covid-19
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Generation Hex
— December 11, 2017Pulitzer Prize winner ponders the burden for only children of caring for their elderly parents, and talks about why publishers in Hong Kong and Taiwan wouldn’t touch her book One Child and why she funded its Chinese translation
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Rob Wagemans
— June 28, 2017Founder Rob Wagemans’ designs are changing perceptions of how hotels, shops and now a Hong Kong residential tower should be