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From solitary confinement in China to self-exile in Taiwan: Inside a Hong Kong bookshop owner's fight to keep the free press alive
Lam Wing-kee's Causeway Bay Books moves to a new location in Taipei, striving to offer books critic…
Huileng Tan
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He left his desk job in the US to run a food stall in Hong Kong. He earns more now but plans to walk away from it soon.
Hong Kong's dai pai dong food stalls are facing extinction. The remaining licenses are only transfe…
Faye Bradley
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Hong Kong parents pay me $40,000 to get their kids into top US colleges. Helping families cope with the stress of admissions is a big part of my job.
A private tutor in Hong Kong says his job helping kids abroad with US college admissions includes m…
Kai Xiang Teo
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Smokers in Hong Kong are facing a new risk in addition to health problems — public shaming
Smokers in Hong Kong may soon be uncomfortable lighting up thanks to a call for residents to stare …
Sebastian Cahill
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I've spent the past decade tutoring old-money families in Hong Kong. There are 3 things I've learned about the world of big money in Asia.
For the ultrarich, private tutoring is about ensuring that the curse of "one generation to make it,…
Kai Xiang Teo
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Exotic turtles have been poached to near-extinction in Asia, but in Hong Kong, these species thrive
Three species of turtles poached for sale in Asia are finding refuge in Hong Kong. But poachers cou…
Hannah Getahun
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Meet the typical Hong Kong millennial: They're supporting their parents, can't afford to buy homes, and have zero interest in moving to mainland China
Millennials are the last generation born before the July 1, 1997, handover of Hong Kong from the Un…
Faye Bradley
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How China turned a Tiananmen Square memorial into one of the most sought-after sculptures in the world
The "Pillar of Shame" was meant to spread all around the world. It didn't — until now, thanks…
Cezary Podkul
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Hong Kong's leader vows to roll out special visas for graduates from top universities and people who make more than $300,000 a year
The news comes after 110,000 people left Hong Kong from mid-2021 to mid-2022 amid strict COVID-19 c…
Huileng Tan
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Sri Lanka hospital capacity reaches 'tipping point' as the country records its highest COVID-19 toll in a day
With the new figure, Sri Lanka's overall caseload and death toll stood at 3,18,775 and 4,727, re…
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Former US officials want to put a copy of a Tiananmen Square memorial sculpture across the street from China's embassy in DC
The artist of the sculpture has been inundated with requests for copies of the "Pillar of Shame" si…
Rebecca Cohen
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3 charts show why Hong Kong is suffering the deadliest Omicron wave in the world right now
Most of the deaths in Hong Kong are in patients who are over 80, and unvaccinated. Until Omicron ap…
Hilary Brueck,Andy Kiersz
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Hong Kong's 'Pillar of Shame' statue, which commemorates the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre, was removed in the middle of the night
The "Pillar of Shame" was erected in 1997, the same year Hong Kong was returned to China. Its remov…
Matthew Loh
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Omicron spread about 70 times quicker than Delta in human bronchial samples, a lab study found
Scientists at the University of Hong Kong compared Omicron's behavior in tissue samples to that of …
Marianne Guenot
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The Omicron variant appeared to spread between two fully vaccinated people in separate hotel rooms in Hong Kong, early research suggests
Researchers at the University of Hong Kong said the variant most likely spread across a corridor in…
Natalie Musumeci
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I felt extremely safe visiting Hong Kong Disneyland - but not because of Disney's COVID-19 precautions
The comforting safety measures didn't come from Disney, but from Hong Kong itself, where rates of t…
Charles Clark
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I studied at Yale and Cambridge University. The elite colleges offered me secret societies, maids, and formal balls.
A student attended Yale and Cambridge and was amazed at the elite privileges, like secret societies…
Connie Cheung
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Oxford is asking students specializing in China to submit papers anonymously so they don't fall foul of Hong Kong's draconian national security law
Harvard Business School and Princeton have also taken steps to protect students of Chinese politics…
Bill Bostock
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Meet the CEO of Finblox, a Hong Kong-based crypto lender serving a region with some of the highest fintech adoption in the world
Peter Hoang is a YC alum who has raised $4 million for his crypto-investment firm Finblox, which ha…
Katie Canales
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US warned Hong Kong against providing a 'safe haven' for sanctioned oligarchs after a $500 million superyacht docked in the city's harbor
A US state department spokesperson told the FT Hong Kong's harboring of the sanctioned yacht called…