He may be 80 years old but this wooden cart-maker has no intention of hanging up his tools.
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Hong Kong - Not everybody wants to while away their retirement as the staff of the Gingko House restaurant explain.
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 Suzanne van der Erf
By Xi Chen & Suzanne van der Erf
Hidden beneath the Ten Thousand buddha Monastery in Sha Tin, is a family-run local honey producer - WingWo bee farm. After more than two decades of hard work, the small bee farm has prospered against fierce competition from foreign honey products... |
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By Ron Anderson, Fangjing and Pan-Pan
Beneath Hong Kong's looming office buildings and towering high rises, the 150 year-old Graham Street Market endures as one of the city's few living heritage sites. Elderly shoppers buy their groceries here daily, school children meet friends a... |
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Alison Jenner
By Alison Jenner, Swe Win, Fong Tak Ho
Hong Kong- March 17, 2009- JMSC - For many local residents, keeping songbirds as pets is an age-old tradition – especially among elderly men. The Yuen Po Bird Garden used to bustle with shoppers bargaining for exotic beauties, but these days, it is a pa... |
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 Kristina Perez
In Hong Kong where change and commotion characterize daily life, the Dai Pai Dong has been an odd point of stability throughout the years. A Dai Pai Dong is known for its iconic green steel roof, open air kitchen and plastic tables. Their reasonably priced traditional dishes draw customers from al... |
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Thanks to incessant discrimination he became the funniest man in Hong Kong. Vivek Mahbubani, a Hong Kong born Indian, explains how he made a
career out of a cultural heritage clash.
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Tin Shui Wai in Hong Kong is known as "the city of sadness." For Mickey and her brother Roy, it is home. The following is a multimedia soundslides
presentation about one family's experience living in a public housing estate in Hong Kong.
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Tai O has preseved a traditional style of life for hundreds of years, but now it is struggling to survive. The fishing industry is drying up, and the community was ravaged by the recent typhoon.
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Living in an old house without bathroom may drive someone mad, but an old couple are enjoying their lives there. The Blue House is one of the last pearl among the
old buildings which are preserved in Hong Kong. What is the Blue
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It is rare to find Cantonese opera performance in such a
modernized city, Hong Kong. Even Temple Street is
known for its well preserved traditional culture, Cantonese opera there is losing
their audience. Some amateur singers built up small performance booths to “pract... |
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Hong Kong's Nepali community is slowly but surely on its way out. Since the British army left, the former Gurkha soldiers and their families have found themselves unable or unwilling to integrate into Chinese society. And without Chinese language skills, their career options are severely... |
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Gong Siu-gau is 62 years old. He has been unemployed for over
ten years. He survives on a social welfare allowance of just $3,200 per month. The only housing he can afford is a cage.
Click below to watch and listen to a report on the cage-dwellers who live on the margins of Hong Kong soci... |
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It is hard for a century-old lifestyle like herbal tea drinking to survive in a modern city. Faced with increasingly more challenges, herbal tea shops have adopted different strategies - some started introducing new products while others stressed their medical values.
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Dim sum has long been a staple of Hong Kong culture, but can it last through the 21st century?
Holly Restaurant owner Peter Ho explains his vision and hope for the future of dim sum in Hong Kong.
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