March is the most exciting month in Hong Kong's cinematic calendar.
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When Sarah Shrimplin injured herself training for a marathon and couldn't join her son in the Beat the Banana! Charity Run on March 17, she immediately looked for a replacement, as she knew how...
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Every summer, the Verbier Festival, a classical music festival at the Swiss ski resort of the same name, runs a three-week immersion programme for young musicians. It gives promising players a...
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As announced in Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying's latest policy address, each of Hong Kong's 18 district councils is to receive HK$100 million for special building projects.
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Hong Kong's studios have relied on the international market to bolster profits since its first golden age in the 1930s. Chinese communities in Southeast Asia, Taiwan and pre-1950 mainland China...
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Hippocrates, the father of medicine, is said to have first suggested the healing power of food, when in 431BC he said: "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food." In the past decade, many...
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Winning one Caldecott award is reason enough to celebrate, but this year Jon Klassen took home two. His book This Is Not My Hat won the Caldecott Medal, the most prestigious US children’s book...
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The San Carlo Theatre of Naples is one of the world's oldest opera houses, and its production of Verdi's La Traviata was traditional in both its virtues and its flaws. Grand in scale and...
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The Lutoslawski Quartet was founded six years ago - no time in string quartet terms to develop a distinguished kind of sound that usually comes only after decades of dancing cheek to cheek with an...
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Editor's Pick
In this second episode of our Uniquely Hong Kong series, a third generation tailor tells us the history of qipao, and why the art of Chinese tailoring has a special place in his heart.
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Books
Winning one Caldecott award is reason enough to celebrate, but this year Jon Klassen took home two. His book This Is Not My Hat won the Caldecott Medal, the most prestigious US children’s book...
10:05AM
Arts & Culture
The Lutoslawski Quartet was founded six years ago - no time in string quartet terms to develop a distinguished kind of sound that usually comes only after decades of dancing cheek to cheek with an...
10:05AM
Family & Education
When Sarah Shrimplin injured herself training for a marathon and couldn't join her son in the Beat the Banana! Charity Run on March 17, she immediately looked for a replacement, as she knew how...
10:05AM
Health
Hippocrates, the father of medicine, is said to have first suggested the healing power of food, when in 431BC he said: "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food." In the past decade, many...
10:05AM
Fashion & Watches
Fiery designer Sonia Rykiel revolutionised the fashion world in more ways than one when she appeared on the Parisian scene in the 1960s.
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Beauty
Body scrubs are as much about exfoliating the skin as stimulating blood circulation for brighter, smoother skin. No matter which one of our picks you go for, make sure you massage areas which tend...
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Technology
More than 200 million years ago, toothy crocodile-like creatures stalked a hot, dry mega-continent while squid-like mollusks with spiral shells drifted in the surrounding ocean. Then, in what...
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Travel
The attractions of northern Tanzania are so plentiful, a museum marking the - or, at least, one - 'cradle of humanity' rarely gets a look in, writes Mark Footer.
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Interiors & Living
The designers let the art do the talking in one Repulse Bay family house.
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Motoring
The Volkswagen Golf first came on the market in 1974, to replace the iconic Beetle as the new "people's car". Although its sibling has been resurrected, there's no doubt that the Golf has been...
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Food & Wine
A traditionalist might argue that wine is too difficult to price and of too uncertain a provenance to be a sound investment. In fact, one asset manager, who refused to be named, implied that the...
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Magazines
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Fashion & Watches
"Sorry, I'll be with you in a minute," Alice Dellal says apologetically between mouthfuls of a late dinner, while trying not to burn her mouth.
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Food & Wine
Some of the world's finest chocolatiers have set up shop on the mainland in recent years, hoping to capitalise on the country's hunger for luxury goods. But to what extent sweet-toothed...
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Motoring
Are Asia's newest super-rich willing to ditch their weekend golf games in favour of thrashing supercars around a racetrack at a purpose-built resort on an island in the Yellow Sea?
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Travel
Rediscovered in 1911, the lost city of the Incas, Machu Picchu, now tops many a tourist's bucket list, writes Cameron Dueck.
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Arts & Culture
As announced in Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying's latest policy address, each of Hong Kong's 18 district councils is to receive HK$100 million for special building projects.
10:05AM
Books
Consume the Western media for any period of time and sooner or later you'll come upon a Funny China Story - reports on the consequences of the mainland's rapid and chaotic economic expansion that...
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Family & Education
Chris Fung Hong-way is trying to do his bit to help students also from Hong Kong struggling with their studies.
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Interiors & Living
Handmade - a "trend from the heart" - was widely identified as one of the hot interiors trends for this year. According to the tipsters, we will eschew mass-produced, cookie-cutter homewares in...
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Technology
Most people think counter-insurgency is all about men in masks kicking down doors and rappelling down from the roofs of buildings. Yes, the application of surgical violence is still key, but many...
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Horoscopeswith Shelley von Strunckel
TODAY'S BIRTHDAY
Aries: March 20-April 19
Out of character as it may be, tackling a plan slowly may be the best bet, judging by your birthday chart.
Chinese Zodiacwith Edwin Ma Lai-wah
TODAY'S ALMANAC
Auspicious for: entertainment
Bad for: contracts
Auspicious direction: east
Lucky colours: pink
Lucky numbers: 3, 4
CROSSWORD
Mar 26
SUDOKU
Mar 26
In Pictures
An expert examines a watch made by A. Lange & Söhne. Photo: SCMP
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- Food & Drink Henry Tang's wine auction A former Hong Kong politician sold off part of his rare wine collection for over $6 million, auction house Christie's says, after a scandal over a wine cellar at his home was partly blamed for his...
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- FACES Spring 2013
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- Music David Bowie's love affair with Berlin British rock icon David Bowie revives his love affair with Berlin in his first new album in a decade, out this month, and the city is returning his affections with fervent tributes to its adopted son.
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- Fashion Bold silhouettes at local fashion contest The Hong Kong Young Fashion Designers’ Contest 2013 awards ceremony took place 15 January, with UK-based Hong Kong designer Elizabeth Lin named Overall Winner. Organised by the Hong Kong Trade...
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