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Young violin soloist captivates in Arvo Pärt work with Hong Kong string ensemble, veteran piano soloist doesn’t spare the horses in Grieg concerto

Young violin soloist captivates in Arvo Pärt work with ...

In Musicus Soloists Hong Kong’s evening of Nordic music, violinist Angela Chan’s...

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How an opera about Harpo Marx introducing Marmite modernist composer Arnold Schoenberg to Hollywood producer Irving Thalberg went down in Shenzhen, China

How an opera about Harpo Marx introducing Marmite moder...

A conference in Shenzhen about Arnold Schoenberg saw the Chinese premiere of Tod...

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Why Chinese readers are falling in love with Korean fiction – books adapted for K-dramas and movies, sci-fi, women’s literature, zombie thrillers

Why Chinese readers are falling in love with Korean fic...

More contemporary Korean books are being translated into Chinese as novels deal ...

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Ann Hui’s Ah Kam, starring Michelle Yeoh and Sammo Hung, and the accident Yeoh suffered on set that left director fearing she had broken her neck

Ann Hui’s Ah Kam, starring Michelle Yeoh and Sammo Hung...

Ah Kam, a 1996 film by Ann Hui starring Michelle Yeoh and Sammo Hung, combined r...

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The 15 best school K-dramas of all time, from Dream High and Boys Over Flowers to Weak Hero Class and Twenty-Five Twenty-One

The 15 best school K-dramas of all time, from Dream Hig...

From Boys Over Flowers to The Heirs, Weak Hero Class, Extracurricular and Twenty...

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Michelle Yeoh film gave him his first break, but typecast him too: Hong Kong actor Michael Wong’s early roles and how he rose above his critics

Michelle Yeoh film gave him his first break, but typeca...

Michael Wong’s early films in Hong Kong saw the Chinese-American actor treated l...

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Enough of Macau as exotic backdrop for movies like Indiana Jones – filmmakers are telling local stories now

Enough of Macau as exotic backdrop for movies like Indi...

Macau was long a backdrop for Hollywood movies such as Indiana Jones and the Tem...

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Netflix K-drama midseason recap: Strong Girl Nam-soon – tacky action comedy with more fat shaming and drug demonising than story building

Netflix K-drama midseason recap: Strong Girl Nam-soon –...

In this Netflix action comedy Lee Yoo-mi plays Gang Nam-soon, a young woman who ...

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How Russia’s George Orwell Library, founded by a Ukraine war opponent, is countering Kremlin propaganda and censorship to help Russians ‘feel free’

How Russia’s George Orwell Library, founded by a Ukrain...

Barbie screenings, books about dystopias such as George Orwell’s 1984: in Ivanov...

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Sammo Hung: from being Jackie Chan’s boss to honing Michelle Yeoh’s talent, 8 little-known facts about the Hong Kong martial arts star

Sammo Hung: from being Jackie Chan’s boss to honing Mic...

Actor, producer, martial artist – Sammo Hung has loomed large in Hong Kong’s fil...

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K-drama The Matchmakers: Rowoon and Cho Yi-hyun struggle to gel in stodgy period romcom

K-drama The Matchmakers: Rowoon and Cho Yi-hyun struggl...

K-pop singer Rowoon and All of Us Are Dead breakout star Cho Yi-hyun lead this s...

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Netflix K-drama Castaway Diva: Extraordinary Attorney Woo star Park Eun-bin steals hearts again in bewitching K-pop tale with Robinson Crusoe twist

Netflix K-drama Castaway Diva: Extraordinary Attorney W...

Castaway Diva stars Park Eun-bin (Extraordinary Attorney Woo) as a girl from the...

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How Hong Kong embraced movies about a cartoon pig, McDull, that celebrated the city and the never-say-die spirit of its people

How Hong Kong embraced movies about a cartoon pig, McDu...

My Life as McDull, animated movie about a humdrum pig, charmed Hong Kong film-go...

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Disney+ K-drama review: The Worst of Evil – gangster romance starring Ji Chang-wook and Wi Ha-joon recovers after a midseason lull

Disney+ K-drama review: The Worst of Evil – gangster ro...

Romance slows down Disney+’s crime K-drama The Worst of Evil starring Ji Chang-w...

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Crazy Rich Asians actor Harry Shum Jr on speaking Cantonese and Spanish growing up, still getting star-struck, and why he was in Hong Kong recently

Crazy Rich Asians actor Harry Shum Jr on speaking Canto...

Crazy Rich Asians actor Harry Shum Jr grew up in San Francisco watching Hong Kon...

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‘We didn’t know about the lives of Hong Kong people’: how a pictorial history of the then British colony changed a museum director’s life

‘We didn’t know about the lives of Hong Kong people’: h...

Brian Lam is a director of the Hong Kong Heritage Museum, but he started out tea...