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Hong Kong’s 3-day electronic dance music festival Shi Fu Miz 2023 on Cheung Chau island to feature more than 60 DJs and musical acts

Hong Kong’s 3-day electronic dance music festival Shi F...

Electronic dance music festival Shi Fu Miz 2023 on Hong Kong’s Cheung Chau islan...

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Ranked: the 10 best films of Chinese director Zhang Yimou, from One Second and Hero to Raise the Red Lantern and Red Sorghum

Ranked: the 10 best films of Chinese director Zhang Yim...

Zhang Yimou has directed wuxia epics (Hero, Shadow), comedies (One Second, Keep ...

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Reprint of sleazy 1960s travel guide to ‘blatant sex capital’ Taipei paints a very different picture to today’s city

Reprint of sleazy 1960s travel guide to ‘blatant sex ca...

Taipei After Dark was a sleazy guide to nightlife in Taiwan’s capital published ...

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How Woody Allen fan Joe Ma channelled John Hughes and Peter Chan for Feel 100%, 1990s Hong Kong youth romance starring Ekin Cheng, Gigi Leung and Sammi Cheng

How Woody Allen fan Joe Ma channelled John Hughes and P...

Woody Allen and The Wonder Years fan Joe Ma’s youth romance Feel 100% launched t...

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Netflix’s Lupin season 3 – worth the wait? Things to look forward to, from robberies to a pretty-as-a-picture Paris

Netflix’s Lupin season 3 – worth the wait? Things to lo...

Is the third season of Netflix’s French mystery thriller Lupin, starring Omar Sy...

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How reading Leo Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina, and writing about it, changed the life of Hong Kong museum director Lynn Fung

How reading Leo Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina, and writ...

Reading Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy’s novel of ‘immense beauty’, taught Lynn Fung...

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How Ip Man director Wilson Yip made his name with offbeat Hong Kong movies, from Bio Zombie to Bullets Over Summer and Juliet in Love

How Ip Man director Wilson Yip made his name with offbe...

Famous for directing the Ip Man films, Hong Kong director Wilson Yip started out...

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Busan 2023: Because I Hate Korea movie review – muddled addition to trend of films about Korean diasporic experience sees Ko A-sung play a free spirit

Busan 2023: Because I Hate Korea movie review – muddled...

Ko A-sung stars as Gye-na, a young Korean woman who moves to New Zealand to star...

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Hong Kong Asian Film Festival 2023: 11 of the best movies to catch, from Song Kang-ho vehicle Cobweb to Perfect Days, Koji Yakusho’s award-winning collaboration with Wim Wenders

Hong Kong Asian Film Festival 2023: 11 of the best movi...

From Junta Yamaguchi’s River to Song Kang-ho’s Cobweb, here are 11 of the best m...

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Fuchsia Dunlop on giving Chinese food its due as ‘a very sophisticated cuisine’ in her latest book, Invitation to a Banquet

Fuchsia Dunlop on giving Chinese food its due as ‘a ver...

Fuchsia Dunlop, award-winning cook and writer, wants people around the world to ...

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Why Michelle Yeoh’s Hollywood movie career was full of false starts, and Tomorrow Never Dies and Memoirs of a Geisha brought fame but no fortune

Why Michelle Yeoh’s Hollywood movie career was full of ...

Michelle Yeoh is a Hollywood darling now, but Tomorrow Never Dies and Memoirs of...

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Father-son duo on sharing their passion for authentic Chinese food, first on YouTube as the Hunger Pangs, and now in A Very Chinese Cookbook

Father-son duo on sharing their passion for authentic C...

Jeffrey and Kevin Pang thought they had nothing in common – until food came into...

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4 of K-pop singer IU’s best K-movie roles as her concert film IU Concert: The Golden Hour comes to cinemas

4 of K-pop singer IU’s best K-movie roles as her concer...

K-pop star IU’s concert film IU Concert: The Golden Hour opens this week, but sh...

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Disney+ K-drama review: Moving – fantastic 5-star superhero saga reaches epic finale that moves us to tears

Disney+ K-drama review: Moving – fantastic 5-star super...

Disney+ K-drama Moving gets a perfect score for lifting comic-book pulp to epic ...

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Gay Games Hong Kong co-chair on the ancient Chinese text that helped her embrace being a lesbian

Gay Games Hong Kong co-chair on the ancient Chinese tex...

Lisa Lam, co-chair of the Gay Games Hong Kong, says the Zhuangzi, a foundational...

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How masters of traditional Cambodian instruments are helping heal a land still recovering from the horrors of genocide

How masters of traditional Cambodian instruments are he...

The Khmer Magic Music Bus takes masters of traditional Cambodian instruments and...