【Commentary】Overseas perspective: How long does Hong Kong’s bustling entertainment community have?

Does innovation stop when the ability to explore political themes ends entirely?

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Lee Faulkner | Expat and 2020 LegCo candidate - Supporting those who have allowed you to build a new life

Lee Faulkner, 50s, is a British-born actuary who moved to Hong Kong in 2011 after having previously lived in several other countries. In 2020, he joined a number of opposition candidates to run against incumbent legislators of several functional constituencies in the 2020 Legislative Council election, which has since been postponed until 2021.

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【SHARED】Nicolas Petit | ‘We write our future,’ Belgian street photographer tells Hongkongers

To Hongkongers, shopping at wet markets, crossing the Victoria Harbor by ferry, or gobbling up at a cha chaan teng (Hong Kong-style café) are just day-to-day activities that hardly deserve any attention. But to Nicolas Petit, who runs a street photography project called The Hongkongers (IG: @thehongkongers), these mundanities are exactly what make up a unique Hong Kong.

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【Video】K Kwong | Witnessing the sunset of an era: Desperation fuels persistence

K Kwong, renowned chemistry tutor and lecturer, retired into a quiet life until the anti-extradition movement when he went public and used his scientific knowledge to counter the fallacies propagated through the community. The future of humanity is worrisome—in this chaotic era, are science and knowledge a blessing or curse?

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Miss Woo Sze Yan | Remember our calling, protect our students, and defend our conscience

Woo Sze Yan is a secondary school disciplinary teacher. She is not the typical disciplinary teacher with a serious face, but rather exerts a kind and gentle vibe and shows firmness when protecting her students against the white terror in the society.

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【Video】Dare Media | Putting a price tag on publicity: Yell Card as a new form of collective expression

Vivian and her partners founded Dare Media in August 2019. Her team’s project ‘Yell Card’ produces trading cards of protest-related artwork drawn by different designers, promoting the commercialization of political art and graphic designs. Aiming to support designers financially as well as produce trading cards for physical records of the protest movement, the new editions of Yell Card are...

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Mathew Cheng|Founder of a Cantonese Mindfulness platform—Bringing Mindfulness closer to people

Mathew has been a meditation practitioner for over 5 years, with accreditation from courses on Mindfulness at several universities and meditation centres. In 2019, he chose Hong Kong as the starting point and established Mr. Stillness, an online platform providing Cantonese meditation training.

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【Video】Calif Chong | Filmmaker—Creating a collective database and capturing the Hong Kong spirit

Calif Chong is a filmmaker currently based in the UK. She worked as a scriptwriter at TVB and a documentarian for RTHK. A few years ago, she began her studies in Europe and started her career in the film industry, with the aim of finding a new way to tell the story of Hong Kong.

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【SHARED】Leung Lo Yik (Chen Kau) | Letter Writer

Chen Kau has been a letter writer for nearly 40 years. Originally from Vietnam, where he worked as an accountant for a film production company, he first came to Hong Kong in 1972 and took a job as a bartender. Given his education and proficiency in English, a customer suggested he become a letter writer.

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Organic Greenfield | Agriculture is an integral part of Hong Kong

Organic Greenfield, an extension of ‘Kong Yeah‘, is an organisation that advocates ‘Community Supported Agriculture’. Ho Ying and Nicole run the organisation and in 2017 they introduced the Organic Greenfield CSA Project. They have been devoted to building long-term cooperative ties with local farmers and producers, as well as playing a bridging role between them and the citizens.....

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【Video】Jason Ho | Gender studies researcher - Life after leaving academia

Jason Ho is a locally educated queer studies researcher. From a young man that happened to enter the University of Hong Kong to leaving in 2018 after teaching there for many years, he always thought that academia was his calling. Two years ago, he resolutely left for an administrative position at Hong Kong Baptist University which has led him to rethink life.

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Riz | Hardcore metal indie band guitarist daring to speak his mind through music

Riz is a Hongkonger of Pakistani descent. He formed a hardcore indie band called King Ly Chee (1999 - 2017) which was popular in Hong Kong and had a huge following in China. In 2015, he started an Asian punk, hardcore, and metal news website called UniteAsia.org. Then, in 2017, he started a new band called Dagger. He is a husband to a Hongkonger, a father and also a teacher.

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【SHARED】Lee Kin Ming | Traditional signboard font washed away by time of turbulence

“Cold and hot drinks”, “Marinated Vegetarian Meat”, “Signature Dish”, most signboards with street names and words about basic necessities of life are written by Mr. Li Hon. All the strokes of these handwritings are connected. This unique font is everywhere, however, the global pandemic shatters Hong Kong’s economy, no one can be spared...

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Koale | Body image and stigma in Hong Kong society

Koale is a Canadian HongKonger in her mid 20s and is a physiotherapist working at a hospital. She was born in Canada but has strong family and social ties to Hong Kong. As a teenager she was diagnosed with PCOS, a hormonal condition that can affect a person’s weight. Over the years, she has worked to prioritise her own needs and promote better understanding of body image issues.

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Hin | An arrested protester - When being young is a crime

Despite his young age, Hin has already been arrested twice. Even with several charges on him, he still stands as the vanguard of numerous protests without fear. For the sake of Hong Kong, he brushes off the many insults and taunts thrown at him by the Hong Kong Police Force.

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