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15 great places to eat free food in Hong Kong ... providing you’ve bought a drink

Tasty Italian morsels, quality sandwiches, Asian specialities and decadent desserts – there’s something for everyone wanting a free appetiser to accompany their tipple

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Asian fashion rivals Western brands as customers take pride in home-grown labels

Half the world’s high-end fashion is bought by Asian consumers, most aged under 35, and they are increasingly confident in their own style and in Chinese, Korean and Japanese brands

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Outdated Hong Kong laws are holding back guide dog training, trainer says

More than 40 years after city got its first guide dog, those training them to help visually impaired people cannot have the dogs live with them in public housing and have no right to take them on public transport

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Surge in Chinese tourists drives rise in Antarctica visitors

In January 1966, the first ship carrying “citizen explorers” arrived in Antarctica. At the time, only a handful of leisure travellers had ever considered visiting the world’s most remote land mass.

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How old Hong Kong businesses have reinvented themselves for 21st century

Chocolate custard mooncakes. XO sauce. Machine-washable woollies. Innovation, some forward thinking and an injection of youth helped Kee Wah Bakery, Lee Kum Kee and Chicks undergarments maker stay relevant

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Why I feel assaulted by people eating on Hong Kong's streets

Everywhere you go there is the sound of chomping and slurping, moans Stuart Heaver. And don't get him started on cinemas and popcorn

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Why Hong Kong makes such a big deal of sea goddess Tin Hau’s birthday

Two months of festivities begin today for a goddess who no longer has many fishermen to bestow good fortune on but in whom landlubbers firmly believe. Here’s what Tin Hau means for indigenous culture

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Why Hong Kong shouldn't take clean, plentiful water for granted

Martin Williams goes underground and behind closed doors with Hong Kong's water engineers for a look at how they maintain supplies of fresh, clean water, and considers the past and future of the city's water management

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Hong Kong at centre of luxury cruise industry’s rapid Asian expansion

Cruise lines targeting the growing Chinese market see Hong Kong as ideal starting point for voyages, and for some, as home port for vessels that are getting ever bigger and better equipped

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How Hong Kong crime has changed over time, and what that says about the city

Exhibition marking 30 years of criminology programme at University of Hong Kong shows graduates’ work on issues such as triads, policing, and how crime patterns have evolved since the 1980s

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Hong Kong professor's sapphire-toughened screens win top invention prize

Geneva inventions show’s Grand Prix awarded to Baptist University’s Cheah Kok-wai for new method of toughening screens of mobile phones and other devices to avoid cracks and scratches

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Impressed - door-to-door dry-cleaning for busy Hongkongers

People shouldn't waste time doing laundry, service's co-founder tells Kylie Knott

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Tai Po: New Territories' answer to Central, but with bicycles and picnickers

New town is the place to go for a night or day out. With dozens of pubs, green lawns, clean water, and some of Hong Kong’s best markets, it is a destination made for recreation

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The Hong Kong urban adventurers for whom nothing is too tall, or deep, or spooky

Daredevils explore the city from all angles - most of them illegal - taking selfies atop skyscrapers or videoing their tours of an abandoned mine, a sunken ship, a derelict cinema, or a murder site

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Book now for Shaolin Fez: Unplugged, Chinese Opera Festival 2016, and more

Festival of Chinese opera features several works devoted to the Monkey King; Shaolin Fez are crowdfunding a charity album in aid of children in Syria; the Fiddlesticks will take kids on a musical journey

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Bollywood films no longer need song and dance, according to Shah Rukh Khan

The Indian film industry is changing and films no longer have to have a song and dance sequence to be successful, Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan says.

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Branford Marsalis' first Hong Kong gig – it's going to be a classic

Renowned New Orleans jazz saxophonist to make his debut in the city playing classical music with the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong