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Angelle Siyang-Le, the director of Art Basel Hong Kong. Photo: courtesy Art Basel
Art

Angelle Siyang-Le tells of her journey to Art Basel Hong Kong

The director of Asia’s largest contemporary art fair on finding her voice through art and immersing herself in the artistic community.

Food and Drinks

Profile | ‘If you survive, you’ve succeeded,’ says chef on hard-to-please Hong Kong

Food and Drinks

Profile | Chinese food? Hong Kong-born chef Tony Mok is redefining it

M+ museum of visual culture

This museum director built her life on art, music and islands

Suhanya Raffel, museum director of M+ in Hong Kong, has a passion for building world-class institutions, and despite identifying as ‘many things’, is a Hongkonger at heart.

Suhanya Raffel, museum director of M+ in Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District, photographed in M+. Photo: Jocelyn Tam
Hong Kong celebrities and icons

Profile | Fala Chen started out as a beauty queen. Now she’s a Hollywood star

From a chance pageant win to starring in international blockbusters, Fala Chen’s journey is a testament to her talent and determination.

Hong Kong

She tried several careers but found her niche in genetic sequencing

PostMag talks to 5 women innovators at the top of their game and pushing the boundaries of scientific discovery – here we meet Angela Wu, a professor at HKUST’s division of life science and department of chemical and biological engineering.

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Hong Kong science and tech

Round table: what can women in STEM do to lead change?

PostMag hosted a discussion between 5 Hong Kong-based innovators blazing a trail: Florence Chan, Angela Wu, Wendy Lam, Gina Jiang and Megan Lam.

Women innovators in science and tech (from left) Megan Lam, Wendy Lam, Angela Wu, Florence Chan and Gina Jiang. Photo: TMT
Artificial intelligence

Can AI help the blind navigate their world? This innovation may be the answer

PostMag talks to 5 women innovators at the top of their game and pushing the boundaries of scientific discovery: here we meet Florence Chan, co-founder and CEO of AI Guided.

France

This French circus performer’s curious life

She performs in her mother’s latest show Bells and Spells at the Hong Kong Arts Festival – and here talks about being part of Charlie Chaplin’s sprawling family.

Food and Drinks

The art of perfume-making whet this top chef’s appetite

Why eight-Michelin-star chef Anne-Sophie Pic’s philosophy of ‘suffusion’ is inspired by perfume-making, and she believes fine dining is ‘culturally important for your soul’.

Anne-Sophie Pic is a French chef best known for regaining three Michelin stars for her restaurant, Maison Pic, in southeast France. Photo: Jocelyn Tam
Hong Kong

Musician Bolis Pupul’s return to the home he never knew

Pupul’s latest album, Letter to Yu, is a love letter to his late mother inspired by her hometown, Hong Kong, and a reckoning with the roots he once tried to keep buried.

Musician Bolis Pupul pictured in Hong Kong in 2023. Photo: Bieke Depoorter/Magnum Photos
Hong Kong celebrities and icons

Profile | Sam Hui, the ‘father of Cantopop’ whose music and film roles struck a chord

He popularised Cantopop and helped revive Hong Kong cinema after Bruce Lee died. We look at the enduring legacy of the ‘Elvis of The Orient’.

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Books and literature

‘We’re on the world’s longest vacation’: author tells mum’s immigrant story

Connie Wang, author of the memoir Oh My Mother!, on growing up in America’s Midwest, telling her mum’s story, and working at Refinery29.

Hong Kong celebrities and icons

This rising star DJ’s secret sonic ingredients

Hong Kong DJ Gia Fu first discovered Latin music in Chinese culture while working for Wong Kar-wai’s production company – since then, she’s played Glastonbury and opened for Marc Anthony.

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===Extended for lead image==== DJ and founder of Canton Mambo Gia Fu. Photo: Kim Lo
Art

The end of Hong Kong’s golden age marked the start of her success

Artist Jaffa Lam’s practice describes a dynamic arc – like Hong Kong’s art scene itself – moving beyond cultural tradition to embrace the everyday and individual.

Visual artist Jaffa Lam at her studio in Fo Tan, Hong Kong. Photo: Eugene Chan
Food and Drinks

Recap | Meet the star Hong Kong chefs behind restaurants Plaisance, Mono and more

Explore the inspiring stories of renowned chefs Stefanie Leung, Masaaki Miyakawa, Mauro Colagreco, Grace Choy and Ricardo Chaneton, and discover their extraordinary gastronomic journeys.

Hong Kong

How Hong Kong filmmaker Fruit Chan found his way in the industry

The Hong Kong filmmaker on the horrors of Hollywood, working his way up and exploring the handover.

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Art

How a Hong Kong neon artist is making new waves in a sunset industry

A bright spark in a dimming world, Jive Lau – the artist behind Kowloneon – is preaching the gospel of neon lights to a new generation.

Jive Lau, founder of Kowloneon, pictured at his studio in Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong. Photo: Jocelyn Tam
Hong Kong culture

Cantonese opera star Mitche Choi on keeping the Hong Kong tradition alive

Mitche Choi knows a thing or two about being in a man’s world – the Cantonese opera star spent a career playing the male roles and modernising the highly traditional art form for today’s audiences.

Food and Drinks

How this bartender is bringing traditional Chinese medicine to cocktails

The West has been supping its medicinal liqueurs for fun for centuries: now, Dennis Mak has teamed up with a Chinese medicine doctor to turn Hong Kong on to the delights of TCM tipples.

Cantopop

Hong Kong singer-songwriter Kiri T on her own brand of Cantopop

The artist on being Asian in America and coming back to the home of Cantopop and her Hong Kong roots.

Singer-songwriter Kiri T. Photo: Jocelyn Tam
Hong Kong celebrities and icons

Profile | Faye Wong, actress, Cantopop diva and twice divorced mum

A ‘natural-born actress’, Wong Kar-wai said. The bestselling female Cantopop artist. Yet Faye Wong left it all behind to be a wife and mum.

Hong Kong singer-actress Faye Wong, wearing a high heel hat, performs in Hong Kong in 2003. Twice married and twice divorced, Wong walked away from her career in 2005, and has appeared only sporadically on stage since then. Photo: Reuters
Hong Kong sports

Recap | Hong Kong sporting heroes, from Siobhan Haughey to Derek Currie

Explore inspiring stories of top Hong Kong athletes, including Olympic swimmer Haughey, football legend Currie, open-water swimmer Hu, and more.

Celebrity Families

How Lucy Hale’s mum helped the Pretty Little Liars star get to Hollywood

The actress and singer’s supportive mother, Julie Knight, cashed in her retirement fund to move to Los Angeles, working nights and waiting in parking lots during her daughter’s auditions.

Paris 2024 Paralympic Games

How Hong Kong’s Ho Yuen-kei defied the odds on her way to Paralympics glory

The Paris gold medallist on finding her sport, advocating for wheelchair access and how she and her husband make each other whole.

Ho Yuen-kei, Paralympic boccia champion, was born with spinal muscular atrophy. Photo: Jocelyn Tam
Food and Drinks

Obituary | Chefs recall Margarita Forés, ‘kind-hearted’ and a ‘culinary icon’

The Filipino chef was voted Asia’s best female chef in 2016, and was a much-loved member of the culinary community.

Chef Margarita Forés, who died on February 11, aged 65, is remembered as a culinary force, and champion of Filipino and Italian cuisines. Photo: Handout
Icons and Influencers

How China’s rising fashion designer Cheney Chan is captivating global audiences

He made his unofficial debut at Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week last June, but his growing social media presence – 5.5 million Douyin followers and counting – has already made Chan a popular influencer.

Performing arts in Hong Kong

Profile | Chinese ballet dancer and social media star shows what’s behind the curtain

Hong Kong Ballet dancer Sun Jia’s viral video content has garnered her hundreds of thousands of fans across Douyin, RedNote and Instagram.

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