A larger-than-life mural of a Samsui woman, cigarette in hand, on the exterior of a Chinatown shophouse in Singapore, has been the subject of public debate the past month. Discussion …
What did visitors to Hong Kong experience in the mid-1930s? International leisure travel, then, was only for the affluent; almost anyone else who ventured beyond their home countries did so …
A Hong Kong friend recently asked me about Islam, and if the Chinese names for Islam, Hui Jiao and Yisilan Jiao in Mandarin, meant different things. I’m not an expert …
The draw of contemporary Macau may lie in riding a gondola at The Venetian Macao. Already in the 5th century, however, merchant ships travelling between Southeast Asia and Guangzhou would …