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Children’s book illustrated by Hong Kong foreign domestic helpers highlights bond between families and their ‘aunties’

Hong Kong is home to more than 350,000 domestic helpers, most hailing from the Philippines and Indonesia. Affectionately called “aunties”, many left their own children and elderly family members to …

Southern Chinese women who chose not to marry and became carers before there were foreign domestic helpers remembered in Hong Kong exhibition

by Haddis Thomas

Often living far from their families, many became respected figures in their hometowns as they sent money back to their parents and other family members. Mak (left) looks on as …

Hello, Love, Goodbye put director on Hong Kong’s radar. Now her new short film shows off city’s artistic side in a ‘romantic light’

by Haddis Thomas

Shot entirely in Hong Kong, the film – starring Kathryn Bernardo as Joy, a struggling domestic helper, and Alden Richards as a bartender – is the highest-grossing Filipino film of …