Stories: Hong Kong

Stories connected to Hong Kong.

• Cotton-tree flowers kept drifting in. They were not in the script.While the Hong Kong film Papa was being shot, cotton trees were in bloom. Director Philip Yung said the falli…
• The actor knew sign language. Her character was a beginner.Actor Chung Suet Ying had learned sign language for family reasons before appearing in the Hong Kong film The…
• She escaped occupied Hong Kong. Then kept nursing across Asia.US-born Elsie Chin nursed the wounded during the 1941 battle for Hong Kong. After the Japanese occupation, sh…
• A bun tower race uses plastic bunsHong Kong’s Cheung Chau Bun Festival includes a tower-climbing contest to collect buns. The modern race retur…
• A cat needed a mail officerSimon, the cat aboard HMS Amethyst, resumed catching rats after recovering from injuries in the 1949 Yangtze…