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Hey! Grooving On The Dance Floor In Hong Kong In The 1960s & 1980s
08-06-20 Dance is a box of Vosges Haut-Chocolat that brings people together with 7 joys: music, body movement, drama, artistic beauty, creativity, passion and costume ideas. The side effect of dance, particularly intimate form, is love which may arrive at a sweet marriage of a pair of partners. People may dance for money, like stage…
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Life Is Made Up Of Funny Little Things And Only The Lucky Ones Can Feel—Hong Kong Accomplished Comic Artist Maggie Lau
15-05-20 Comic books are a reflection of the happy and the sad. They also mirror the good and the bad. Comic artists tell you how they feel about the world by their characters. Mickey Mouse is happy and good. The boys of South Park are happy but bad. Spider-Man is sad but good. The Joker…
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The Lonesome Tussle of A Hong Kong St. Stephen’s Girl In London Against The Theatre World: Lilian Tsang
18-06-20 A Hong Kong girl called Lilian, alone in London for her stage actress career, has fought many battles, most beyond her control and is still fighting to survive. Everything about her sounds moving. She is a wildflower and her dreams are in the same direction but forced to ‘go with flow’. If not for…
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Shall We Turn Against Face-To-Face Meeting & Embrace Online Conference?
05-05-20 The coronavirus pandemic changed the world. Everyone is going online. Old ways of doing business have been disrupted. There will be no turning back when we believe virtual meetings and transactions are faster, cheaper and more productive than face-to-face interactions. Research shows that in a face-to-face meeting, people tend to talk more informally and…
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It’s Time To Fundamentally Upgrade The Way That We Do Things In Hong Kong Through Creative Thinking—Edmund Lee, Executive Director Of Hong Kong Design Centre
19-05-20 Creative thinking(創意思維) is not the same as creativity(創作). It is about how anyone of us can solve a problem or understand an issue differently and imaginatively at work or in life. Barack Obama said, “To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is…
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STARTUPS ARE NOT FOR MONEY, BUT FREEDOM BEYOND MONEY
20-4-20 With the coronavirus economic recession, we are like facing World War III. We are ransacked by devastating declines in GDP, real income, employment, service production and retail sales. The Irish said, “Don’t grieve for me, for now I’m free! I follow the plan God laid by me.” Now, you are poor and get nothing…
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6.6.3. Interview by THE DESK 2020
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THE OLD OLD CHERRY OF HOME: ROMANTIC TSIM SHA TSUI OF HONG KONG IN THE 50S & 60S
06-04-20 Hong Kong is small. We do not have hometowns. We have ‘home districts’. We miss our home districts. Where we came from is now gone. But, your heart is obsessively held by the beautiful district that you cannot forget. Let us examine the old old districts of Hong Kong, say around 100 years ago.…
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“IT IS A BIG MISTAKE TO THINK OF A MARKET WITHOUT A NEW MARKET!” ——HONG KONG TV PATRIARCH NG YU COMPARES ART AND ENTERTAINMENT MARKETS
12-04-20 One market leads to another. Doors are all locked when we cannot keep our own market. Instagrammer Caleb Hsu made this point, “When aesthetic purpose precedes exposure and sales considerations, art wins over entertainment. It starts with artistic intention and results in audience response. Entertainment is more about artifice, whereas art has a strong…
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‘WHY ARE HONG KONG MEN CHARMING IN OUR OWN WAYS?’—ANDREW PONG, THE DEVOUT ARTIST WORSHIPER OF BRUCE LEE
31-03-20 It is more than a self-consolation. Men do not have to be handsome. A charming man gets more proposals than a handsome man. Men in Hong Kong, a female-dominating society, often feel small as we may not have a face with clean-cut features such as the Japanese. We are not as tall as the…