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Annual festivals make living in Hong Kong fun, but for this Briton November 5 wasn’t the same without Guy Fawkes Night, when bonfires and fireworks mark the foiling of a bomb plot in 1605.
From becoming a global astronomy research hub to seizing fast-growing opportunities in the Greater Bay Area, the city’s future appears bright.
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City Beat | City Beat: Events like the Dragon Boat Carnival can cure declining tourists to Hong Kong
Take the Dragon Boat Carnival for instance. It was a perfect opportunity to showcase Hong Kong as a unique world city.
Hongkongers, tourists don elaborate outfits to win fancy dress competition on final day of international event’s return to city after four-year hiatus.
Two-day event, jointly organised by Tourism Board and Hong Kong China Dragon Boat Association, features more than 4,000 contestants.
Attendance of 100,000 expected throughout day for Sun Life Stanley International Dragon Boat Championships 2023.
The fifth day of the fifth lunar month marks Dragon Boat Festival in Hong Kong, but the day is celebrated in different ways across East Asia. We look at some of the traditions and the meanings behind them.
Messi’s mid-afternoon appearance brought over 2.5 million viewers to the site, which is locked in fierce competition against ByteDance and PDD.
Quarantine caused world championships to be moved, but local body’s chairman says city can stage 2027 edition if government ends the policy, adding ‘we cannot afford so many maybes’.
It is the latest event to be cancelled in Hong Kong, a day after Hong Kong Marathon was called off and Oxfam Trailwalker was denied a permit by the government.
The dry dock has been flooded so the vessel can be floated, and banners with political slogans and flags can be seen on the warship.
People in China debated an old Dragon Boat Festival custom in Guangdong that requires women to stay away from the races when men pass under the bridge so they do not “offend the gods”.
Analysts attributed the decline in takings to Covid-19, which has affected cinema opening times and the scheduling of new films.
Tourism trips and revenue during China’s three-day Dragon Boat Festival holiday have failed to show a major turnaround in consumption, even as the government moves to ease tight zero-Covid controls.
Places such as Guangzhou were able to hold the first races to mark the Dragon Boat Festival since the start of the pandemic
Traditional Tuen Ng Festival event cancelled in past two years because of Covid-19 pandemic.
We eat sticky rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival, but is it really because of an ancient Chinese legend? They’re eaten elsewhere in the region too. Hong Kong chefs tell us the best ways to appreciate them.
A family in central China has used the annual Dragon Boat Festival to reconnect every year and bond.
From elevating the neglected Tanka community to bringing their dragon boat races to the masses, Charles Thirlwell’s legacy still resonates in Hong Kong
Hongkongers keeping traditions alive and passing on their wisdom while being part of such a modern, cosmopolitan society sets the city apart from many other places in the world.
‘Merdeka paddlers’ is the first group from country to compete in traditional event, which has been watered down this year due to social-distancing rules.
Hard-up residents turn to the service, looking to cash in on demand for trips increasing by nearly a third among app users.
Chinese consumers were less willing to spend money in May than March, when large parts of the country were still under coronavirus lockdown, a new survey shows.
