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Will Poulter in a still from Warfare. Photo: A24

Entertainment

Review | Warfare, one of the most authentic combat movies of modern times

Alex Garland teams up with his military supervisor from Civil War for this survival tale based on the latter’s experience of the war in Iraq.

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Are ChatGPT’s Studio Ghibli-style AI images fun memes or copyright breach?

5 of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend, March 28-30

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Entertainment

Less American than The Sims, new life simulator inZOI targets Asian players

After 25 years of dominance The Sims has competition, informed by its cultural barriers for Asian players, in the shape of a Korean game.

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A screenshot from inZOI, a new life simulator game from Korean developer Krafton. Early reviews for the game, out on Windows, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, have been mixed. Photo: Krafton
A screenshot from inZOI, a new life simulator game from Korean developer Krafton. Early reviews for the game, out on Windows, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, have been mixed. Photo: Krafton

Entertainment

Profile | The life and legacy of Roman Tam, Hong Kong’s ‘godfather of Cantopop’

Roman Tam was a prolific recording and performing artist whose songs and extravagant stage shows made him a Hong Kong hero and LGBTQ icon.

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Arts

6 good reads about privilege, from The Great Gatsby to Crazy Rich Asians

A Wall Street satire by Tom Wolfe. Edith Wharton’s jab at high society. Six books that offer a sense of escape yet are strangely relatable.

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Why women-only ‘Mum’s club’ parties are taking off in nightclubs

With a man-free, no-pressure atmosphere and family-friendly hours, nightclub events for women take off in UK and Germany and now France.

‘Mum’s club’ party nights at clubs are taking off in Europe. The man-free events allow women to relax and have fun without worrying about getting their drinks spiked. Photo: Getty Images
‘Mum’s club’ party nights at clubs are taking off in Europe. The man-free events allow women to relax and have fun without worrying about getting their drinks spiked. Photo: Getty Images

Food & Drink

6 top Korean chefs’ favourite comfort foods and where to eat them in Seoul

From noodle soups to spicy seafood hotpots, Korean chefs of Michelin-starred restaurants share their comfort food picks.

K-drama

Why Park Bo-gum was ‘deeply moved’ by When Life Gives You Tangerines drama

‘The warmth in this story made me want to be part of it,’ recalls Park Bo-gum – so much so he postponed work on another drama to take it on.

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Food & Drink

All about vanilla, how to use it in baking, and a dessert recipe idea

Why is vanilla so expensive and how should I use it in the kitchen? Your questions answered, plus an indulgent recipe for meringues.

Dried vanilla beans. They come from a special type of orchid, the flower of which has to be pollinated by hand on the one day that it blooms. The pods then need to be dried and cured. Photo: Shutterstock

Entertainment

Meet Marcin, the guitar genius so good people think he’s faking it

Marcin Patrzalek, 24, plays percussion, melody and rhythm at the same time on his acoustic guitar, and is an Instagram sensation.

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Percussive finger-style guitarist, composer, and social media star Marcin Patrzalek. Photo: AFP
Percussive finger-style guitarist, composer, and social media star Marcin Patrzalek. Photo: AFP

Arts

International visitors return as Art Basel Hong Kong gets off to good start

International visitors return en masse as galleries voice confidence that the 2025 fair will be a significant improvement over recent years.

Food & Drink

13 of the best new places to eat and drink in Hong Kong in April 2025

From cheese omakase and Mongolian hotpot to Japanese skewers and limited-edition pastries, here’s what to look forward to in April.

Health & Wellness

Suffering from a migraine? Cinnamon may provide remedy, study suggests

Researchers in Seoul ease man’s chronic migraines using cinnamon after traditional drugs fail. They say it works by inhibiting inflammation.

Cinnamon could be a remedy for migraines, a new study suggests. Photo: Shutterstock

K-drama

Buried Hearts midseason recap: corporate melodrama without the drama

This revenge drama about a swindler who targets a powerful man, then loses his memory, has a few high points but mostly lacks excitement.

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Park Hyung-sik as Seo Dong-ju in a still from Buried Hearts.
Park Hyung-sik as Seo Dong-ju in a still from Buried Hearts.

Entertainment

Best movies to watch at the Hong Kong International Film Festival 2025

The 2025 HKIFF boasts a line-up of nearly 200 films to be shown over 12 days. Here is our pick of unmissable movies and programmes.

Arts

Art Week Shenzhen 2025 best exhibitions and events to visit

Those attending Art Basel Hong Kong have many reasons to squeeze in Art Week Shenzhen 2025, from a Jaffa Lam show to the opening of K11 HACC.

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Health & Wellness

How to beat insomnia and get a good night’s sleep

A sleep expert and recovering insomniac offers advice on World Sleep Day for people who lie awake at night worrying about not resting.

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Sleep restriction requires going to bed late, or later than usual, and getting up early. You might begin with just five-and-a-half-hours in bed and work up to six until you’ve found the optimum sleep amount for you. Photo: Shutterstock
Sleep restriction requires going to bed late, or later than usual, and getting up early. You might begin with just five-and-a-half-hours in bed and work up to six until you’ve found the optimum sleep amount for you. Photo: Shutterstock

K-drama

8 of the best new K-drama series to watch in March 2025

From IU’s turn as a rebellious Jeju island youth to a drama directed by Parasite co-writer Han Jin-won, here are the shows not to miss.

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Health & Wellness

The more your waist expands, the bigger the loss of brain capacity later on

A bigger midriff in our forties is linked to poorer cognitive function in our seventies, international study finds.

Entertainment

Profile | Fala Chen started out as a beauty queen. Now she’s a Hollywood star

From a chance pageant win to starring in international blockbusters, Fala Chen’s journey is a testament to her talent and determination.

Fala Chen on the red carpet for the premiere of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings in London in 2021. Photo: AP
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ComplexCon Hong Kong 2025 unveils a star-studded music lineup featuring headliners Metro Boomin and Zico. Photo: ComplexCon

ComplexCon Hong Kong announces Metro Boomin and Zico as 2025 headliners

A meeting of American and Asian hip-hop, the concerts also feature Quavo, Hong Kong favs MC Jin and Jace, and South Korea’s Changmo and B.I.

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Tilda Swinton hits Hong Kong to make the case for film preservation and praise the magic of old cinema. Photo: Courtesy of Chanel

Tilda Swinton brings star power to a conversation on classic Hong Kong films

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Food & Drink
Steamed scallop with vermicelli noodles and garlic at Genuine Hilton Lamma Fishing Restaurant.
Food and Drinks

Where a Hong Kong Italian chef eats seafood and late-night snacks

Marco Antonio Li Voti of Sabatini Italian restaurant shares his favourite places for Cantonese and Korean food, hotpot and after-work bites.

Hong Kong in 2nd, 3rd spots in Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants 2025 – full list

Profile | ‘If you survive, you’ve succeeded,’ says chef on hard-to-please Hong Kong

On Google Maps, actor Nicholas Tse lists go-to places to eat in Hong Kong

Google Maps asked Hong Kong actor and singer Nicholas Tse to list his favourite places to eat in Hong Kong using its new Shared List Feature, as the app marks its 20th anniversary. Tse will perform at the city’s new stadium in April. Photo: Google Maps

Take a hammer to a US$48,000 whisky? Scotch distiller’s smashing gimmick

The Glenrothes The 51 comes with a flathead hammer for buyers to smash the outer packaging with. Photo: The Glenrothes

Foodie K-pop stars spill the beans on favourite Seoul places to eat

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Members of K-pop girl group Itzy Chaeryeong (right) and Yuna bite into their favourite tacos in one of the episodes of their YouTube show 2SDAY. Photo: Itzy/YouTube

How weight-loss drugs are reducing snacking and lowering grocery bills

Nuts such as almonds and walnuts are an appropriate snack for people on GLP-1 weight-loss drugs such as Ozempic. Photo: Shutterstock
Health & Wellness
Marianne de Reynier Nevsky (left), the cultural mediation manager in Neuchâtel, and town council member Julie Courcier Delafontaine, chat about a new “museum prescription” programme outside the Ethnographic Museum of Neuchâtel in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, on March 19, 2025. Photo: AP
Wellness

Free museum visits for health? This town will give you the doctor’s note

A novel medical option encourages patients to get physical and intellectual exercise, while the arts have been shown to boost mental health.

Scared of needles? Blood-taking robots could provide painless solution

Here is why literally keeping your cool might help you live longer

Flex it like Beckham. Ex-soccer star builds muscles and braces for big 5-0

Buddhism as therapy? Korean psychiatrist’s treatment is built around it

Chinese culture
Wardour Street, Chinatown, London. The area, which dates back to the 1970s, has evolved over time to become the multicultural enclave it is now. Photo: Getty Images
Chinese culture

50 years of growth and cultural change in London’s Chinatown

Early Chinatown was a place of restaurants, underground gambling dens and brothels, but it has grown more affluent and diverse over time.

Chinese-Thai Phuket hotelier channels ‘true spirit of being Peranakan’

Contemporary Chinese ink artist tips hat to singer Anita Mui in show

Explainer | Ayurveda, TCM share approach to healing. How else are they similar?

Practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine and Ayurveda check a person’s pulse to help arrive at a diagnosis. Photo: Shutterstock

Cantonese opera or J-pop? Hong Kong’s Rika Woo does both. Here’s why

To some, Rika Woo is a J-pop singer. To others, she is a Cantonese opera performer. The Hong Kong artiste explains why she does both. Photo: Reuters

Explainer | What Journey to the West reveals about early China-India exchanges

A still from the Chinese TV series Journey to the West, which ran from 1986 to 2000. Wu Cheng’en’s 16th-century book still holds cultural importance in the modern era. Photo: CCTV

Chinese stories of California gold rush told in Hong Kong exhibition

A rattan suitcase from the Sojourning in Gold Mountain exhibition in Hong Kong.
Arts
Octopus (1864–66) by Victor Hugo in “Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo” at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Photo: EPA-EFE
Art

Victor Hugo art exhibition in London shows writer’s love of drawing

Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo highlights the famous French writer’s love of drawing in a show of 70 of his illustrations.

Free museum visits for health? This town will give you the doctor’s note

Fashion designers adore Snoopy. An exhibition reflects on 75 years of love

Japanese novel about a serial killer hailed as feminist overseas

Mammoths, bison in prehistoric cave art French keep under wraps

Entertainment
Takuya Kimura in a still from Grand Maison Paris.
Asian cinema: Japanese films

Review | Grand Maison Paris: Takuya Kimura goes to France in Japanese chef drama

TV show La Grande Maison Tokyo spin-off with Ok Taec-yeon and Kyoka Suzuki a feast for the eyes but not the ears as Kimura butchers French.

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Review | In 1st Kiss, Japanese time-travel romance, Takako Matsu woos a younger man

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The Potato Lab midseason recap: Lee Sun-bin, Kang Tae-oh in generic romcom

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Is all hope lost in Hollywood? The Studio on Apple TV+ tries to answer that

Olivia Wilde and Rogen in a scene from The Studio. Photo: Apple TV+ via AP

Review | Peg O’ My Heart: great visuals, awful story in Nick Cheung horror thriller

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Fala Chen and Nick Cheung in a still from Peg O’ My Heart (category: IIB, Cantonese). Directed by Nick Cheung and co-starring Terrence Lau.

Revelations director Yeon Sang-ho on exploring belief in new Netflix film

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Ryu Jun-yeol (left) in a still from Revelations. Photo: Netflix

Canadian rock giants Rush release 50-song box set for 50th anniversary

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Canadian rock giants Rush are celebrating 50 years with a 50-song box set. Above: the vinyl version of Rush 50 on display in a record store in the US state of Colorado. Photo: Instagram/soldoutvinylrecords
K-drama
Lee Sun-bin (left) as potato researcher Mi-kyung and Kang Tae-oh as Wonhan executive Baek-ho in a still from The Potato Lab. Like all Korean romcoms, Mi-kyung and Baek-ho’s relationship begins on the wrong foot.
Korean drama reviews

The Potato Lab midseason recap: Lee Sun-bin, Kang Tae-oh in generic romcom

The Netflix drama’s fun premise gives way to a run-of-the-mill story with developments that simply feel inconsequential.

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Revelations director Yeon Sang-ho on exploring belief in new Netflix film

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Review | Newtopia, zombie romcom with Blackpink’s Jisoo, misses the mark

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In Streaming, Kang Ha-neul plays someone ‘you don’t want to get close to’

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K-drama casting news about Wi Ha-joon, Ahn Hyo-seop and more

Travel & Leisure
Ormiston Gorge along the Larapinta Trail in the Australian outback. Photo: Shutterstock
Tourism

Outback hike reveals picture-perfect beauty of Australia’s Red Centre

A trail from Alice Springs takes hikers through a baking landscape of mountains, pools, plants and trees that inspired an Aboriginal artist.

Eating, shopping and entertainment highlights in London’s Regent Street

50 years of growth and cultural change in London’s Chinatown

Mammoths, bison in prehistoric cave art French keep under wraps

An ancient engraving in Cussac cave, France. Photo: AFP

French Polynesian cruise shows every storm cloud has a silver lining

Hive Oa tribespeople host a dance for Windstar passengers who detoured to the Marquesas Islands. Photo: TNS

Will Jeju Island feel ‘halo effect’ from filming of hit K-drama there?

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Park Bo-gum and IU in a still from When Life Gives You Tangerines.

On Google Maps, actor Nicholas Tse lists go-to places to eat in Hong Kong

Google Maps asked Hong Kong actor and singer Nicholas Tse to list his favourite places to eat in Hong Kong using its new Shared List Feature, as the app marks its 20th anniversary. Tse will perform at the city’s new stadium in April. Photo: Google Maps
Family & Relationships
Generation Beta is expected to span from 2025 to 2040. Photo: Shutterstock
Gen Z

From boomers to Beta, what do generational labels tell us about people?

Are Gen Z truly lazy? Will Gen Beta really suffer at the hands of AI? Experts talk about how generation labels do and don’t define us.

Self-love, not marriage or motherhood: Korean women spurn family life

Sadness, fear, even disgust? How young Koreans view marriage and childbirth

Men’s obesity risk triples if they’re married, new research finds

Could a ‘yes, no, maybe’ list reinvigorate your sex life?

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Bar Leone co-founder Lorenzo Antinori. Photo: Jocelyn Tam
Food and Drinks

Why neighbourhood bars in Hong Kong are gaining popularity

The city’s bar scene is shifting from high-end molecular mixology to cosy neighbourhood watering holes that offer a welcoming and community-focused atmosphere.

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for March 27-29

Dish in Focus: New Zealand coastal lamb rack and lamb fillet Wellington

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide for March 28-30

Omaroo’s rooftop bar in Hong Kong. Photo: Handout

Drink in Focus: 1881 at DarkSide

The 1881 cocktail from DarkSide’s new menu, Timeless Tales. Photo: Handout

Celebrating 100 Top Tables’ top restaurants and bars in Hong Kong and Macau

The staff of Socio at the the 100 Top Tables Tables 2025 Unveiling Ceremony and Awards. Photo: Jordan Chan

Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for March 20-22

The St. Regis Bar Jakarta’s Paulo Naranjo will work a guest shift at The St. Regis Bar Hong Kong, featuring this Lawyer’s Sour Deal cocktail. Photo: Handout