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Lyricist, playwright and director Jia Ding. Photo: courtesy Opera Hong Kong

Director Jia Ding on reimagining Georges Bizet’s Carmen as a Hong Kong story

Artist's Studio
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This week, PostMag takes on an emerald brilliance with a cover designed to look like a “poison book” and stories destined to get under your skin. Illustration by Naomi Chan. Photo: Getty Images
A scene from “Hong Kong Story”, a new permanent exhibition at the Hong Kong Museum of History. Photo: Elson Li
Melissa Tedone, assistant professor of library and archives conservation at the University of Delaware, in the United States, holds a copy of Marmion, a Victorian-era book with a vibrant green, arsenic-based binding. Photo: Getty Images
Children play on an iron climbing frame in the new Wah Fu Estate, 1968. Photo: SCMP Archives
Students learn how to make watches at the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Studies, in Kowloon Tong, in 1999, when the process of manufacturing moving from Hong Kong to mainland China was well underway. Photo: May Tse
New Zealand’s Dallas Seymour powers his way through the mud as his team faces Hong Kong at the 1992 Cathay Pacific-Hongkong Bank Invitation Sevens at Hong Kong Stadium. The All Blacks won, obviously. Photo: SCMP Archives
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Zizi, a Chinese participant performing fire spinning at “Shambhala in Your Heart” festival. Photo: David Frazier
The north elevation of the completed building as seen from Statue Square. Photo: Ian Lambot
The Repulse Bay’s Easter campaign features a host of activities. Photo: courtesy The Repulse Bay
Cathay Pacific 747 with Lion Rock and Kowloon Walled City (1989), by Greg Girard. Photo: courtesy Greg Girard and WKM Gallery
Bryn Terfel, the bass-baritone. Photo: Rolex/Elisa Haberer
Tiger Mok, a solo finisher of the Rolex China Sea Race 2026. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

This Hongkonger just became the first solo finisher of a taxing sea race

Hong Kong
Multimedia artist Lap-see Lam draws inspiration from her multicultural background. Photo: Mattias Lindbäck
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Hong Kong artist Gamzar in his To Kwa Wan studio. Photo: Jocelyn Tam
The Bamboo Man sculpture by multimedia artist André Heller is lit up in readiness for its journey across Victoria Harbour in May 1992. Photo: SCMP Archives
Chow Yun Fat and Cherie Chung, photographed in 1987 by Greg Girard. Photo: courtesy Greg Girard and WKM Gallery
An adaptation of How to destroy something that never existed & how to rebuild something never destroyed (2022), from “Naïvy in 50 (Definitive) Photographs”, designed for our latest print edition cover by artist Coco Capitán. Photo: Coco Capitán
A bite of banana at Central Yards Edible Art Fair, where galleries pair art movements with real food. Photo: courtesy of Central Yards Edible Art Fair
Coco Capitán poses for a portrait at ArtisTree, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong ahead of her upcoming show. Photo: Jocelyn Tam

From pirate dreams to public text, a restless creative voice arrives in the city

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