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Hong Kong actress Helena Law at an interview with the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong’s Ho Man Tin neighbourhood in 2000. Law established herself as a Hong Kong TV show regular during the 1970s, but it wasn’t until 1993, when she was 58, that she played the villainous character she would become best known for. Photo: Dickson Lee

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Profile | How Helena Law Lan, 91, became Hong Kong cinema’s grand dame of horror

Law was a Hong Kong TV staple in the 1970s, but it wasn’t until later that she became a cultural icon playing mystical villains in films.

Loved Heart of the Beast? 10 more great movies where the dog takes the lead

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Pakistani-made ‘micro film’ scoops top prize at Asian festival’s Hong Kong final

Arts

Metal meets Mongolian throat singing and instruments in Uuhai’s Hong Kong debut

In Hong Kong for the Asia+ Festival, Uuhai want to expand the world’s understanding of Mongolia and its culture beyond Genghis Khan.

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Zorigoo Battsooj of Uuhai, who plays the horsehead fiddle (morin khuur) and performs throat singing. The Mongolian folk metal band will play in Hong Kong as part of the Asia+ Festival on September 23 and 24. Photo: Uuhai
Zorigoo Battsooj of Uuhai, who plays the horsehead fiddle (morin khuur) and performs throat singing. The Mongolian folk metal band will play in Hong Kong as part of the Asia+ Festival on September 23 and 24. Photo: Uuhai

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Review | Heart of the Beast: Brad Pitt and his loyal dog brave the Alaskan wilderness

Brad Pitt is good but his canine companion is better in this story about an ex-soldier and his former combat dog’s battle to survive.

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Chinese culture

Few still make Mid-Autumn Festival lanterns the classic way. This artisan does

Hong Kong lantern artisan Wan Wong explains why she keeps the traditional craft alive, barriers she faced as a woman and the key techniques.

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Travel & Leisure

From Star Wars to Banksy, 7 must-sees at new Lucas Museum of Narrative Art

Seeing everything at George Lucas and Mellody Hobson’s huge new Los Angeles museum in one day is a tough ask, so here are some highlights.

A statue of Yoda and Grogu from the Star Wars franchise stands in the courtyard outside the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art at Exposition Park in Los Angeles, California. Photo: EPA
A statue of Yoda and Grogu from the Star Wars franchise stands in the courtyard outside the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art at Exposition Park in Los Angeles, California. Photo: EPA

Health & Wellness

All about Hong Kong’s herbal teas and how Gen Z is reviving the health tradition

These century-old ‘leung cha’ cooling teas for ailments such as excess internal heat are finding new fans among health-conscious Gen Z.

Entertainment

Why Oliver Stone’s Snowden remains a terrifying surveillance warning 10 years on

We revisit the 2016 film about NSA analyst Edward Snowden, who leaked mass surveillance programmes and was branded a traitor by the US.

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Travel & Leisure

David Chang takes detours on a culinary road trip across the US

The Korean-American chef hits the open road in search of hidden gems, from Filipino food in Las Vegas to a Haitian restaurant in Miami.

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David Chang in a scene from The Detour with David Chang. The new CNN travel show invites viewers on an off-the-map culinary road trip. Photo: CNN via AP

K-drama

Review | The Scandal: Son Ye-jin, Nana shine in Netflix’s Dangerous Liaisons adaptation

Netflix’s The Scandal reimagines Dangerous Liaisons in Joseon-era Korea, exploring seduction, power and societal constraints.

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Nana (left) as young widow Ahn Hui-yeon and Son Ye-jin as noblewoman Lady Cho in a still from The Scandal, a re-imagining of the 18th century novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. Photo: Jun Hea-sun/Netflix
Nana (left) as young widow Ahn Hui-yeon and Son Ye-jin as noblewoman Lady Cho in a still from The Scandal, a re-imagining of the 18th century novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. Photo: Jun Hea-sun/Netflix

Entertainment

From Cheng Pei-pei to Michelle Yeoh, Hong Kong’s history of action heroines

Hong Kong studios embraced female action stars long before Hollywood. Here’s how some of the biggest triumphed in wuxia and kung fu films.

K-drama

A Love Other Than Yours: Seo Kang-joon, Ahn Eun-jin face 10-year itch

Seo Kang-joon and Ahn Eun-jin play a long-term couple yet to tie the knot whose relationship is challenged when newcomers enter their lives.

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Lifestyle

Leslie Cheung exhibit; Hong Kong’s Gen Z coffee boss: 7 Lifestyle highlights

From famous Chinese women in folklore to Year of the Horse eighth month predictions, here are seven stories from SCMP’s recent reporting.

Exhibits are displayed at “Miss You Much. Leslie 70th Birthday. Exhibition” at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum, which marks the 70th anniversary of Leslie Cheung’s birth. The exhibition features more than 300 rare items, stage costumes and recreations of interiors from Cheung’s former residences. Photo: Karma Lo

Chinese culture

The tragic Qing politician whose legacy lives on in descendant’s new novel

The life of Duanfang inspires E.L. Shen’s novel Foreigners, about identity, queer awakening and the immigrant experience in modern America.

Chinese politician Duanfang (left) and his great-great-great-granddaughter E.L. Shen, a Chinese-American author whose new novel Foreigners follows three family members in different times who experience marginalisation in China and modern America. Photos: Wikipedia, Cassie Vu
Chinese politician Duanfang (left) and his great-great-great-granddaughter E.L. Shen, a Chinese-American author whose new novel Foreigners follows three family members in different times who experience marginalisation in China and modern America. Photos: Wikipedia, Cassie Vu

K-drama

The Ordinary Jackpot: Lee Joon-hyuk hides a lottery win in workplace K-drama

Lee Joon-hyuk plays a timid office worker who decides to stop bottling up his emotions after a significant lottery win changes his life.

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Arts

Review | Benjamin Grosvenor joins Hong Kong Sinfonietta for a memorable night

Norwegian Radio Orchestra conductor Holly Hyun Choe led proceedings on an evening starring Grosvenor playing Brahms’ ‘Piano Concerto No 1’.

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Photo trove offers window on life in China’s wartime capital Chongqing

A man descends one of Chungking’s many stone staircases on a mule. Photo: A Danger Shared/Melville Jacoby
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Behind the scenes of classic 1987 movie The Last Emperor in photos

Wu Tao, a Beijing born student who had never acted before, played Pu Yi at age 14. Peter O’Toole took the role as his tutor quite literally, and started teaching Wu some basic acting techniques beginning with their first scene together. Photo: Basil Pao
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Wonders old and new in China’s Greater Bay Area, land of opportunity

The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge (HZMB) links Hong Kong to the western part of the Greater Bay Area. Photo: Huang Kunzhen
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Instantly familiar, strangely foreign: photos of 1970s Hong Kong

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