Kelvin Ho-Por Lam, 40s, is a former economist who was elected as the independent democratic councillor for the South Horizons West Constituency in 2019 and also ran to represent the Financial Services functional constituency in the now cancelled 2020 LegCo election. Having moved to the UK as a child, he returned to Hong Kong in 2015 in the aftermath of the Umbrella Revolution.
Read MoreThe Hongkonger spirit of helping one another continues to guard and guide our city’s recovery from polarization to pandemic.
Read MoreWalking into Kowloon Walled City Park, it isn’t difficult to spot the older man chatting with citizens and tourists alike. This is Lei Sing-man: he goes by Uncle Man and wears a “volunteer guide” label on his chest. After moving to Kowloon in 1998, he became interested in the horticultural design and heritage of the park, and shouldered the mission to pass on its history.
Read MoreAs at Dec. 31, 2018, only 386 newsstands were left from the 1,005 that existed in the ’90s. Newspaper hawkers believe that the industry is vanishing.
Sociological scholar Chong Yuk-sik, who published her thesis “The Newsstands at the Street Corner” in 2010, has been investigating the culture and history of the city’s licensed newsstands.
Read MoreLee Kin Ming is the founder of ‘Li Hon’s street calligraphy conservation project’. He has worked in his father’s signage shop since young and has recently started to digitise Mr Lee Hon’s calligraphy and has started a crowdfund. He wrote the book Looking at Hong Kong’s Signage to record Hong Kong’s signage history.
Read MoreBenny is a designer living in Tai O. He has created an environmentally conscious fashion brand with a “Tai O/Hong Kong is our home” theme while being cognizant of environmental and social issues around the world.
Read MoreLumliLumlong are local Hong Kong artists. Their shocking artwork brings about reflection. The two artists care deeply about society and hope to convey a realistic side of Hong Kong society through their artwork.
Read MoreDoes innovation stop when the ability to explore political themes ends entirely?
Read MoreLee Faulkner, 50s, is a British-born actuary who moved to Hong Kong in 2011 after having previously lived in several other countries. In 2020, he joined a number of opposition candidates to run against incumbent legislators of several functional constituencies in the 2020 Legislative Council election, which has since been postponed until 2021.
Read MoreTo Hongkongers, shopping at wet markets, crossing the Victoria Harbor by ferry, or gobbling up at a cha chaan teng (Hong Kong-style café) are just day-to-day activities that hardly deserve any attention. But to Nicolas Petit, who runs a street photography project called The Hongkongers (IG: @thehongkongers), these mundanities are exactly what make up a unique Hong Kong.
Read MoreK Kwong, renowned chemistry tutor and lecturer, retired into a quiet life until the anti-extradition movement when he went public and used his scientific knowledge to counter the fallacies propagated through the community. The future of humanity is worrisome—in this chaotic era, are science and knowledge a blessing or curse?
Read MoreWoo Sze Yan is a secondary school disciplinary teacher. She is not the typical disciplinary teacher with a serious face, but rather exerts a kind and gentle vibe and shows firmness when protecting her students against the white terror in the society.
Read MoreVivian and her partners founded Dare Media in August 2019. Her team’s project ‘Yell Card’ produces trading cards of protest-related artwork drawn by different designers, promoting the commercialization of political art and graphic designs. Aiming to support designers financially as well as produce trading cards for physical records of the protest movement, the new editions of Yell Card are...
Read MoreMathew has been a meditation practitioner for over 5 years, with accreditation from courses on Mindfulness at several universities and meditation centres. In 2019, he chose Hong Kong as the starting point and established Mr. Stillness, an online platform providing Cantonese meditation training.
Read MoreCalif Chong is a filmmaker currently based in the UK. She worked as a scriptwriter at TVB and a documentarian for RTHK. A few years ago, she began her studies in Europe and started her career in the film industry, with the aim of finding a new way to tell the story of Hong Kong.
Read MoreChen Kau has been a letter writer for nearly 40 years. Originally from Vietnam, where he worked as an accountant for a film production company, he first came to Hong Kong in 1972 and took a job as a bartender. Given his education and proficiency in English, a customer suggested he become a letter writer.
Read MoreOrganic Greenfield, an extension of ‘Kong Yeah‘, is an organisation that advocates ‘Community Supported Agriculture’. Ho Ying and Nicole run the organisation and in 2017 they introduced the Organic Greenfield CSA Project. They have been devoted to building long-term cooperative ties with local farmers and producers, as well as playing a bridging role between them and the citizens.....
Read MoreYBC is just an ordinary Hongkonger who actively supports a group of ‘youngsters’ since the start of the protests, by listening to and walking along with them.
Read MoreJason Ho is a locally educated queer studies researcher. From a young man that happened to enter the University of Hong Kong to leaving in 2018 after teaching there for many years, he always thought that academia was his calling. Two years ago, he resolutely left for an administrative position at Hong Kong Baptist University which has led him to rethink life.
Read MoreTyping, a post 90s modern calligraphy artist, is using his unique brushwork to keep a record of Hongkongers' strong will and determination to fight against totalitarianism.
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