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1 week ago | 
straitstimes.com | Magdalene Fung |Walter Sim |Joyce Lim |Bhagyashree Garekar
Follow our live coverage. HONG KONG/TOKYO/SHENZHEN/NEW YORK – Back home in Singapore, Mr Julian Chang, 24, used to pay little attention to politics, calling himself “apolitical”. But since coming to Tokyo as an exchange student a month ago, he has been gripped by election fever, even though he has had to watch election rallies online instead of attending in person.
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Jan 31, 2025 | 
straitstimes.com | Magdalene Fung |Joyce Lim
HONG KONG/SHENZHEN – At the Shenzhen Civic Centre, dazzling patterns formed on towering skyscrapers, lit by more than a million LED light panels that bathed the city’s skyline in brilliant colours. “That’s just like Hong Kong,” a woman exclaimed in Cantonese as the area lit up in unison at 8pm on a recent Friday evening, flashing in sync to upbeat music.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
straitstimes.com | Magdalene Fung
Overall, home prices in Hong Kong have dropped by more than 25 per cent since late 2021, falling to their lowest level in eight years in September. ST PHOTO: MAGDALENE FUNG Updated Dec 08, 2024, 05:30 PM Published Dec 08, 2024, 05:30 PM HONG KONG – It took a nudge from Beijing to prod Hong Kong’s tycoons to action.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
thestar.com.my | Magdalene Fung
HONG KONG: Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee has fired his tourism and transport ministers in an unexpected move, replacing them with veteran officials he called proactive leaders with a “reform mindset”. Tourism minister Kevin Yeung, 61, and transport minister Lam Sai Hung, 63, have been replaced by housing director Rosanna Law, 56, and the transport bureau’s permanent secretary, Mable Chan, 58, respectively.
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
straitstimes.com | Magdalene Fung
In one of the top 10 wealthiest cities in the world, more than 215,000 people live in homes of appalling conditions. ST PHOTOS: MAGDALENE FUNG Updated Nov 11, 2024, 05:01 AM Published Nov 11, 2024, 05:00 AM HONG KONG – When I first moved to Hong Kong from Singapore over a decade ago, I lived in a 9 sq m subdivided flat in the heart of the commercial district of Wan Chai.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
thestar.com.my | Magdalene Fung
HONG KONG (The Straits Times/ANN): Hong Kong pop star Andy Lau has found himself embroiled in a political controversy after he performed his classic song, Zhong Guo Ren, or “Chinese people”, at his first concert in Taiwan in over a decade.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
straitstimes.com | Joyce Lim |Magdalene Fung
The University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital received more than 40,000 outpatient visits from Hong Kong residents in the first quarter of 2024. ST PHOTO: JOYCE ZK LIM Updated Nov 02, 2024, 02:30 PM Published Nov 02, 2024, 02:30 PM SHENZHEN / HONG KONG – The southern Chinese city of Shenzhen has fast become to Hong Kong residents what Johor Bahru is to many Singaporeans: a haven for wallet-friendly shopping, dining and recreation.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
straitstimes.com | Magdalene Fung
HONG KONG – A little island at Hong Kong’s southernmost point draws hundreds of visitors every weekend, despite being so remote that it has fewer than 10 residents and potable water is delivered there by boat. Po Toi, sometimes described as Hong Kong’s South Pole, is as inhospitable as islands come: It doesn’t have its own freshwater or power supply, and has just one main public toilet and one proper restaurant. Transport from the city to the island isn’t even available every day.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
straitstimes.com | Magdalene Fung
Retail sales in Hong Kong dropped by a worse-than-expected 10.1 per cent in August from a year ago, the sixth straight month of decline. ST PHOTO: MAGDALENE FUNG Updated Oct 16, 2024, 09:40 PM Published Oct 16, 2024, 09:40 PM HONG KONG – If there was one thing Chief Executive John Lee made abundantly clear in his annual policy address on Oct 16, it was the urgency of finding big new ways to inject fresh impetus into Hong Kong’s struggling economy.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
straitstimes.com | Magdalene Fung
A report revealed that 20.2 per cent of the city’s population – or 1.4 million – are now considered poor. PHOTO: BLOOMBERG Updated Oct 09, 2024, 05:45 PM Published Oct 09, 2024, 05:45 PM HONG KONG – When Hong Konger Mandy found herself unexpectedly pregnant and facing unemployment with little savings in late 2023, she did not fully anticipate how hard life was about to get.
