Hong Kong Heritage

David Bellis of the Hong Kong history website Gwulo.com talks about his latest book of Hong Kong photos and the stories behind them: Hong Kong Photos and the Tales the Tell Volume 1. But Nigel Sharman of the Hong Kong Welsh Male Voice Choir introduc...

Photographer Keith MacGregor talks to me about his solo exhibition at Usagi gallery of nostalgic street photos from the 1970s and 80s and neon. And then, we celebrate DJ Steve James' radio personality award from the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union. 

On this weekend's Hong Kong Heritage, Katie Ho talks to me about the family business - Olympia Graeco Egyptian Coffee - a Hong Kong institution since 1927, and the original roasters of the Peninsula. It was founded by an Egyptian from Greece, who I...

Dr Judith Mackay came to Hong Kong in 1967 to join her husband, also a doctor. In the early 1980s, she took on the tobacco industry, and hasn’t stopped. Over the past 30 years she has travelled widely in Asia helping governments implement tobacco cont...

In 1969, Sindhi businesswoman Mohini Gidumal opened a 200 sq ft shop with a friend at Ocean Terminal, called Town House, which evolved into a much larger luxury tableware company. Born in 1937, Mrs Gidumal grew up in the Philippines.

Zoher Abdoolcarim, former Asia Editor, TIME International, talks about his family, whose roots go back in Hong Kong to 1885, growing up in North Point, St Joseph's College, meeting Mahathir and Modi, and maintaining real journalism.

Annemarie joins passionate cricket fan and Parsee Mani Vachha at Kowloon Cricket Club. Born in Karachi in 1930, Mani came to Hong Kong in the 1960s amid water shortages and bombs left on streets. She talks about Parsee embroidery, customs and food, pl...

On this weekend’s Hong Kong Heritage…Saadia Usmani has lived in Hong Kong for the past two years and is a real foodie at heart. Annemarie joins her at Wan Chai mosque in Oi Kwan Road to go to the Islamic Centre Canteen for dim sum, where they chat with...

This weekend on Hong Kong Heritage, Annemarie is joined by Fermi Wong, the founder of NGO Unison, an ardent fighter against racism and discrimination and an outspoken supporter of South Asian communities in Hong Kong. Fermi came to Hong Kong at the age...

On this weekend's Hong Kong Heritage, Lai Afong was the most important 19th Century Chinese photographer. From 1860 to 1890 he ran a studio in Hong Kong, which was then taken over by his son. Afong's beautiful landscapes and studio portaits taken i...

On this week’s Hong Kong Heritage, Part 3 of a special series highlighting the early decades of broadcasting in Hong Kong to mark the 90th anniversary of RTHK. Annemarie Evans reports on the beginning of commercial cable radio station Rediffusion in 19...