Hong Kong Heritage

Well, Typhoon Meranti passed us by but some of Hong Kong's other typhoons have been devastating. This week, Annemarie heads to the Observatory in Tsim Sha Tsui, to talk with the Hong Kong Observatory director Shun Chi-Ming about typhoons.

On this week's programme Carmen Yau, a master's student of social work at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, talks about her maternal grandfather, her gung gung, who was a cloth businessman who came from near Shanghai. He and his wife had eleven child...

Following the collapse of a wall at the former Central Police Station – a grade 1 monument status set of buildings – conservation activist Katty Law asks what went wrong. She tells Annemarie about the history of the compound and how she’d like to see...

80 years ago British Airways carried out its first flight to Hong Kong. It involved a number of planes and eight days of travel across the world. In 1936, it was known as Imperial Airways and the few people who could fly paid for very expensive ticket...