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From online to onstage: Hong Kong YouTubers make a splash through Trial & Error

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube The Hong Kong YouTube channel Trial & Error has become all the rage in the Cantonese-speaking world with its offering of comedy skits, parodies, music videos and game shows. Founded by Hong Kong actor Neo Yau Hawk-sau, along with Hui Yin and So Chi-ho, the channel is famous for delivering shows using clever wordplay with Cantonese…

How to use Hong Kong’s ‘Leave Home Safe’ app to enter mainland China and Macau quarantine free

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube After nearly two years of heavy restrictions, Hong Kong is set to reopen its border with mainland China and allow quarantine-free travel between the city and Guangdong and Macau. Visitors will need to register for a health code on Hong Kong’s “Leave Home Safe” app. Here’s everything you need to know. Related story: 187,000 Hongkongers sign…

Hong Kong’s Cross Harbour swim makes triumphant return amid Covid-19 restrictions

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Hong Kong’s iconic Cross Harbour swim has returned, after a two-year hiatus because of the 2019 protests and the pandemic. About 1,200 entrants set off from the city’s Wan Chai district on Sunday December 12, 2021, swimming 1km (0.6 miles) across to Tsim Sha Tsui. The pandemic meant entries for this year’s swim were slashed by…

'Freedom swimmers' : The people who risked it all to flee to Hong Kong

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube From 1950 to 1997 it’s estimated that as many as 2 million people fled from the Chinese mainland to Hong Kong. Many in search of better economic prospects and some to escape Chinese communist rule. The world called them “freedom swimmers”. The South China Morning Post met an old freedom swimmer and a former member of…

Hong Kong’s comeback queen? City leader Carrie Lam on Talking Post with Yonden Lhatoo

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube After bearing the brunt of public anger and international criticism over the 2019 protests, Chief Executive Carrie Lam now says she is “steeled” to meet any challenges as she spearheads sweeping changes in Hong Kong. In the fifth episode of Talking Post with SCMP chief news editor Yonden Lhatoo, Lam addresses concerns about where she is…

Hong Kong microbiologist blames 'selfish' mask for Covid-19 cross infection at quarantine hotel

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube A leading microbiologist in Hong Kong has labelled a face mask as “selfish” because its design contains a valve that filters air being breathed in, but not out. The city’s health officials have blamed the mask for a cross infection of Covid-19 at a quarantine hotel, after two guests staying on the same floor tested positive…

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