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13 April 2012
The Hong Kong tea restaurants reinvigorating ancient traditions, we talk to the people behind 42Raw restaurant and Berlin has our barista of the week.
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13 April 2012
The Hong Kong tea restaurants reinvigorating ancient traditions, we talk to the people behind 42Raw restaurant and Berlin has our barista of the week.
15 January 2022
This week we speak with Kurt Lin from new business and finance title ‘1611’, and look at ‘Being Hong Kong’, a quarterly that focuses exclusively on the history, culture and daily life of the city.
20 August 2022
We speak with Mark Hunter, known as The Cobrasnake, who was an influential party photographer in the 2000s. Plus Naomi Xu Elegant gives us an overview of the print media scene in Hong Kong. And former BBC New York corres…
24 March 2019
In the second of two programmes focused on the world of art, we look ahead to Art Basel in Hong Kong. We’ll hear how UBS plans to mark its ongoing support for the event with a display in the UBS Lounge of works from its…
29 November 2016
Hong Kong started out as a city that made things and later became a trading hub for buying and selling. Now it has its sights set on becoming a regional centre of creativity, innovation and design. In this episode we take…
28 March 2013
Hong Kong: why the city is becoming a creative hub and how to live among the world’s largest collection of skyscrapers.
28 April 2020
How are designers in the city responding to Covid-19? We learn what interior designer Joyce Wang has been up to under lockdown. We meet graphic designer and advertising veteran Stanley Wong to learn about the campaigns that…
27 July 2019
As the demonstrations in Hong Kong continue, we look at the stand-off between Beijing and the people of Hong Kong, and ask if Hong Kong’s government will ever have any real say in this. We hear from Badiucao, Fernando…
12 August 2019
Another weekend of protests grips Hong Kong, the US threatens to withdraw troops from Germany and can the rise of virtual retail replicate the real thing?
30 October 2019
Unrest is Hong Kong is beginning to bite the city-state’s economy. Plus: how Japan is working to guarantee a positive legacy from the 2020 Olympic Games and a new plan to boost public transport to San Francisco Airport.
8 July 2017
Twenty years after the “one party, two systems” treaty guaranteed Hong Kongers’ democratic rights, we ask if China has kept its promises and whether the UK should have been a better advocate for its former colony. We get…
24 September 2022
Twenty-five years ago, Hong Kong was handed back to China under a novel arrangement called “one country, two systems”. Following a tumultuous decade of unrest and government restrictions, what kind of future awaits Hong…
21 October 2019
A new documentary from The Bulletin with UBS brings together three Nobel laureates working with UBS to offer solutions to the challenges of a fast-changing world. Bengt Holmström, Robert Merton and Michael Spence discuss…
26 January 2017
Almost a month after the new South Island Line was inaugurated, we examine the impact that it had in Hong Kong. Meanwhile, we find out how a plan to build down instead of up could create a new open-air amphitheatre in…
23 September 2019
Can Hong Kong’s chief executive Carrie Lam finally put an end to months of protest with her “open dialogue” initiative? Plus: are people finally paying attention to the climate crisis and who’s eyeing up Greece’s hotels?
27 March 2023
Global lead partner UBS has been celebrating the return of the fair with a programme to drive engagement and increase access to art in the local community. We learn more about how UBS drives its programmes of public enga…
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