Lead cast: Lee Je-hoon, Lee Dong-hwi, Choi Woo-sung, Yoon Hyun-soo, Seo Eun-sooLatest Nielsen rating: 7.8 per centLee Je-hoon’s return to screens sees him reincarnate one of South Korea’s most beloved TV characters.Created by Park Jae-beom (Vincenzo, The Fiery Priest) and...
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Italian state broadcaster Rai has been accused of censorship after cancelling the appearance of a writer who was set to criticise Prime...
On April 30 at The Wanch, Skids will play their first Hong Kong gig as part of their 45th anniversary greatest hits tour.Formed in 1977, Skids made it big in Britain with breakout anthems “Into the Valley”, “Working for the...
In a wistful take on the first of Schumann’s Five Pieces in Folk Style, for example, Fung was on point where lightness was concerned and remained faithful to the composer’s intention of representing Vanitas vanitatum, loosely translated as the fleetingness...
4/5 starsAs part of Hollywood’s increasingly desperate trawl through the archives for viable IP, the powers that be have settled on The Fall Guy.The US TV series, starring Lee Majors as a stuntman turned bounty hunter, ran for five seasons...
Founded in 2004, CAEG has two subsidiaries, China Performing Arts Agency (CPAA) and China International Exhibition Agency (CIEA). In 2021, the group became part of the Bauhinia Culture Group, a state-owned cultural enterprise that was founded in Hong Kong that...
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Taylor Swift’s latest album sold 1.6mn US units in a single day, including 600,000 vinyl copies, putting The Tortured Poets Department on...
This European tour, the longest in the orchestra’s history, was now being billed as part of its 50th anniversary celebrations.The Hong Kong Philharmonic performed in Singapore to warm up for the European tour. Photo: Aloysius LimThe plan was to begin...
Most of the time, understanding dish names requires some level of fluency in Chinese, though not always. But what happens when names get lost in translation on their way to English?Chinese restaurant Chow in Glasgow, Scotland, has a colloquial phrase...
Perhaps because of his early interactions with Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan always wanted to make it big in the United States. One of the reasons that Chan signed with Golden Harvest in the late 1970s was that the studio said...
