Edits / Society
Sheung Wan
With a mix of traditional flats and small-scale retailers, Sheung Wan also has a real sense of community.
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Edits / Travel
Monocle travel guide
In a city known for its preference to raze rather than save, finding an old building among Hong Kong’s gleaming skyscrapers is a challenge. Marvel then at the Tai O Heritage Hotel: housed in a 110-year-old police station…
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Monday 12 November
New challenges for China’s new leader
You can’t take enough precautionary security measures when the current and future leaders of the world’s most populous country gather to swap government posts and swear-in the generation of people who will rule for the next…
Business / Environment
Monocolumn
Tuesday 11 December
China is fuming
China’s rapid economic rise has transformed the country, turning it into an economic powerhouse and pulling hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. But that progress has come at a price that China’s leaders are still…
Culture / Media
Monocolumn
Tuesday 23 April
Play time
The games available on smartphones and tablets can drive a daily commuter in Hong Kong to distraction.
Affairs / Architecture
Monocolumn
Tuesday 14 August
Use the city’s space wisely
It’s an architectural feat to squeeze in seven million people on just over 1,000 sq km. Hong Kong has managed to do just that and the frenzy to keep building, adding, extending, excavating and reclaiming goes on. Hong Kong…
Business / Books
Monocolumn
Friday 23 July
Book fair stories
If you are strolling around Hong Kong’s harbour-front in Wanchai, watch out for your toes.
Business / Manufacturing
Toy story
This issue our regular Fairplay series on trade fairs from around the world makes a return. Here we visit the Toys & Games Fair in Hong Kong, the second largest exhibition of its kind in the world, where serious-minded…
Culture / Society
Monocolumn
Monday 11 February
It's quiet. Too quiet...
When Chinese New year starts, Hong Kong stops – and our bureau chief, against her better judgement, finds herself missing the hustle and bustle.
Culture / Society
Monocolumn
Friday 3 September
Hong Kong’s cultural rebirth
Hong-kongers and visitors alike often say that Hong Kong is culturally vacuous or that the city doesn’t have any culture full stop.
Affairs / Urbanism
Build me Hong Kong
It’s done a good job getting everyday essentials into our homes, hands and driveways but it would like to do so much more. Faced with stiff competition from China, South Korea sees a future for itself as a centre for hi…
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Monday 2 July
China and Hong Kong’s uneasy relationship
Two days ago Hong Kongers took to the streets in the tens of thousands to mark the 15th anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong to China.
Business / Society
Monocolumn
Friday 17 February
Trade shows are a one-stop guilty pleasure
Ah, the trade show. That ever-present feature on the global calendar of industry events. The concentration of all forces singularly focused on one thing: selling stuff.
Affairs / Transport
Monocolumn
Friday 25 November
Hong Kong taxis rank highly
With 18,000 taxis on Hong Kong’s roads, this is a city in which you’ll never have to wait more than a few minutes to find one.
Culture / Arts
Founding father
In under four years the Hong Kong International Art Fair has become a key date on dealers’ and buyers’ calendars. Founding director Magnus Renfrew tells us about his work life, and how billionaires and airplanes helped him…
Design / Urbanism
Monocolumn
Friday 29 March
Finding your level
The walkways of Hong Kong wind up, down, through malls, skyscrapers and beyond. But take some time to walk the ground-level streets too, if you can find one.
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Monday 8 April
Shredding the red tape
Our recently settled Hong Kong bureau chief is amazed to discover that tasks such as setting up utilities and buying a new phone can be simple, stress-free experiences.
Culture / Urbanism
Monocolumn
Friday 10 May
All mixed up
While the comforts of home are reassuring, the wealth of different cultures in Hong Kong is something expats should celebrate.
Edits / Urbanism
Monocolumn
Thursday 11 October
The park that’s pretty but pointless
All around the Monocle bureau in Hong Kong there’s drilling and jackhammering going on.