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Is NYC’s Most Iconic Sandwich Dying?

The deli, they say, is dying. They’re not talking about the corner markets or bodegas that appear on nearly every New...

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The Knick’s Orientalism Problem

Before I even watched the first episode of The Knick, I knew it would be a show for me: I am...

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Objectification of Women Rampant in Hong Kong

The video starts with clips taken from music videos and commercials – of skimpily clad women in bikinis and lingerie, rolling...

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Empty Vessels

International waters. The very words have a certain hold on the popular imagination: a lawless zone where man can cast off...

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Discrimination and intolerance makes having a disability hard in Hong Kong

Hong Kong-based writer Paul Letters was looking forward to taking his young son on a visit to the bird enclosure in...

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Graveyard of Marriages

Hong Kong has the dubious honour of having been crowned the divorce capital of Asia, according to Marcus Dearle, a partner...

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Meet the snake-savers: How two men have spent decades rescuing reptiles in Hong Kong

Last summer Carmel Huber, director of Elephant Asia Rescue and Survival foundation, was walking home along a dark, branch-strewn path on...

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Underage drinking fuels worrying trend in Hong Kong, amid lack of regulation

It’s a Friday afternoon and Cathal Kiely is getting ready for a busy weekend at the clutch of watering holes that...

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Poachers vs Lamma islanders in battle for rare incense trees

Shaun Martin was still lying in bed after waking up one spring morning two years ago, when he was startled by...

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