Hong Kong Heritage

Zoher Abdoolcarim, former Asia Editor, TIME International, talks about his family, whose roots go back in Hong Kong to 1885, growing up in North Point, St Joseph's College, meeting Mahathir and Modi, and maintaining real journalism.

Annemarie joins passionate cricket fan and Parsee Mani Vachha at Kowloon Cricket Club. Born in Karachi in 1930, Mani came to Hong Kong in the 1960s amid water shortages and bombs left on streets. She talks about Parsee embroidery, customs and food, pl...

On this weekend’s Hong Kong Heritage…Saadia Usmani has lived in Hong Kong for the past two years and is a real foodie at heart. Annemarie joins her at Wan Chai mosque in Oi Kwan Road to go to the Islamic Centre Canteen for dim sum, where they chat with...

This weekend on Hong Kong Heritage, Annemarie is joined by Fermi Wong, the founder of NGO Unison, an ardent fighter against racism and discrimination and an outspoken supporter of South Asian communities in Hong Kong. Fermi came to Hong Kong at the age...

On this weekend's Hong Kong Heritage, Lai Afong was the most important 19th Century Chinese photographer. From 1860 to 1890 he ran a studio in Hong Kong, which was then taken over by his son. Afong's beautiful landscapes and studio portaits taken i...

On this week’s Hong Kong Heritage, Part 3 of a special series highlighting the early decades of broadcasting in Hong Kong to mark the 90th anniversary of RTHK. Annemarie Evans reports on the beginning of commercial cable radio station Rediffusion in 19...

 In part two of a special series on Hong Kong Heritage throughout June marking the 90th anniversary of RTHK, we hear about longtime presenter Aileen Woods, who started out with her twin sister as a vaudeville singing act and first came to Hong Kong in ...

This weekend marks the start of a special series on Hong Kong Heritage throughout June, looking at the early years of broadcasting in Hong Kong to mark the 90th anniversary of RTHK, which started out as the call sign GOW in 1928. In this week's prog...