Happy Birthday to us!
Twenty-nine years ago on the 1st September 1994, bc magazine debuted on the streets of Hong Kong.
A lot of people – staff, friends, advertisers and readers have been involved over the years, thank you for your continued support and strength especially now. Stay safe.
Carpe Diem!
Hong Kong will ban imports of aquatic products from 10 areas of Japan from Thursday 24 August, after Tokyo said it would start releasing wastewater from the tsunami-stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant.
Environment Minister Tse Chin-wan said the administration is taking a relatively conservative approach with the imports ban, limiting it to what he called high-risk coastal prefectures, as well as neighbouring areas.
The 10 prefectures involved are Fukushima, Tokyo, Chiba, Tochigi, Ibaraki, Gunma, Miyagi, Niigata, Nagano and Saitama.
The ban covers all live, chilled, frozen and dried sea products, sea salt and seaweed.
Morrissey: 40 Years of Morrissey in Hong Kong
Date: 8pm, 16 November, 2023
Venue: AsiaWorld Expo, Hall 2
Tickets: $1,199, $799
Keshi – Epilogue Tour
Date: 8pm, 20-21 November, 2023
Venue: AsiaWorld Expo, Hall 5
Tickets: $1,899, $1,499, $899, $599 from Cityline
This week’s RTHK Hong Kong Stories takes a look at the legendary Sammy’s Kitchen and its founder Sammy Yip.
Yip opened a steakhouse in Sai Ying Pun in 1969, serving up hotel-quality food at affordable prices – so as to allow the general public to experience the indulgence of a steak dinner.
To cater to the tastes of local Chinese diners, he later developed Hong Kong-style Western dishes, also known as “Soy Sauce Western Cuisine”.
Sammy’s icon neon sign was saved when the restaurant relocated and is now on display at the M+ museum.
Sammy’s Kitchen
204～206 Queen’s Road West,
Sai Ying Pun
Tel: 2548 8400
Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Half Marathon 2023
Date: 19 November, 2023
Venue: Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge
Tickets: Registration $550
Radio Free Asia are reporting that Hong Kong government broadcaster RTHK has announced it will axe the LGBTQ+ radio show 自己人 We Are Family after 17 years on air, according to the show’s anchor and producers.
“I received personal notice at the beginning of July from the director of Radio Television Hong Kong’s Chinese channel that ‘We Are Family,’ which started up in 2006, is being officially terminated in August,” the show’s anchor Brian Leung said in a July 22 post on his Facebook page.
“In Hong Kong, we are mentally prepared, as a lot of things seem to be a matter of sooner or later,” Leung wrote in an apparent reference to an ongoing crackdown on liberal media and political opposition.
“There’s little we can do. What can be done has been done.”
Activists told Radio Free Asia that the move comes as Beijing continues to tighten its grip on public speech in Hong Kong, in a bid to make the city more patriotically Chinese.
Leung thanked his listeners and said it was “dark times” for equal rights, rather than the end of the road.
The show’s producers said on its official Facebook page that it had started in 2006 on the back of a wave of regional interest in LGBTQ+ culture sparked by Taiwanese director Ang Lee’s film “Brokeback Mountain.”
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Leo Ku – I Really Love to Sing
Date: 8:15pm, 8 August, 2023
Venue: HKCEC, Hall 5B
Tickets: $980, $680, $480 from HKTicketing
