Inside the MTR signalling upgrade that shaved 40 seconds off the Tsuen Wan line
Moving-block signalling is finally live on the city's busiest corridor. We rode the first trains.
Dai pai dong after midnight: the cooks keeping wok hei alive in Central
Rents rose, licences shrank, but a handful of open-air kitchens still fire up at 1 a.m.
Kowloon Walled City Park at thirty: memory, density and what we lost
Three decades after demolition, the park is a quiet archive of a vanished vertical village.
Cantopop is having a synth moment, and Gen Z is driving it
Young producers are mining 1980s TVB soundtracks for a new wave of bilingual pop.
The Shenzhen hardware weekenders: HK founders who commute to build
A two-hour border hop turns a Causeway Bay flat into a hardware startup. We followed three teams.
The Star Ferry is not dead — it's being re-engineered
Battery-electric conversions aim to keep the 120-year-old crossing running past 2030.
The rooftop farms turning Kwun Tong's old factories green
Industrial-building owners are leasing rooftops to urban growers. The economics finally work.
The milk tea index 2026: what a cup of silk-stocking tea now costs
We priced 60 cha chaan teng across 18 districts. The spread tells a story about rent.
Why the big data centres are quietly moving to the New Territories
Power, cooling water and cross-border fibre are reshaping where Asia's cloud lives.
Hong Kong's neon signs get a second life in the archive
As tungsten tubes come down, conservators are racing to document a disappearing craft.
The minibus app wars: who controls the city's 16-seat network
Green minibuses were the last un-digitised corner of HK transit. Not anymore.