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Apple Store Becomes Backdrop for Honor’s Brazen Hong Kong Ad Stunt
Photos have been making the rounds on Chinese social media today showing an Honor-branded advertising truck parked directly in front of Apple Canton Road store in Hong Kong, promoting the company’s new Honor 600 series smartphone. The truck’s ad features the slogan “It’s our HONOR” alongside the phrase “orange to orange,” which appears to be a play on the English idiom “apples to apples” – referring to a like-for-like comparison. The slogan is paired with an image of the Honor phone, in a finish that bears more than a passing resemblance to the iPhone 17 Pro’s Cosmic Orange. It’s a brazen stunt for a brand that spun off from Huawei in 2020 before being sold off to another entity to bypass U.S. sanctions. Using Apple’s retail store as a backdrop to pitch your rival device with a similar color is one thing, but when the design is arguably a shameless copy, you’re definitely out of ideas. Apple is unlikely to make a big stink about such guerrilla marketing, as it would only amplify it. And …
Navy Reservist Arrested, Accused of Fleeing to Hong Kong After Wife’s Body Found in Virginia Freezer
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A man accused of fleeing to Hong Kong after his wife’s body was found in a freezer in their Virginia apartment has been apprehended, authorities said. David Varela, a 38-year-old Navy Reservist, was wanted on a first-degree murder charge in the death of Lina M. Guerra, 39, who was found dead at their Norfolk apartment in February, FBI Director Kash Patel announced in a social media post. Varela had been on the run for more than two months, “but justice doesn’t forget,” he said. Varela was returned to the United States on Wednesday and remains in California, where he faces federal charges, Norfolk police said Thursday in a news release. A notice filed Wednesday in federal court in San Francisco states that Varela was arrested on an unlawful flight warrant and accused of fleeing to Hong Kong from Virginia to avoid prosecution for first-degree murder and concealing a dead body to prevent detection. On Feb. 5, Norfolk police searched the home of Varela and Guerra, identified in an FBI affidavit as …
52 years of kong bak bao: How Westlake’s third-gen owner is steering a heritage brand into the future
Popular dishes at Westlake include an award-winning Hot and Sour Soup, Butter King Prawn and Roast Chicken. But, it was their braised pork buns that first put Westlake on the map, and the restaurant continues to be synonymous with the dish today: melt-in-the-mouth slabs of pork belly in a dark, savoury-sweet sauce, sandwiched into fluffy, steamed Chinese buns. “When people think about braised pork buns, they think of us. It’s something that has carried on over the years,” Matthew said. The recipe, developed by his grandfather and uncle, originally required chefs to get up at 4am to braise the pork so that it would be ready for lunch hour. “Customers say our braised pork is fatty without being cloying. You don’t feel the oiliness when you eat it. The texture is extremely important,” Robert said. The secret to the perfect texture is in the thickness of the cut, Matthew divulged. Meat is sourced from Germany and the Netherlands. The dish also uses a premium-grade soya sauce specially calibrated for the restaurant by their longtime local …
Hong Kong Marquee Art Sales Total $164.9 M., up 18% from 2025 Auctions
For the second consecutive year, Christie’s, Phillips, and Sotheby’s aligned their marquee spring auctions in Asia with the week of Art Basel Hong Kong. The strategy clearly worked, with the three houses generating a combined $164.9 million across their modern and contemporary art evening sales. That result marked a significant rebound from last autumn’s $136.3 million — the lowest total in eight years — and also surpassed last spring’s comparable total of $139.9 million. While gallerists told ARTnews that sales at Art Basel had been measured, the auction market showed robust demand for trophy works from collectors across Asia. Related Articles Leading the season was Christie’s evening sale on March 27, which realized HK$655.7 million ($83.8 million). Coinciding with the auction house’s 40th anniversary in Asia, Christie’s assembled a tightly curated selection, focusing on works by modern masters appearing on the market for the first time. (All prices are inclusive of fees unless otherwise indicated.) The top lot was Abstraktes Bild by Gerhard Richter, offered with a third-party guarantee and selling for HK$92.1 million ($11.77 …
Hong Kong Signs Agreement to Keep Hosting Art Basel Fair For 5 Years
Hong Kong may be halfway through Mega 8, the city’s new name for its months-long lineup of major arts, culture, and sporting events, but the undoubted highlight is this week’s Art Basel Hong Kong. The fair has become a must-attend for locals and a major draw for international visitors, with attendance reaching 80,400 in 2024 and 86,500 last year. As such, it is no surprise that the city has signed a new agreement with Art Basel to ensure it remains the region’s sole host for another five years. Rosanna Law, the special administrative region’s culture secretary, announced the deal on Wednesday, which calls for Art Basel to expand the fair in both scale and impact. Related Articles “We will actively complement the Art Basel fair with top-tier cultural performances and Hong Kong’s mega events, so that attending collectors and art appreciators can experience our city’s unique cultural atmosphere and its charms,” she said, according to Radio Television Hong Kong. While Law confirmed that the fair will continue to be held at the Hong Kong Convention …
Art Basel Hong Kong 2026: Best Booths
Sore feet, lean pockets, sustainability woes—what’s a 21st-century art fair really good for, some might wonder? Surpassing the skepticism, this edition of Art Basel Hong Kong offered a compelling glimpse at the talent flourishing across Asia. Sure, Pace Gallery’s Modigliani made the early headlines—but by our reckoning, the fair belonged to Asia’s modern masters and its next generation of stars, some who sorely deserve their spotlight. Bright spots abounded in the curated sectors, with especially strong showings from Discoveries and Insights, respectively dedicated to emerging artists and thematic presentations. With a simple sheet and smart lighting, Ho Chi Minh’s Vin Gallery staged a shadow-puppet display of ceramic skeletons by Japanese sculptor Ako Goto. Elsewhere, local outfit Lucie Chang Fine Arts made a compelling case for the canonization of the late Chinese painter Zhu Xinjian, whose traditional ink drawings shock with atypically salacious subject matter. gdm, the Hong Kong-based gallery founded by Fred Scholle in 1974, offered one of the best pairings of established and ascendant artists: Kongkee’s seated figure in a lightbox, revealing a second face when viewed from the side, alongside a suite of abstract paintings by Tang Chang, …
Pace Is Selling a $13.3 M. Modigliani Painting at Art Basel Hong Kong
Just weeks after announcing a symposium for Institut Restellini’s decades-in-the-making Amedeo Modigliani catalogue raisonné, Pace is offering a painting by the artist at Art Basel Hong Kong that was only recently authenticated. The work has a long legal backstory. Titled Jeune femme brune (1917–18), the work is the highest priced piece on offer at the Hong Kong fair, according to ARTnews’s Tessa Solomon, who is on the ground reporting from Art Basel. Pace CEO Marc Glimcher told Solomon that the work is being offered for €11.5 million—about $13.3 million—with several parties bidding on the work. (Glimcher also said that the gallery will be bringing a Modligliani work listed in the new catalogue to each fair this year, in celebration of its publication.) Related Articles That’s a far cry from the painting’s status nearly 30 years ago, when it was pulled from a sale at Phillips in 1997 due to authentication concerns. Marc Restellini, art historian and founder of Institut Restellini, told the auction house in the lead-up to the sale that he was not planning …
Hong Kong Action Film Stars Joe Taslim
Calling it now fight fans, we may have an all-time action classic on our hands. Lionsgate released the first official trailer for its upcoming Hong Kong action film The Furious, and the words brutal and intense will be seared on to your brain after watching it. Kenji Tanigaki‘s film is an amalgam of the very best of Asian action cinema and features Chinese actor Xie Miao (aka Mo Tse, who starred with Jet Li in The New Legend of Shaolin and My Father Is a Hero) and Indonesian star Joe Taslim (yes, the guy from The Raid films and also Sub-Zero in the Mortal Kombat movies). The cast also includes Indonesian action favorite Yayan Ruhian (another breakout star from Gareth Evans’ Raid films) and Thai actress Yanin Vismitananda (Europe Raiders, Triple Threat). Though The Furious is only Japan-born Tanigaki’s third outing as a director, the filmmaker is something of a legend in Hong Kong cinema having been the stunt co-ordinator or fight choreographer for films such as Flash Point, Hidden Man, Raging Fire and Twilight …
At 2026 Hong Kong Cultural Summit, Museum Leaders Pitch New Models for Institutions
“We are witnessing growing geopolitical complexity around the world. In times like these, culture matters more than ever. Culture transcends borders,” said Hong Kong’s Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism, Rosanna Law, at the opening ceremony of this year’s Hong Kong International Cultural Summit on Monday. The remark offered one of the summit’s few, curated nods to the destabilizing effects of the spiraling U.S.–Israel–Iran war on global transport and energy flows. But the implication landed cleanly: the world is reorganizing—and with it, the distribution of cultural influence. Panels and policy discussions painted a picture of a city weighing its next steps. Over decades, Hong Kong has established its role as a gateway between China and the West; now, it’s engineering a self-sufficient arts and cultural engine that serves first its residents and then its near and dear in the region. Related Articles The 2026 summit, titled A New Era: Reimagining Community Through the Arts, unfolded across the M+ museum and the Hong Kong Museum of Art. In his remarks, WKCDA Board chairman Bernard Chan said the event arrives “at a moment when the city is firmly reestablishing itself as an international cultural center,” while “ingraining” arts and culture into daily Hong Kong life. To those ends, …