Le Journal

Hong Kong’s labour authorities are investigating an accident at a government site involving a construction worker who lost his footing and fell onto steel rebar, piercing his buttock. Police received a report at around 10.30am on Thursday that a worker at a Tung Chung construction site under the Housing Department had been injured after a misstep. “The victim was passing by the location of the accident and mistakenly stepped onto an empty space, causing him to fall onto steel rebar on the...

Would you be willing to eat a fish you raised? This was the question that faced 25 young Hongkongers one December afternoon on Lamma Island, who had gathered to share a simple meal of steamed fish that they had nurtured over nine months. This “simple” meal defied a citywide norm. Dinner tables in Hong Kong will almost always include at least one classic seafood dish – from typhoon shelter crab to steamed grouper – but most of the time, that seafood did not come from the city’s waters. This is...

Rohingya migrants – including children – held in detention centres across Malaysia are at risk of forced removal, rights advocates warn, as the government carries out a biometric registration scheme to determine who can stay and who will be deported. Tens of thousands of Rohingya, a Muslim minority from Myanmar’s Rakhine State described by the United Nations as among the world’s most persecuted people, have sought sanctuary in Malaysia since the 1990s. As Malaysia does not formally recognise...

In a world where streamers often get a bad rap for force-feeding audiences mainstream fare, this month sees the arrival of something distinctive. On Mubi, fans of Asian experimental cinema are in for a treat. The Asian Avant-Garde collection, now streaming on the platform, is a mix of 10 shorts and features, from Dead Knot (1969), an early black-and-white work co-written by John Woo Yu-sum, to An Asian Ghost Story (2023), a haunting slice of docufiction centres on the Hong Kong wig industry in...