The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department today (May 23) announced that the test results of 113 rice dumpling samples collected under a recently completed seasonal food surveillance … read more
To tie in with the Hong Kong Pop Culture Festival 2025 theme “More Than Joy”, the Hong Kong Film Archive (HKFA) of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD) will stage the exhibition “Legends of HK Film Comedies, 1980s and 1990s” at the Exhibition Hall of the HKFA from May 30 to October 19, showcasing the unique charisma of Hong Kong comedy films through film excerpts, oral history, song classics and posters from comedic films for visitors to savour the joyful moments produced.
Hong Kong comedy films thrived in the 1980s and 1990s, and many of the popular works produced at the time are now regarded as classics. Through different angles in three thematic zones, the exhibition outlines the local comedy film scene in these two decades.
In the exhibition zone “Roomfuls of Laughter”, nearly 100 exhilarating excerpts from classic Hong Kong film comedies will be screened under four themes, namely “Classic Combos”, “The Art of Exaggeration”, “Laughing with the Times” and “The Nonsensical Art of Mo Lei Tau”. Comedies include “Wheels on Meals” (1984), “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad World” (1987), “All for the Winner” (1990), and “Forbidden City Cop” (1996), which are selected to depict and deconstruct the design and tactics of the jokes in comedy films.
The other zone in the exhibition, “Oral History: Our Comedy Hour”, will screen two thematic videos of interviews with filmmakers including Wong Jing, Clifton Ko, Tenky Tin, Alfred Cheung and Mak Kai-kwong, along with actors including Teresa Mo and Sandra Ng. The two videos are titled “The Birth of Comedy” and “Behind the Jokes: The Making of a Comedian”. The former unveils the development and creative process of Hong Kong comedy films from aspects such as creative inspiration, story concept and casting, while the latter explores how actors characterise their roles, interact with other actors and provide reflections on their film careers, illustrating the professionalism of Hong Kong comedy film stars.
Decorated as a karaoke lounge, which was popular in the 1980s and 1990s, the exhibition zone “Happy Karaoke Sing-A-Long” features more than 20 theme songs or interludes in film excerpts, including “Ex-love is Like a Dream” from “92 The Legendary la Rose Noire” (1992), “A Love Affair” from “Let’s Make Laugh” (1983) and “We Meet Again Stranger” from “All’s Well End’s Well” (1992). Visitors can enjoy the songs in the videos and revisit the enduring pop culture comedy moments.
The exhibition features installations for visitors to take pictures for their joyful moments, including a “poster waterfall” comprising numerous posters of classic comedy films, such as “All the Wrong Clues (…For the Right Solution)” (1981), “Aces Go Places” (1982) and “Sixty Million Dollar Man” (1995). There is also a Comedy Wall of Fame displaying actors and filmmakers’ insights into comedy films, as well as a feature wall which integrates multiple classic comedy scenes and iconic landmarks of Hong Kong, such as the Bank of China Tower, the Clock Tower in Tsim Sha Tsui and the Hong Kong Cultural Centre.
Two seminars will be held during the exhibition period. The first seminar will be held at the HKFA Cinema on June 22 (Sunday), featuring director Clifton Ko and actress Teresa Mo, and hosted by veteran film critic Thomas Shin. Details of the second seminar will be announced on the HKFA website (www.filmarchive.gov.hk) later.
Admission is free. For details of the exhibition, please visit www.filmarchive.gov.hk/en/web/hkfa/2025/comedy-e/pe-event-2025-comedy-e.html or call 2739 2139. Fortune Star Media Limited is the partner organisation for the exhibition.
This year, the LCSD presents the third Hong Kong Pop Culture Festival, themed “More Than Joy”. For more information, please visit www.pcf.gov.hk.
The Music Office of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department, in association with the Education University of Hong Kong, will rerun the music training programme Innovative Music Making: MO x e-Orch from October to July next year. The training programme aims to promote the integration of music and technology on school campuses and targets Primary Four to Primary Six students and Secondary One to Secondary Three students. Interested primary and secondary schools are invited to join the programme.
Two courses are available in this year’s music training programme, namely the “e-Orch Music Making” and “e-Orch Training and Co-creative”. The “e-Orch Music Making” course welcomes students without any musical background, while the “e-Orch Training and Co-creative” course is targeted at students with required musical qualifications or experience.
Participants from each school will form a digital music orchestra, learn musical knowledge, and collaborate in music creation with the use of tablets. Upon completion of the training, each e-Orch will perform its original work on stage at a public concert to showcase their achievements. In addition, participants of the “e-Orch Training and Co-creative” course will also perform with instrumental ensembles from the Music Office or their own schools in the concert. Various awards and certificates of attendance will be presented to participating students in the concert as encouragement.
Interested schools can download application forms from the Music Office’s website (www.lcsd.gov.hk/en/mo/activities/schoolprogrammes/arttech/art/25programme.html). Completed forms must be returned to the Music Office on or before June 13 by e-mail (moarttech@lcsd.gov.hk) or by fax (3104 1352). The Music Office will acknowledge schools’ applications by e-mail. For enquiries, please call 2158 6467 or 3842 7776. read more
Hong Kong Customs yesterday (May 22) detected a suspected money laundering case involving about $61 million in crime proceeds subsequent to a follow-up investigation of a dangerous drug case identified last year. Two local women and one local man suspected to be connected with the case were arrested.
In October last year, Customs detected a dangerous drug case involving about $1.9 million worth of drugs and arrested two local persons suspected to be connected with the case. A subsequent financial investigation and fund-flow analysis revealed that there were numerous suspicious transactions, which were suspected to be crime proceeds, in the personal bank accounts of one of the arrestees. Meanwhile, the investigation also revealed that a 55-year-old local woman and a 30-year-old local man transferred or received the suspected crime proceeds. During the period between January and December 2024, the total amount of the suspicious transactions handled by the three arrestees reached about $61 million.
Upon further investigation, Customs arrested the 55-year-old local woman and 30-year-old local man yesterday for “dealing with property known or reasonably believed to represent proceeds of an indictable offenses” (commonly known as money laundering) under the Organized and Serious Crimes Ordinance (OSCO) and searched their residential premises in Ho Man Tin and Tung Chung. Three mobile phones were seized in the operation. On the same day, Customs officers also further arrested a 63-year-old local woman who has been remanded due to the related drug trafficking case, for money laundering.
Two of the arrested persons have been released on bail pending investigation, while one arrested person continues to be remanded in custody. The investigation of the case is still ongoing, and the likelihood of further arrests is not ruled out.
Under the OSCO, a person commits an offence if he or she deals with any property knowing or having reasonable grounds to believe that such property, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly represents any person’s proceeds of an indictable offence. The maximum penalty upon conviction is a fine of $5 million and imprisonment for 14 years while the crime proceeds are also subject to confiscation.
Members of the public may report any suspected money laundering activities to Customs’ 24-hour hotline 182 8080 or its dedicated crime-reporting email account (crimereport@customs.gov.hk) or online form (eform.cefs.gov.hk/form/ced002). read more
​The Transport Department (TD) today (May 23) alerted members of the public to fraudulent website addresses that pretend to be the HKeToll (see the HKeToll website for details) and seek to deceive users into making … read more