Israel's Tel Aviv has surpassed Hong Kong and Singapore to become the world's most expensive city to live in, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).

Hong Kong police said on Wednesday (Dec. 1) that they have uncovered a fraud ring active in Southeast Asia and arrested 27 people in total on suspicion of money laundering over alleged online dating scams involving a total of HK$15 million. The operation was jointly carried out with Interpol and police in Malaysia. 

The delegation of Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Mainland Olympians will visit Hong Kong from Dec. 3 to Dec. 5. They will give two sports demonstrations this Saturday morning (Dec. 4), and attend the "Mainland Olympians Variety Show" in the afternoon of that day.

Virgil Abloh, the American-born son of Ghanaian immigrants who became fashion's highest-profile Black designer and the creative mind behind Louis Vuitton's menswear collections, died on Sunday (Nov. 28) at age 41, following a two-year battle with a rare form of cancer.

Written and directed by Hwang Dong-hyuk, Squid Game is a profoundly resonant work that deals with the human psychology of inequality and economic exploitation in capitalist South Korea. The mini-series picks up the threads of the moral convulsions of big-budget dystopian survival dramas like 2000's Japanese movie Battle Royale and The Hunger Games movie franchise. But as razor-sharp modern K-content, it more thematically works as a running accompaniment to 2019's Oscar-winning Parasite, which offered a glimpse into South Korea's raging class divisions.

If anything encapsulates the theorem of pop culture as shoo-in for modern political discourse, Squid Game is it. That it happens to be the most-watched Netflix series ever solidifies its status as cultural phenomena nonpareil. 2.1 billion hours of the show have been viewed since its September release. That's roughly 239,700 years of continuous streaming.

The Development Bureau announced that the Pierside Precinct near Wan Chai Ferry Pier further opened on Friday (Nov. 26), providing a nostalgic harbourfront leisure space with a panoramic view of Victoria Harbour for the public.

In collaboration with the Bruce Lee Foundation, the Hong Kong Heritage Museum will present some 400 invaluable items of Bruce Lee memorabilia in the exhibition titled "A Man Beyond the Ordinary: Bruce Lee," with large-scale multimedia and interactive programs. His films, martial arts achievements and life story show how Lee Jun-fon's perseverance gave birth to the legend that is Bruce Lee.

The beloved guest of DotDotNews' latest episode of "Be My Guest", Julia Wen, a Hong Kong poet and also an elegant, classy, lovely lady, launched her fourth book of poetry "My Magic Circle" on Nov. 12 in a private Clubhouse.

The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) announced today (Nov. 25) announced samples of 315 hot pot ingredients on the local market samples were taken for chemical and microbiological tests, and all of them passed the examination. Customers can be assured when shopping for hot pot food.

As the first Chinese film to focus on the safety of women who live alone, "The Door Lock" raked in more than 130 million yuan (about US$20.35 million) in just five days.

The Leisure & Cultural Services Department announced on Tuesday (Nov. 23) that around 5,300 tickets for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Mainland Olympians delegation sports demonstrations and variety show will be sold from 10 a.m. this Friday (Nov.26).

Curtain just fell on the 8th Wuzhen Theatre Festival last month in Wuzhen, Zhejiang in China. This year, the theme of the festival is "Burgeoning." 

The Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) will hold its first "Hong Kong New Year Countdown Concert" on New Year's Eve, Dec. 31, in which 3,000 tickets will be distributed free of charge through a lucky draw.

Beset by delays and one globe-spanning pandemic, visitors can finally enter M+, Hong Kong's newest tome of visual arts and culture. Designed by Herzog & de Meuron, the T-shaped game cartridge-in-console museum is already an explosive presence on the famous Victoria Harbour waterfront.