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South China Morning Post
25-06-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
These youths are making us question everything we knew about street dance
Kendrick Lamar's 2024 hit 'Not Like Us' crescendoed, the two battle-ready competitors faced off, and the final round of the Red Bull Dance Your Style university qualifier was under way. Advertisement Among the 16 contestants at The Burrow in San Po Kong in April, the race for the crown came down to the sultry shoulder rolls and eccentric arm twirls of Chlorine, a whacker repping the red team, and the dips and twitches of Wing, the popper in blue. Wing, aka Chow Cheuk-wing, champion of the Red Bull Dance Your Style 2025 university qualifier at The Burrow in San Po Kong, Hong Kong, in April. Photo: LEWIMAGE The two teams' flags fluttered over the rambunctious crowd of students and dancers, both aspiring and accomplished, as they raised their colour to cast their votes. By a narrow margin, 23-year-old Wing, or Chow Cheuk-wing, took home his first Red Bull championship. Sporting a basketball jersey over a checked shirt, a grey tie and dark jeans with oversized pockets, Chow was elated about this unexpected win, an impressive step up from his results last year, when he was voted off in the quarter-finals. A year-two psychology student at the Hong Kong Metropolitan University, Chow learned popping five years ago, when his friend signed up for a class after watching the mainland Chinese reality-competition show Street Dance of China. He has since entered competitions in Hong Kong and Macau, hoping to kick-start a dance career – 'teaching perhaps?' – but doubts that popping, or street dancing overall, would be accepted in the 'critical, closed-minded cultural desert' that is Hong Kong. Team Division ChestRoll celebrate during the World of Dance 2023 Dance Competition at Southorn Stadium in Wan Chai, Hong Kong. Photo: Edmond So Various forms of street dance have been growing, nevertheless, thanks in part to the infectious popularity of K-pop, local girl and boy bands such as Collar and Mirror, and sponsored events like Red Bull Dance Your Style platforming new talent.
South China Morning Post
20-06-2025
- Business
- South China Morning Post
Hong Kong wedding firm boss arrested as closure leaves couples in lurch
Customs officers have arrested the owner of a Hong Kong wedding decoration company that closed suddenly leaving more than 100 engaged couples in dismay, with the firm revealed to have racked up hundreds of thousands of dollars in debts. Acting assistant superintendent Ho Wai-sum of customs' unfair trade practice investigation division said officers arrested the 40-year-old male owner of a wedding decoration company based in San Po Kong on Friday after receiving 166 complaints about the firm allegedly wrongly accepting payments. 'We suspect that when the owner received prepaid sums, there were no reasonable reasons to believe the company could provide the services promised,' he said. Last month, the suspected closure of Ps Wedding and Event Decoration, which had an office in San Po Kong, sparked 31 complaints to the Consumer Council involving more than HK$337,000 (US$43,200) in losses. Ho revealed that the 166 complaints made to customs involved HK$1.9 million in total, with each contract for between HK$3,000 and HK$40,000. The acting superintendent said preliminary investigations showed that the company, which had been operating for 13 years, owed money for rent and salaries before its abrupt closure.
South China Morning Post
17-05-2025
- South China Morning Post
Hong Kong police investigating after woman found dead under pile of items in flat
Hong Kong police have launched an investigation after a woman was found dead under a pile of items in her flat. Advertisement Officers attended the home at Rhythm Garden, located in the San Po Kong area of Wong Tai Sin district, after receiving a call from the woman's brother at 8.16pm on Saturday. He said he had been unable to contact her for two days and had found her in the bedroom of the flat with only her arm visible from the clutter. The woman was confirmed dead at the scene by emergency services. Police are investigating the cause of death. Advertisement On May 7, the skeletal remains of a man were discovered by a Housing Department employee in the bathroom of a flat in Shek Lei (I) Estate in Kwai Tsing.
