Avery Choi

A shocking attack by suspected triad members in Hong Kong has focused attention on Yuen Long, a northern district where the violence took place. It is a bustling district in Hong Kong’s New Territories, where, less than a century ago, visitors found little more than a cluster of agricultural villages. In the 1980s, Yuen Long’s town center was built and a new residential town called Tin Shui Wai was established. But people in the district still cling to their cultural heritage and traditional roots. Denise Tsang, a reporter with the South China Morning Post, visits the neighborhood.

Hong Kong singer-activist Denise Ho called on the United Nations Human Rights Council to protect Hong Kong’s democracy and human rights, which she said are under attack. Watch her remarks, delivered in Geneva on July 8, 2019, in the video above.

Baijiu is the most-consumed spirit in the world, but most of those drinkers are in China. Producers of the spirit want to change that. Although people drank some 2.7 billion gallons of baijiu in 2018, efforts to take “China’s national drink” abroad have so far failed to take off. Yet distilleries in China remain optimistic they can follow the path to international fame taken by once-obscure drinks such as vodka and tequila. Watch the video above to find out more.

Meet a new type of social media celebrity: the “granfluencer.” They are elderly social stars who are proving that the online world is not an exclusive club for millennials. Adored by millions of people of all ages, the granfluencers are bridging the generation gap as they encourage others their age to embrace the internet. Watch the video above to see how their tips about living an ageless lifestyle are finding plenty of younger fans too.