A Teochew-language film exploring Chinese migration and heritage has achieved significant box office success in China, while also igniting discussions across Southeast Asia regarding China's soft power and influence among Chinese diaspora communities.
Liu Xiuhong, from Jiangxi, China, was reunited with her birth family 22 years after running away at age nine. Fearing punishment for breaking a shower gel bottle, she fled and was adopted. Now 31, she used police and volunteer help to find her original family.
Beijing has appointed Yuan Gujie, a senior Guangdong official with a legal background, as a deputy director of its liaison office in Hong Kong, succeeding Liu Guangyuan.
Hong Kong's transport sector is urging faster cross-border immigration clearance and an expansion of the Northbound Travel for Hong Kong Vehicles scheme to include more mainland Chinese cities beyond Guangdong. The scheme, extended to 2031, allows local cars to enter Guangdong for up to 30 days per trip.
A 56-year-old Chinese farmer from Guangdong province underwent surgery after discovering a 1.3kg, 10cmx13cm bladder stone causing severe urinary issues for three years, leading to bilateral hydronephrosis and risking uraemia.
A 15-year-old Chinese girl who has been suffering from a severe blood disorder most of her life is slowly recovering after receiving a transplant from her newborn brother. Xiaoyan from southern China’s Guangdong province is now only 140cm tall, and weighs just 25kg. She was diagnosed with thalassemia, an inherited blood disorder, at three months old. Her father, a construction worker, and her jobless mother did not arrange standard treatment for her except for regular blood transfusions. It was...
Authorities will negotiate with operators of popular care homes in Guangdong province to secure more places for elderly Hongkongers to meet rising demand, the welfare minister has said, amid a ninefold surge in city residents moving into such facilities across the border in recent years. Secretary for Labour and Welfare Chris Sun Yuk-han said in an interview with the South China Morning Post that the number of elderly Hong Kong residents living in care homes under the Residential Care Services...
A 24-year-old cancer patient in Foshan, China, sparked a viral relay of kindness after ordering companionship through a food delivery app on April 15. Little Li, battling rare blood cancer, asked a rider to sit by her bedside for two hours, highlighting her loneliness during treatment with her father working away to fund her care.
Guangdong province will “actively align” with Hong Kong’s strategy for the Northern Metropolis megaproject and highlight areas of collaboration as part of the province’s 15th five-year plan. The Guangdong provincial government on Tuesday published its development blueprint, with the term “Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area” mentioned 57 times in the document and a chapter dedicated to the region’s development. Its proposal for economic and social development, as part of Beijing’s...
Chickens are transforming from dinner table fare to cherished household companions in China's first-tier cities, with social media posts about 'pet chickens' amassing over 3.1 billion views. In Guangdong province, known for its poultry consumption culture, one woman named Aguai chose to keep chicks she hatched from eggs gifted by relatives, sparking a growing trend of urban chicken ownership.
Surgeons in southern China have removed an 8cm-long worm from a woman’s brain after she suffered from multiple mystery health problems. The 61-year-old had brain surgery at a hospital in Guangdong province in early April, the Shenzhen Evening News reported. Doctors said the existence of the parasite may have been due to an experience the woman had when she was young. She recalled that when she was a teenager, her mother caught a frog in the wild and inserted the croaker’s leg into her tooth...
