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Ho Ho Hong Kong

Mohammed Magdi and Vivek Mahbubani

Everything you need to know about Hong Kong. Each Monday local comedian Vivek Mahbubani and Egyptian comic Mohammed Magdi dive into something great about the city.

comedy stand-up

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00:51:29

#58 - Andy‘s break and the latest on the standup...

Ho Ho Hong Kong ·

2023/01/02

Mo joins the pod to announce he is taking over hosting duties with Vivek for the next little while. The standup scene is pumping along at the moment, and the guys talked about some massive shows coming up.

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00:46:24

#57 - Sustaining Hong Kong, with sustainability...

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2023/01/02

Hong Kong's got an unreasonable amount of people living in unreasonably small spaces. And Dr Merrin Pearse's on a mission to make the metropolis continue. Pearse was described as an urban vigilante for HK sustainability. He's an advisor at Purpose Business, and chair at the Living Islands Movement (a local group dedicated to the sustainable environment of the outlying islands). He also founded a consultancy helping companies achieve their sustainability goals. He told us what the city's doing well,

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00:48:18

#56 - The neutering of Hong Kong, with author Antony...

Ho Ho Hong Kong ·

2023/01/02

Antony's (@antd) become the resident podcast voice on all things political. Since he last visited, the crackdowns on Hong Kong have been unrelenting and severe. Including vast arrests, mass bail denial, the gov claiming Jimmy Lai's assets, and 7,000 officers deployed to Victoria Park to crush any whisper of a vigil for the Tiananmen Square massacre. Dapiran is a Hong Kong-based writer and lawyer, and wrote two HK books City on Fire and City of Protest. He's appeared in The Atlantic, The Guardian,

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00:51:48

#55 - HK‘s television industry, with TV star Vicky...

Ho Ho Hong Kong ·

2023/01/02

Vicky Chan 陳偉琪 is a well-known face around Hong Kong, having played Jenny on the hit TVB series Come Home Love: Lo and Behold (愛·回家之開心速遞). She was also previously crowned Miss HK, and separately Miss Chinese Vancouver. She talked about her journey to the big leagues, the pressures of fame in Hong Kong, and the strategies that kept her above the fray and on top of the pile.

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00:51:51

#54 - Capturing Hong Kong‘s diversity, with Dear Hong...

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2023/01/02

Dear Hong Kong is a well-known photo book featuring inspiring people from different countries, all living in Hong Kong, and their contribution to the city. You can check it out here. The stories are outstanding and it also looks super slick. Oskar Valles has interviewed more than 90 people from different countries including teacher and ex-prisoner Dawit Debasai from Eritrea, and former Pakistani pilo Ajmal Samuel who became a Paralympic medalist.

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00:55:02

#53 - Vaccine hesitancy in HK, with infectious...

Ho Ho Hong Kong ·

2023/01/02

Professor Cowling is the Division Head of Epidemiology at HKU and a co-director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Infections Disease Epidemiology and Control. And we're super excited to have him back on the pod. We talked about vaccine hesitancy, addressed the major fears being expressed by the hesitant, immunisation against variants, the need for boosters, and the incentives being used to get people vaccinated.

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00:47:00

#52 - Empowering women in HK to play more sport, with...

Ho Ho Hong Kong ·

2023/01/02

Cissy Radford runs a sensational podcast called In The Changing Room, all about women in sport. She also works with WISE HK (Women In Sport Empowered HK) and is a passionate advocate for getting people active. We talked about the situation for females in the city, what sports are taking off, and the work that's being done to move the needle.

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00:58:20

#51 - Colonial British police in Hong Kong, with...

Ho Ho Hong Kong ·

2023/01/02

Guy Shirra moved to Hong Kong from England and served as an officer for the Royal Hong Kong Police force from 1967 until the Handover in 1997. His stories are surreal and there were far too many for us to fully cover. He talked about terrorism from across the border in the '60s, corruption, opium raids in the Kowloon walled city, and the catastrophic Po Shan Road landslide at which he was an early responder. Guy's fantastic autobiography The Accidental Prawn is available on Kindle here. Hard copies

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00:45:16

#50 - Volunteering with the famous, with Time Auction...

Ho Ho Hong Kong ·

2023/01/02

Fion Leung is the founder of Time Auction, a tech-enabled charity connecting volunteers with their idols. The group enlists famous and important voices in the region, who give up their time to reward those who give their time to charities. It's a far out idea that's taken off. Get more details at https://timeauction.org/ She's also a co-founder of the Mindfulness Movement, and shared a ton of insight into the charities and how Time Auction found it's groove.

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00:42:52

#49 - The debacles and victories of HK‘s vaccine...

Ho Ho Hong Kong ·

2023/01/02

The vaccine rollout in Hong Kong has been both sensational and a total circus. There's been ineffective vaccines, halts on BioNTech, people getting the wrong vaccine, vaccinated people getting sick, and somehow Andy and Mo managed to get jabbed. We diced up all the gory details.

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00:57:52

#48 - The man in HK revolutionising how we make...

Ho Ho Hong Kong ·

2023/01/02

John Buckman's a London-born, French-raised, kind-of American who cut his teeth founding companies in Silicon Valley that aimed to make the world fair. His most recent project is Decent Espresso, aimed at reinventing serious coffee machines, launching them into the digital age, and building a community of obsessed fans who actively participate in making kickass machines.

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00:49:32

#47 - The story of why Mohammed fled to China

Ho Ho Hong Kong ·

2023/01/02

This is the original interview Andy did with Mohammed Magdi in Shanghai 2015. Mo's story of leaving the political strife in Egypt to live in northern China is genuinely insane.

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00:49:44

#46 - The most famous gweilo of all time, with 河國榮...

Ho Ho Hong Kong ·

2023/01/02

河國榮 Gregory Charles Rivers has a face every Hong Konger knows well. Over his prolific 30-year acting career he's been THE white guy, appearing in more than 200 soap operas. He's been in big films and performs the real deal Cantopop. He also famously blew the city away when he unleashed Cantonese rap of 'Forever ATV' which won him the title of "Hong Kong's most popular male singer 2015".

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00:44:42

#45 - The King of Green, with OmniPork, Green Common...

Ho Ho Hong Kong ·

2023/01/02

David Yeung is the founder of OmniPork, Green Common and Green Mondays. And won the Social Entrepreneur of the Year award at the World Economic Forum. He was recognised in Fortune's 2020 'Change The World' list. And is the author of several best-selling books on Zen wisdom and mindfulness.

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00:46:03

#44 - We have shows again (maybe)!! With Mohammed,...

Ho Ho Hong Kong ·

2023/01/02

We finally try to solve the mystery, are Mohammed and Vivek different people?? Shows are back on in HK, or actually we're not even sure anymore. We've had two weeks of shows and with cases popping up everywhere, who knows.

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00:41:42

#43 - A powerhouse in HK radio, with RTHK Radio 3‘s...

Ho Ho Hong Kong ·

2023/01/02

Alyson Hau has dominated the airwaves since joining Metro Radio as a 16 year old. Since then she's covered the Olympics, the World Expo, world premieres for major films including Transformers and Twilight, and interviewed massive music acts such as Maroon 5, Backstreet Boys and Lady Gaga. She told us about the good, the bad and the ugly of meeting superstars, and what it takes to nail a great interview.

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00:54:57

#42 - The dealmaker who secured Disneyland Hong Kong,...

Ho Ho Hong Kong ·

2023/01/02

Mike Rowse carries a formidable expat CV. He negotiated the deal that brought Disneyland to Hong Kong, acting on behalf of the government. And was the first expat in HK's history to naturalise as a Chinese national. He was the city's first commissioner for tourism, and the first director of the Financial Secretary's office. He was also on the Independent Commission Against Corruption that changed the city. It keeps going on... In short, the man's got some insane stories.

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00:46:22

#41 - Hong Kong‘s street sleepers, with Impact HK...

Ho Ho Hong Kong ·

2023/01/02

You don't have to walk far in the city to find street sleepers. Or walk past a McDonald's late at night to see the city's McRefugees. Jeff Rotmeyer founded Impact HK which has grown into a force of nature changing the fate of Hong Kong's abandoned residents.

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00:48:14

#40 - Chinese New Year special, with Tim Chan

Ho Ho Hong Kong ·

2023/01/02

Happy new year everybody! Cantonese comedian Tim Chan joins us to ring in the bull year and the three of us talk about how we each celebrate the holiday differently.

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00:47:01

#39 - What‘s going on in HK‘s schools? Politics and...

Ho Ho Hong Kong ·

2023/01/02

It's been a tough year for schools, with prolonged lockdowns, homeschooling and the threat of 'sanitised' curricula. We sat down with a teacher on the inside to find out what's up.

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