This week’s print issue marks the debut of our new regular feature, Doing Good. Maybe I’m too excited for a one-page article. But this sums up an important part of what “how to live well” means to our team and in these times. Living well is not just caviar and cashmere. This is originality, creativity and curiosity. Engaging with the world around us, building community, building bridges not walls; something we feel we need now more than ever.

The Doing Good series spotlights people making a positive impact through charity, social enterprises or sustainability initiatives. Dave Besseling spent an afternoon making lunch boxes with More Good (I know there’s a lot of “good” in these paragraphs), a homegrown organization based in Chai Wan that has historically delivered nutritious meals to Hong Kong’s underserved communities. three years.

Making a difference isn’t always the only goal, but that doesn’t make it any less powerful. Gavin Yeung looks to popular rice noodle chain Tam Jai as an unlikely champion of women’s empowerment in the workplace. After reading this, I was intrigued enough to slurp down a bowl of cross-bridge noodles at my local branch that afternoon.

Our features are very diverse; takes us into the wilds of West Bali National Park, where Ian Lloyd Neubauer encountered the island’s largest native wildlife, and Paul French travels back in time as he chronicles the heyday of Hong Kong’s Repulse Bay Hotel and its high society. Guests such as Wallis Simpson and Ernest Hemingway. Both are a welcome break from the relentless tidal wave of American political news that has swept the world this week.

Ambition often requires a leap of faith. In our cover story, Patrick Suen speaks with Philip Ng, who moved from the United States to Hong Kong to pursue his dream of making it in kung fu movies. Twenty years later, the actor is trying to bring back the city’s golden age of action movies with his role in this film. Stuntman.