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This week: our editorial standards, wellness guides, and Wong Tai Sin

This update rounds out the About department, which had lagged behind the rest of the site, alongside smaller additions to Do and Places.

What's new

  • About — two new pages spelling out how the site actually works: our editorial standards (what we verify before publishing, and what we deliberately don't claim), and our advertising & disclosure policy (no paid placement, full stop).
  • Do — a wellness & spas guide, from hotel spas to inexpensive neighbourhood foot massage shops.
  • Places — Wong Tai Sin and Diamond Hill, pairing one of the city's busiest temples with one of its quietest gardens.

Why the About pages now

Every news update on this site has talked about "verifying" facts before publishing — it felt overdue to actually spell out what that means in practice, rather than leaving it as a phrase repeated without explanation.