Operation Santa Claus 2023 is now inviting funding applications. The annual charity fundraising drive, jointly organised by Radio Television Hong Kong and the South China Morning Post,is looking forward... for the 36th time... to supporting a number of worthy causes. So far, Operation Santa Claus has raised more than 369 Million Hong Kong Dollars, for over 338 wonderful charity projects.
If you are a Hong Kong registered NGO, and you think Operation Santa Claus might be able to help you realise a great project, then visit our website here for more details.
The application submission deadline is Monday July the 17th at midday.

This year, RTHK is celebrating 95 years of public service broadcasting.

All this month on Hong Kong Heritage, producer and presenter Annemarie Evans will be looking back over the past 95 years in the life of Hong Kong’s public broadcaster. In this second part, Annemarie has a look around the RTHK library at some of our reel to reel tapes going back to the 1950s. The farewell to a governor in 1957, Typhoon Wanda, water shortages, the Macau Grand Prix, and the expansion at Kai Tak airport ahead of the Jumbo Jet, are on some of the reels, as are people with clipped accents and a flare for theatrical radio.  

Join Annemarie all this month for this four part special, looking back at RTHK’s 95 years of public service broadcasting... only on Hong Kong Heritage.

Saturdays 7.30am, with a repeat each Sunday 6.15pm

This week’s Sunday Escape sees Paul and Carolyn return with new music from the likes of JOHN (TIMES TWO), Wombo, Crawlers, Sprints, and PJ Harvey, along with tracks from brand new albums from Jenny Lewis, Squid, Dream Wife, Christine and the Queens, and Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit. That’s accompanied by whatever else the Pop Fugitives have in their record bags, which includes as part of the regular features music from Action Biker in Sweeping The Nation, as well as a chamber-pop rendition of a classics Associates single as the Sunday Cover Supplement. There’s also another Super Clever Music Quiz, the usual chat, and some truly amazing biscuits!

Tune in every Sunday from 9am to 1pm.

Join us this Sunday morning at 8.15 for #Hashtag Hong Kong, our weekly focus on matters affecting civil society, where we hear from representatives of NGOs, associations, non-profit groups and statutory bodies. They talk about their work, and the bigger issues they deal with. They also share their choice of music with you to end each programme.

In the wake of World Environment Day on June 5th, this week on Hashtag Hong Kong we’ll explore the topic of food waste, as one of the factors adding to the climate crisis. Our guest speaker is Fanny Lee, the Community Engagement Director of Feeding Hong Kong.

(Sunday mornings 8.15-8.25)

This week we're catching falling stars, walking the sidewalk blues, and heading off to Brazil, with big tunes from the 20s, 30s, 40s & 50s, featuring Johnny Dankworth, Jack Simpson & his sextet, and an unusual movie soundtrack hit!

Every Sunday morning from 8.30 to 9

This Sunday, we'll speak with a businesswoman who owns and runs BALAY TABLEAS, a cacao dining shop in Iloilo, Philippines. They will discuss how she established her business, as they seek words of wisdom that will inspire many OFWs (Overseas Filipino Workers) to achieve success in their home country. In the segment, USAPANG DISCUSSION, an exciting topic on 'how to be confident about yourself' will be in the conversation. And, as the Philippines celebrate its 125^th year of Independence on June 12, PINOY LIFE will read their listeners' input about their favorite National Heroes.

Join Aileen Alonzo-Hayward and Ron R. Lacson to laugh, sing, and learn with them.
Check out the PINOY LIFE Facebook page too.

Selected Radio 3 programmes and programme segments are now available on Spotify. Join us there to listen easily, whenever you like, to our new and already growing collection of podcasts.

Discover Radio 3's ever growing collection of podcasts here.
Updated daily, it includes all of our popular weekly programme segments, our news output, and several of our completely home made audio books, specially adapted for us by their authors.