Building a UK business as a Hongkonger is hard enough — doing it bilingually shouldn’t make it harder.
I keep meeting Hongkonger founders in London who’ve built something real — a clinic, a property practice, a restaurant, a small consultancy. The work is good. The reviews are good. What they don’t have is a marketing team, and they don’t have time to build one.
So they end up doing it themselves at midnight, or paying someone who doesn’t quite understand the cultural register, or simply not doing it at all.
That’s why I worked with Hongkongers Magazine to put this together. — Gina
Sources verified to primary publications. See footnotes.
More than 230,000 BNO visas have been granted since 2021, with over 170,000 Hongkongers now settled in Britain1. Most are working-age, university-educated professionals2. They’re not a future audience — they’re already here, already reading, already deciding where to spend their money. Hongkongers Magazine reaches them through the channels they actually use.
Hongkongers Magazine is distributed free across London and Surrey — including Colindale, Ealing, Guildford, Harrow, Kingston, Richmond, Sutton, and Woking — through libraries, churches, restaurants, shops, and community fairs in the areas where Hongkongers in the UK actually live and gather.
I know how this usually goes. You start a Word doc, write three sentences in English, switch to Cantonese, get pulled into a customer call, come back two days later, and the doc still says three sentences.
You’re not bad at writing. You’re just running a business.
That’s where we come in. Our team produces bilingual editorial content, visuals, and short-form video that sounds natural in both English and Cantonese — without the overhead of building it in-house.
Bilingual articles and ad copy that sound natural in both English and Cantonese. Editorial register, not literal translation.
Copy, visuals, and short-form video concepts that match Hongkongers Magazine’s editorial style and the platforms your customers actually use.
Structured for Google and AI-driven search. Content that keeps bringing traffic to your business long after the print issue closes.
Quick chat. You share your story, your goals, who you want to reach.
Bilingual content and visuals built around your business — drafted by V8’s team, reviewed against Hongkongers Magazine’s editorial standards.
Nothing goes live without your sign-off. Cultural and tonal accuracy is your call, always.
Content runs in Hongkongers Magazine and feeds across your website, social, and email. One piece of work, multiple touchpoints.
Pricing starts where the work makes commercial sense. Most clients combine two or more services in their first engagement; some start with one piece and scale from there.
| Service | Investment | What’s included |
|---|---|---|
| Content writing | From £150 | Editorial articles, web copy, bilingual production with English and Cantonese versions |
| Image production | From £150 for 3 images | Custom graphics, product photography concepts, visual content |
| AI video production | From £300 per short | Short-form social videos, product demos, brand stories |
Hongkongers Magazine is published every two months. Placement options run from full-page brand statements to entry-level eighth and sixteenth-page ads. Sizes shown in trim format.
| Placement | Investment | Specifications |
|---|---|---|
| Inside front cover | £650 | 303mm × 216mm bleed / 297mm × 210mm trim |
| Back cover | £650 | 303mm × 216mm bleed / 297mm × 210mm trim |
| Full page (portrait) | £600 | 303mm × 216mm bleed / 297mm × 210mm trim |
| Half page (landscape) | £350 | 148mm × 210mm trim |
| Quarter page (portrait) | £190 | 148mm × 105mm trim |
| Eighth page (landscape) | £100 | 74mm × 105mm trim |
| Sixteenth page (portrait) | £80 | 74mm × 52mm trim |
Hongkongers Magazine is the free bilingual living magazine for Hongkongers in the UK, published every two months by Readable Press Limited. The magazine covers culture, community, business, and everyday life — written for Hongkongers, by Hongkongers, in both English and Cantonese.
Tell me a little about your business and what you’d like to reach. I’ll come back to you within two working days with options that make sense for where you are.
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