The Kongs meet up with friends back in Hong Kong

* Bill Kong meets up with Robert Guy at the Hong Kong concert.

Well-known Llangollen resident Bill Kong has been meeting up with friends from back home on his latest trip to Hong Kong.

Bill so loved volunteering every year at the town's world-famous Musical Eisteddfod that he moved here from Hong Kong a few years back with his family.

He is currently staying in the former British colony due to family commitments and recently met up with a friend who also has strong Eisteddfod links, Wrexham-based conductor Robert Guy.

* Robert Guy with Selana Kong, Bill's wife, who is also well-known in Llangollen.

Robert is principal conductor to the Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Orchestra and has conducted the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Manchester Camerata which led to his work being on BBC radio and even recorded for Sony Play Station.

His international reputation is steadily growing with invitations to conduct in Austria, South Korea, Vietnam, Kazakhstan and Kosovo, among other destinations.

He and Bill first met when the New Sinfonia Orchestra, which he founded with his brother Jonathan, began playing at the Eisteddfod. 

In Hong Kong Robert was wielding the baton with the Hong Kong City Chamber Orchestra as it played a successful concert entitled A Night at the Musicals.  

It was old home week again for Bill when he was attending the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) Wine and Spirit Fair. 

There he happened to bump into Dylan, son of Kelly, the former owner of the River Dragon Chinese restaurant in Llangollen's Bridge Street. 

* Bill Kong (second left) meets another friend from Llangollen, Dylan (next to him on right), whose family ran the River Dragon Chinese restaurant in Bridge Street.