Move over, Easter Bunny: cats are the stars in Hong Kong this holiday

Hong Kong has swapped the Easter Bunny for a festive feline, with giant cat installations and murals delighting visitors and residents citywide.A gigantic ginger cat has been greeting travellers at Hong Kong International Airport while three inflatable marmalade felines lie sprawled across a lawn at the West Kowloon Cultural District, delighting visitors to the arts hub.In Yau Ma Tei, local artist German Li and his students have reimagined Vincent van Gogh’s classic painting The Starry Night as a cat-themed mural, while at Silvermine Bay Hotel in Mui Wo, a one-floor-tall mural features a three-dimensional cat sleeping belly-up.Most of these installations sprang up in the past few days.Mural Meow Mission, by German Li and his students, is a tribute to Vincent van Gogh’s famous painting The Starry Night. Photo: Dickson LeeAt the airport’s arrival hall, scores of people snapped selfies with the giant cat – eight metres (26 feet) long, seven metres wide and 3.5 metres tall – whose ears and tail move.