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A Sleep Pod in Hong Kong

Sleep pods at G.O.D.'s Delay No Mall in Hong Kong's Causeway Bay offer escape from the frantic sh...

China AFP/Sam Wild

June 21, 2002, Hong Kong. A very nice and hot Friday afternoon. Brazil faces England in the quarterfinals. Your friends are in Japan watching the game. Still, there are many places you can catch the game from Hong Kong. One of them is Times Square, one of Hong Kong's major shopping malls.

World Cup Fever - Hong Kong

Start

China Albert Wen

Cracking Up

Khmer. Wat Pho?

This gave rise to the following exchange

Thailand / China Jack VanNoord

A machinist finishes sewing a toy in a factory in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen.

Toys, tennis shoes: southern China a hub for export manufacturing

* * * * * SHEKOU, China, Oct 29, 2002 - Rows of white-capped, mostly female workers hunch over cl...

China AFP/Lauren Gelfand

Police Museum Chronicles Hong Kong's Finest

Man-eating tigers mauling intrepid constables of the Hong Kong police. Special inspectors busting...

China Steven K. Bailey

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Watching the Horses with Bill Clinton

I certainly don't expect Bill Clinton to show up on my vacation, but here he is at the Happy Vall...

China Joe Lavin

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Violent student brawls a part of life in Asia's swelling cities

Large scale violence between students forms a backdrop to unrestrained urban growth in many of As...

Indonesia / Thailand / China AFP/Aubrey Belford

Combination Platter

Film Review: Combination Platter

Flushing, New York in the Borough of Queens, where Robert works as a waiter in a Chinese restaura...

China Celeste Heiter

Cover- Game Of Death

Martial Arts Reviews: Game Of Death

Bruce Lee's unfortunate death left a lot of his fans wanting more. He died before the release...

China Will Raus

The Feng Shui Detective Goes South

* * * * * Review of The Feng Shui Detective Goes South by Nury Vittachi, Chameleon Press 2002 * *...

China Joshua Samuel Brown

Film Review: Big Trouble In Little China

When the earth quakes and the thunder crashes and the pillars of heaven shake, there's only one m...

China Will Raus

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Top players see big growth in Asian snooker . . .

Thailand / China AFP

Film Review: Unleashed

In a time when the average martial-arts movie is a shallow film with just enough plot to justify ...

China Will Raus

A great hill dominates Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport. The shifting light seems to give it a lift of its own and the Chinese call it Lion Rock.

Cathay Pacific Airways

* * * Title: Beyond Lion Rock . The Story of Cathay Pacific Airways. Author: Gavin Young. Publish...

China ThingsAsian Booklist

The Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong, still the 'finest hotel east of Suez'.

At 75, Hong Kong's Peninsula Hotel is still going strong

HONG KONG, Dec 9, 2003 - A survivor of colonial Asia now surrounded by the buzz of Asian modernit...

China AFP/Jacques Boyer

At the border crossing between Thailand and Cambodia

Somehow my wife has gotten the idea that I operate with some sort of mental check list.

China Jack VanNoord

How to photograph an eclipse: don't look at it directly...

Eclipsed in Hong Kong

Partial (75%) solar eclipse in Hong Kong 8:15am, July 22. Be there...

China Albert Wen

Donghai Bridge

Donghai Bridge

China Tom

The Canada Post has printed almost 10 million stamps featuring the monkey king from a popular 16th century Chinese fairy tale to mark the Chinese Year of Monkey.

Chinese new year Canadian style

VANCOUVER, Canada, Jan 20, 2004 - New stamps, commemorative coins and even a cheque book designed...

China AFP/Michel Comte

Katie

Okay Honey, Call me if You Need Anything

She and her mother went apartment shopping and within a week they signed a lease on an apartment.

China Jack VanNoord

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