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Film Review: Mr. Nice Guy

Mr. Nice Guy is a 1997 Hong Kong film directed by Sammo Hung Kam-Bo, and starring Jackie Chan. Th...

China Celeste Heiter

Cracking Up

Khmer. Wat Pho?

This gave rise to the following exchange

Thailand / China Jack VanNoord

Curse of the Golden Flower

Martial Arts Reviews: Curse of the Golden Flower

Review of Curse of the Golden Flower, a beautiful and lush film, declared to be a martial arts ma...

China Will Raus

Inside the Big Buddha

I love the constant crowds of Hong Kong. I love the shopping and the nightlife, but sometimes eno...

China Joe Lavin

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

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

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

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

The Feng Shui Detective Goes South

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

China Joshua Samuel Brown

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

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Pairing Wine with Chinese Food

The heat is on for chefs and sommeliers to match wine with the wildly, deliciously diverse Canton...

China AFP/Suzanne Mustacich

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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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Top players see big growth in Asian snooker . . .

Thailand / China AFP

'Mr. Nice Guy' Hong Kong Dinner Recipes & Photos

Sashimi Rice Paper Rolls 6 rice paper wrappers Filling: 1/2 pound sushi-grade tuna, sliced into t...

China Celeste Heiter

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

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

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

River boats in Bangkok

Parliament is in Session

I was starting to get the feeling that we had just been hustled.

China Jack VanNoord

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A Lady on a Tramp

A review of Victorian Isabella Bird's travels through the Far East.

Malaysia / Singapore / China Kenneth Champeon

Donghai Bridge

Donghai Bridge

China Tom

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