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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

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

Waiting to be in the police line-up in Hong Kong

Number Six, Please turn to Your Right

In Hong Kong, either they have a different way of doing things or they simply don't have an abund...

China Jack VanNoord

Hong Kong Duet-Voices of Old Hong Kong

Hong Kong's Chinatown When you explore the western district of Hong Kong Island, you enter into a...

China Robert Tompkins

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

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You've seen them in the movies. Maybe you've seen them on the news. For all I know, you could be ...

China Kenneth Champeon

Dreaming Under Purple Bedsheets: Hong Kong's Regal Airport Hotel

On my last morning in Hong Kong I awoke from a sound night's sleep, pulled back my purple bedcove...

China Steven K. Bailey

This shot was taken on a one of our increasingly rare good-air days from the ferry heading to Lamma Island.

Hong Kong: Skyline, Culture and Maids

A story told with photos.

China Joshua Samuel Brown

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Lunar New Year Traditions

HONG KONG, Jan 22, 2004 - Hongkongers will play mah jong but superstition prevents them from bett...

China / Taiwan AFP/Mark McCord

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In the mood for moon

All over the world, Chinese families get together to celebrate the beauty of the brightest object...

China Blue Lam

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Hong Kong's Beatles Bar

Mr. Moonlight, 12/F Henry House, 40-42 Yun Ping Road, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong.

China AFP/Richard A. Brooks

Three-Way Dumplings

Recipe: Three-Way Dumplings

Enjoy your dumplings three tasty ways, with Shrimp-Filled Fried Dumplings, Chicken-Filled Potstic...

China Celeste Heiter

Reflections

Hong Kong Island - Reflections

ong Kong Island - Reflections

China Tom

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Beggars. To give or not to give?

Despite all the flattering statistics about an economy taking flight, the truth is, there are man...

China Blue Lam

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Nouvelle Chinese revolution in Hong Kong restaurants

HONG KONG, Dec 14, 2003 - Three generations around one table, the two-year-old wielding chopstick...

China AFP/Rosa Jackson

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World's Best Santa weaves Hong Kong magic

The World's Best Santa? He is a Hong Kong man named Jimmy Chan...

China AFP/Joyce Woo

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Christmas in Asia

From war zones to malls, Christmas comes to Asia...

China AFP/Lawrence Bartlett

Star Ferry, Kowloon

Kowloon, Star Ferry

Kowloon, Star Ferry

China Tom

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Hong Kong on the Web

Discover Hong Kong. A project of the Hong Kong tourism board. Site offers complete information on...

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