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This video tapestry documenting Hong Kongers’ opinions about air pollution, was a result of the efforts of Focus on Film, a non-profit organization, to teach over 200 students the technique of film making.

Spurred on by celebrity style or simply looking for a new way to stand out in a city of seven million, Hong Kong women are increasingly taking to tattoos – an art form long considered taboo.

Macau, Asia’s foremost den of neon-soaked excess and sleazy glamour, has expanded to the brink of catastrophe and may be forced to ration drinking water as reservoirs run dry.

Indeed, to the horror of big casino operators, there are signs that non-essential supplies may be cut off as early as this weekend as authorities struggle to keep non-toxic water flowing through the taps.

The convent school became a field hospital, later where Japanese casualties from China and South East Asia were sent to recover. The houses around the church, villa style in the westernized South China style, were occupied by Japanese officers, which protected the buildings from being looted. The church was not affected, because Italy and Japan were allies.

Change the time of day in Hong Kong City as you move your mouse pointer up and down the picture.

Where has Hong Kong gone? Once a world filmmaking capital, it has nearly vanished from the silver screen. Each year, far fewer feature films are made here than in cities such as Vancouver, Seoul and Tehran. What’s more, many recent Hong Kong movies, geared towards the lucrative mainland market, lack the local flavour that once made them so distinctive.

What is it about air travel that seems to make people crazy?

Earlier today we had a report about a Japanese couple's altercation on a China Eastern Airlines plane.

For a real hoot, check out this video of a Chinese woman who goes absolutely bat shit when she realizes she has missed her Cathay Pacific flight out of Hong Kong.

It's one of the sunniest cities in the world, but more than six out of 10 people in sub-tropical Hong Kong get too little sunshine, according to a survey published Sunday. More than 62 per cent of people examined for a University of Hong Kong study were found to be suffering from vitamin D deficiency even though about two-thirds of the days in the year are sunny and hot.

Hong Kong - Life would be meaningless and not worth living without the internet, nearly one in seven Hong Kong youngsters said in a survey released Friday. Just under 14 per cent of 1,800 respondents aged 12 to 25 insisted they could not live without the internet while 80 per cent described it as essential.

Aljazeera is a cool site and often has stuff on East Asia that stuffy old news sites in Japan doesnt.

Lance Rancier’s 1998 book “The Sex Chronicles: Strange-But-True Tales from Around the World” contains an account of a bizarre, and expensive type of bawdy waterboarding allegedly offered by Japanese prostitutes who used to operate aboard sampans in Hong Kong harbor.