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Customers at a Hong Kong Ikea got an unexpected film screening when one of the store’s giant TV screens began playing a pornographic video. Ikea is still investigating how the big-screen TV ended up playing a film of a man pleasuring himself to an audience of shoppers in the Causeway Bay store. Chances are, someone’s […]
PHILIP FONG/AFP/Getty Images) One of Hong Kong’s fiercely pro-Beijing mastheads, Wen Wei Po, has revealed itself as the stalker of an Australian academic, nearly four days after he began tweeting evidence that he was being tailed around Hong Kong. Dr. Kevin Carrico, a Chinese studies lecturer at Australia’s Macquarie University, has been doing research in […]
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Applying for low-income public housing is rarely a walk in the park, but in Hong Kong, a city already bursting at the seams thanks to limited usable land and soaring real estate prices, the process is better described as a crawl. Across the East China Sea, winners of Japan’s welfare housing lottery generally wait five […]
With some smartphones, it seems inevitable that the closer the launch date, the more leaky they get. Google’s upcoming Pixel 3 series — due to launch in New York next Tuesday — is no exception, and I’m speaking as someone who had just gotten up close and personal with a Pixel 3 XL earlier today. […]
Typhoon Mangkhut Shuts Down 8th Busiest Airport in the World, Hong Kong Advertiser Disclosure The credit card offers that appear on the website are from credit card companies from which ThePointsGuy.com receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site (including, for example, the order in which they appear). This […]
Young Hongkongers have to violate the law by living in industrial buildings, as the insane prices for property in the region make it difficult to afford rent, much less buy a house. Surging house prices have pushed rents to record levels. Hong Kong is the world’s priciest home market, and one of the most densely […]
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Ashley Pon / Getty 32-year-old Hong Kong pop star Ellen Joyce Loo has been found dead. She was seen falling from a building in the Happy Valley area of Hong Kong. She had reportedly been diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2013. Hong Kong pop star Ellen Joyce Loo has died after falling from a building […]
Shortly before Charles Li boarded a plane to Beijing, the head of Hong Kong’s stock exchange admitted that there had been some “disagreements” over the future of Stock Connect, the trading link between Hong Kong and mainland China’s equity markets. At the heart of the dispute was a weekend announcement by the Shanghai and Shenzhen […]
