Hong Kong engineers want to expand the city by building parts of it…

While other cities grow by building out or up, Hong Kong is looking to increase its usable space by building down. An urban planning initiative is exploring the possibility of burying some of the city's more unsightly facilities underground, freeing the above-ground land for future development.

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Check the morbid listings for Hong Kong's haunted houses

Hong Kong has one of the most expensive housing markets in the world, with home prices rising 70 percent since 2009. But a new real estate niche market offers greatly discounted home prices, if you're willing to bunk with the former residents' ghosts.

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Hong Kong's sidewalks are literally overflowing with shark fins

If you're a fan of sharks — scratch that, if you're a fan of the ocean, in general — prepare to have your day ruined. You're looking at a video, shot by Oceanic Love's Gary Stokes, that reveals how shark fins are laid out to dry by the thousands along the sidewalks of Sheung Wan, Hong Kong.

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The best kung fu movie ever to involve a chariot pulled by German…

I honestly have no idea who Sardonicus1313 is, but his YouTube channel is an audiovisual museum of oh-so-many deranged martial arts gems (previously: 1, 2, 3). Today's brown-acid battle scene is from the 1983 Hong Kong action flick Demon of the Lute. What happens? A puppy chariot shows up, orange hair is grown in fast…

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The Hong Kong Toy Story fashion show you never knew you wanted

Today via Twitter, Toy Story 3 director Lee Unkrich introduced Pixar fans to Hong Kong fashion label Bossini's Toy Story-themed clothing line. As this lookbook demonstrates, it's some zany albeit oddly heart-warming couture. If you want to dress like a plastic cowboy with the voice of a Bosom Buddy, you'll have to be …

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Transformers cosplay is equal parts nifty and uncomfortable

At a recent Nokia event in Hong Kong, Optimus Prime and Starscream showed up to impress telecommunication aficionados with their ability to become Power-Wheels-sized conveyances. Watch as these Transformers become robots only somewhat in disguise.

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Hong Kong moviemakers filming 3D porno, bringing us one step closer to …

A Hong Kong production crew is currently filming 3-D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy, a $3.2 million 3D film based on the Chinese erotic tale The Carnal Prayer Mat. Could this be what saves the ailing XXX movie theater industry?

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Al Gore as a randy computer avatar = the future of news?

Taiwan's NMA News creates computer-animated depictions of current events that drive a flaming dune buggy into the uncanny valley. NMA's 3D take on the Leno-Conan tiff was amusing, but their version of the Al Gore sex scandal allegations is transcendental...

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