The HongWrong website closed in 2015, but the blog lives on over at Hong Kong Free Press.
Below is a list of our best posts since its inception. To browse different sections in full you can also click the categories listed on the sidebar to the right.
Exploring forgotten corners of HK where nature is winning…
- Abandoned TV studios near Sai Kung.
- Abandoned Villages in HK’s ‘Wild West’ (Fan Lau).
- Central’s Abandoned Prison and Police Station.
- Fung Hang Semi-Abandoned Village.
- HK’s Abandoned ‘Ghost Island’, Yim Tin Tsai.
- Kuk Po, Part 1: Photos from HK’s Borderzone Ghost Town.
- Kuk Po, Part 2: More Shots from the Abandoned Village Outpost.
- Kuk Po: Part 3: Interview with the Only Villager.
- Kuk Po, Part 4: Plover Cove Abandoned Ghost Town Revisited.
- Lai Chi Wo: The Semi-Abandoned Hakka Walled Village in Plover Cove.
- Luk Keng Chan Uk Semi-Abandoned Village.
- Ma On Shan’s Abandoned Iron Mine Complex.
- Ma Wan Abandoned Town, Part 1.
- Ma Wan Abandoned Town, Part 2.
- MTR Tunnels Under Construction.
- Shing Mun Redoubt, HK’s Secret WWII Tunnels.
- The Creepy Abandoned Holiday Resort of Broken Dreams, Part 1.
- The Creepy Abandoned Holiday Resort of Broken Dreams, Part 2.
- The Half-Submerged Cargo Ship Currently Abandoned off Cheung Chau.
- So Lo Pun: HK’s Ancient ‘Haunted’ Abandoned Village.
- Tung Ping Chau, Part 1: Sunrise on Hong Kong’s Furthest Flung & Wildest Island.
- Tung Ping Chau, Part 2: The Abandoned Hamlets of Hong Kong’s ‘Jumanji Island’.
- Tung Ping Chau, Part 3: The Abandoned Military Base on HK’s Wild Outpost.
- Tung Ping Chau, Part 4: Video discussing HK’s Abandoned, Wild Island Outpost.
- Wanchai’s Abandoned Police Station.
- Yung Shue Au & Sam A Tsuen Ghost Villages.
- Asians Taking Pictures of Their Food.
- Best of ‘Hong Kong Memes’.
- East vs West Cultural Differences.
- Euphoric English Advert for HK’s Noah’s Ark.
- Guide to Hong Kong’s Beaches.
- Gweilo Moments Song by RTHK’s Steve James.
- How to Use Social Networking in HK.
- Letter to American Express.
- Letter to Ocean Park.
- Keeping it Classy on the Hong Kong MTR.
- Kill It With Fire: HK’s Top 5 Most Dreadful Creepy Crawlies.
- Shit Jackie Chan Says.
- Taiwan vs. Hong Kong – in Cartoons.
- The Official Hong Kong Hiking Drinking Game.
- The People’s Map of Hong Kong.
- Top Ten Weirdest Hong Kong Laws.
- To view all of the ‘Sub-Standard’ satirical stories, click here.
- To view ‘WTF Licence Plates of the Rich & Shameless’, click here.
To view all content and entries posted on the blog, click here. Some other highlights include…
- A Brief History of HK’s Racist Toothpaste.
- Behold: Epic Hong Kong Piano Boy.
- Burgernomics & Hong Kong’s Love Affair with McDonald’s.
- Celebrity ‘Tiger Tutors’ Documentary.
- Chinese New Year in HK by Interactive Google Street View.
- Future Maps of the MTR.
- Google Auto-Complete: What the Internet Thinks About Hong Kong.
- HK’s Most Quaint & Delightful Public Service Ads from the 80s.
- Hollywood Destroys the Bank of China Building.
- Hong Kong 2013 vs. Fritz Lang’s 1927 Masterpiece ‘Metropolis’.
- Hong Kong’s Weirdest Public Service Ads.
- Infographics Charting HK’s Global Rankings.
- Literal Translations of Hong Kong’s MTR Stations.
- Louis Vuitton’s Pretentious Corporate Claptrap.
- Map of Hong Kong Island’s New Hos.
- Multi-cultural Map of Hong Kong.
- Shots from HK’s Summer 2013.
- The Ancient Super Volcano Beneath Victoria Harbour.
- The English Meaning of MTR Station Names.
- The Portland Street ‘Ethnic Hierarchy’.
- The Weird World of HK Milk Advertising.
A beady eye on cultural events across the territory…
- Hong Kong’s First Soapbox Race.
- Hong Kong’s Mid-Autumn Festivities 2013.
- Hong Kong in Miniature.
- Hong Kong SantaCon 2012.
- King Kong in Hong Kong.
- Literary Death Match Storytelling Smackdown.
- Pet Show 2014 Photos.
- Rave in a Cave Secret Bunker Party.
- Secret Walls’ Hong Kong – The 1-on-1 Street Art Battle.
- Sexpo 2013: Photos from HK’s First ‘Asia Adult Expo’ [NSFW].
- The Sum of All Evil: Shock Value or Art?
- Tour of the Famous Greenpeace Ship, Rainbow Warrior III.
- Tsim Sha Tsui in LEGO.
- Yarn Bomber of Hong Kong.
- To view all past events featured on Hong Wrong, click here.
- To view all past HK’s Anthropology Society events, click here.
- To view all arts events, click here.
- To view all music events, click here.
Blog posts celebrating and critiquing development in the City of Lights…
- A Luxury Treehouse for Hong Kong.
- A Peek Inside the New LEGCO Building.
- Awesome 3D Maps of the Hong Kong Overground.
- Construct Your Own Paper ‘Pop-Up’ Hong Kong.
- Cool (and accurate!) 3D ‘Sim-City’-Style Map of Hong Kong.
- Cool Photos of Hong Kong in Miniature.
- Diagrams of Hong Kong’s Skyscrapers in Height Order.
- Edwin Lee’s Hong Kong Timelapse.
- Evolution of the Hong Kong Skyline – a Visual History.
- Future Maps of the MTR.
- Hong Kong 2013 vs. Fritz Lang’s 1927 Masterpiece ‘Metropolis’.
- How Hong Kong Was Made: Iconic Buildings Under Construction.
- How to Tell the Time from the HK Skyline.
- If Everyone Lived at the Same Density as Hong Kongers.
- Kowloon Walled City Recreated in Japan: Pictures.
- Kowloon Walled City 15-min Documentary & Book.
- Michael Wolf’s ‘Architecture of Density’.
- Michael Wolf’s Hong Kong Cornerhouses.
- Preview of HK Kowloon XRL Station.
- Six Spectacular Hong Kong Time Lapse Videos.
- The Birth of the MTR (Documentary).
- The Tiny HK Apartment With 24 Rooms in 1.
- When the MTR Was New.
Click here for links to all of Hong Wrong’s art fair coverage. Full highlights of the local art/culture scene listed below…
- Adrian Wong’s ‘Wun Dun’ Launch.
- Affordable Art Fair 2013.
- Ai Weiwei’s New ‘Baby Milk’ Sculpture, 2013.
- Akin Jeje’s Hong Kong Political Poetry.
- American Graffiti Artist SEEN in Hong Kong.
- Art Basel 2013: Part 1 of 2 and Part 2 of 2.
- Art HK 2012 Highlights: Hall 1 and Hall 3.
- Art HK 2012 Moving Installations.
- Art Inspired by Kowloon Walled City.
- Asia Contemporary Art Show 2013.
- Asia Hotel Art Fair 2013.
- Chai Wan Mei 2012: Local Art Studios on an Old Industrial Estate.
- Clockenflap 2012. See also: Complete Clockenflap 2012 Guide.
- Clockenflap 2013. See also: Complete Clockenflap 2013 Guide.
- Comfort Women Exhibition, 2012.
- Cyrcle Abseil down Skyscrapper to Create Huge Mural in Sai Wan.
- Detour Festival 2012.
- Fine Art Asia 2012.
- Fotanian Open Studios 2013.
- Free Space Festival 2012.
- Free Space Festival 2013.
- Full Lowdown & Map for Art Week 2013.
- Giant Dog Shit is Re-dedicated to Politician Chan Kam-Lam.
- Gigantic Yellow Rubber Bath Toy Visiting Harbour.
- HK Inspired Art Projects.
- HK’s First Tattoo Convention: In Pictures.
- HK’s Got Talent! Paul Lung’s Amazingly Realistic Pencil Drawings.
- Hong Kong Contemporary 2013.
- Hong Kong Eye 2013.
- Inflation Festival 2013 at West Kowloon.
- Julianne Yang’s Citylines – Sketches of Unseen Strangers in HK.
- King Kong in Hong Kong.
- Legography: Ric Tse’s Lego Hong Kong Scenes.
- Microwave Festival 2012.
- Online Exhibition & Documentary Celebrate HK’s Neon Signs.
- Refugee Advice Centre’s 2013 Human Rights Art Prize Auction.
- Rodentia in Absentia by Adrian Wong.
- Shots from HK’s Biggest Ever Street Art Exhibition in Tai Koo, 2013.
- Spoon Art Fair 2012.
- The HK Political Art of Winnie Davies.
- The Sum of All Evil: Shock Value or Art?.
- Very HK Festival 2013.
- Videotage ‘Wikitopia’ 2012 at Microwave Festival Annex.
- Yarn Bomber of Hong Kong.
Hong Kong’s LGBT community…
- Full Lowdown: Thousands of Bigoted Christian Homophobes Gather for Demo.
- HSBC Lit in LGBT Rainbow Colours Tonight.
- Judges Approve Transsexual Marriage as LGBT Event Planned for Weekend.
- LGBT Anti-Discrimination Rally, 2012.
- No Gays! Says HK’s International Christian School (And It’s Legal!).
- Shots from HK’s Gay Pride Parade, 2012.
- Shots from HK’s Gay Pride Parade, 2013.
Hong Kong’s Hall of Fame & Shame…
- Hero: Benson Tsang & Timothy Lam Kwok-Cheung: Homeless Reach-out.
- Hero: Chan Chung-Lam: HK’s Most Honest Man.
- Hero: Michael Vidler: Fighting for Equality.
- Villain: Chan Kam-Lam: Curbing Creative Expression.
- Villain: Elizabeth Quat: The Politician With 3 “Fake” Degrees.
- Villain: Hong Kong’s Luxury Malls: IFC, Hysan & Elements Mall.
- Villain: HSBC: HK’s Most Clueless Bank.
- Villain: John Nelson: Hong Kong International School’s Homophobia.
- Villain: Kevin Zervos: Victim Blamer.
- Villain: Lai Tung-Kwok: Victim Blamer.
- Villain: Lam Yi Lai: Called on Hong Kongers to Sack their Helpers.
- Villain: Red Bull: Pillow Fight Gatecrashers.
Blog posts charting Hong Kong’s colourful past…
- 1000+ ‘Before and After’ Photos of Old & New Hong Kong.
- An Elephant in Kowloon: Photos from Lai Chi Kok Amusement Park.
- Bustling Hong Kong of 1947: Historical Photos from Mark Kauffman.
- Colourised & Restored Photos of Hong Kong 150 Years Ago.
- Cool Vintage Hong Kong Tourism Posters.
- Execution of Namoa Pirates in Kowloon, 1891.
- Hedda Morrison’s Hong Kong: Photos from 1942, Beautifully Restored.
- HK’s Boom Years: The Best of Fan Ho.
- Hong Kong’s Most Offensive Place Names.
- How Hong Kong Was Made: Iconic Buildings Under Construction.
- Mainland Refugees Fleeing Famine Rejected by HK.
- Margaret Thatcher in Hong Kong.
- More Vintage Photos of Old Hong Kong.
- Newly Restored Old Hong Kong Newsreels: Part 1, Refugees.
- Newly Restored Old Hong Kong Newsreels: Part 2.
- Newly Unearthed Photos of 1950s Hong Kong.
- Pictures of Hong Kong in 1972.
- Rare Shots from Inside the Old Kowloon Walled City.
- Shing Mun Redoubt, HK’s Secret WWII Tunnels.
- Street Scenes in Dreamy Colour 1954-2004.
- The ‘Great Chinese Takeaway’ – the 1997 Handover.
- The 1958 Hong Kong Cha Cha Championship Winner (Bruce Lee).
- The 1967 Hong Kong Riots.
- The Bombing of Hong Kong by the U.S. 14th Air Force.
- The Day a Cargo Ship Washed up on Cheung Chau Beach.
- The Hakka Walled Village of Tsang Tai Uk, Sha Tin.
- The Iconic ‘Two Girls’ Kwong Sang Hong Cosmetics Brand.
- The Luxury British Liner at the Bottom of Victoria Harbour.
- Unseen Royal Geographic Photos.
- When the MTR Was New.
Pictorial histories of local landmarks and events…
- A Brief Visual History: HK Police Vehicles & Uniforms.
- A Brief Visual History: HK’s Old Airport, Kai Tak.
- A Brief Visual History: Kowloon Walled City.
- A Brief Visual History: The Evolution of the Hong Kong Skyline.
- A Brief Visual History: The Peak Tram.
- A Brief Visual History: The Peninsula Hotel.
- A Brief Visual History: Tsim Sha Tsui Clock Tower.
- A Brief Visual History: Yau Ma Tei Theatre.
- Amnesty International Condemns HK Helper ‘Slavery’.
- Another Domestic Maid Tortured by HK Employer Flees; Hospitalised.
- Domestic Maids Plant Toy Grenades for Art… But Were the Curators Ethical?
- Dreamseekers: Photographer Reveals Maid’s Journeys from Indonesia to HK.
- Employer Groups Protest Against Improved Rights for Domestic Workers.
- Grainne Quinlan’s Stunning Portraits of HK’s Helper Community.
- HK Maid Community Gather for Global Dance-Off.
- Indonesian Maids Rally in Support of Abused Domestic Helper.
- Now Gov’t Rules Make it Near-Impossible for Domestic Maids to Quit or Escape Abuse.
- Over 5000 Demand ‘Justice for Erwiana’ Today.
- Photo Project: ‘Why Do You Do What You Do’.
- Police & Indonesian Consulate Detain Erwiana Upon Return to HK.
- Tortured Helper Suspect in Court Today as Gov’t Refuses to Alter Rules.
- Interview with Hong Kong’s Kim Jong-Un Impersonator.
- Interview with Hong Kong’s Welsh Male Voice Choir.
- Interview with the Only Resident of Kuk Po Ghost Village.
Click here for a full list of useful links for expats. Other tips and lifehacks for foreigners residing in HK…
- Accessing iPlayer from Abroad.
- Cheapest Books Delivered to HK.
- Cheapest Mobiles: Top 4 Places.
- Cheapest Way to Transfer Money Home.
- China Visa – How to Apply.
- Comprehensive Map of HK Markets & Hidden Malls.
- Escaping HSBC: HK’s Alternative & Least Worst Banking Options.
- Flat-Hunting Guide and Links.
- Flight Tips and Links.
- How to Bypass the South China Morning Post Paywall.
- How to Stop Junk/Spam Calls in Hong Kong.
- Local Job Hunting Links.
- Navigating HSBC’s New ATM Card Farce. See also: Loyal HSBC Customers Who Remained With Bank Screwed Again.
- Teaching Work in Hong Kong.
A close eye on HK’s burgeoning music scene…
- ‘Hong Kong Kids’ Music Video.
- 9 Maps Album Launch.
- Ambient Monolake Album Mixes Sounds of the MTR.
- City Lines: 9 Maps, Cleen and Louise Joachimowski Play the Fringe.
- Clockenflap 2012. See also: Complete Clockenflap 2012 Guide.
- Clockenflap 2013.
- David Rovics Plays For One Night Only in HK.
- Expat Kid Rapper Returns With New Video: Cool or Cringe?
- Free Space Festival 2012.
- Guitar Duo Rodrigo & Gabriela: Pics + Video.
- Happy: Hong Kong’s Own Version of the Pharrell Video.
- Hidden Agenda Raided Again Over the Weekend.
- Hong Kong Ephemeral (Kowloon Hong Kong by The Reynettes.
- Hong Kong Food Music Video.
- HK Fan Zone: Mini-Music Festival in Central This Week.
- The Psy Gangnam Tribute: ‘Hong Kong Style’.
- Times Square Musical Flashmob by HK’s Top Indie Bands.
Hong Wrong is to blame for the city’s annual Pillow Fight Day every April…
- 2011 Pillow Fight Day Photos, Videos & Coverage.
- 2012 Pillow Fight Day Photos and Coverage. See also: Compilation video.
- 2013 Pillow Fight Day. See also: Press coverage, compilation video, photos.
- 2014 Pillow Fight Day. See also: The Aftermath.
Click here for a collection of Hong Kong desktop wallpapers. You may also enjoy…
- A Hong Kong Bug’s Life: Barry Jacques’s HK Insect Safari.
- Aerial Shots of HK’s Coffin Homes, by Ko Chung Ming.
- An American Warship in Hong Kong.
- Beautifully Animated Hong Kong Cinemagraphs.
- Before and After Photos of Old & New Hong Kong.
- Bustling Hong Kong of 1947: Historical Photos from Mark Kauffman.
- Cages, Hookers, Tattoos: HK’s Grim Underbelly.
- Colourful HK: More Amazing Shots by Romain Jacquet-Lagreze.
- Cool Photos of Hong Kong in Miniature.
- Domestic Helpers: Why Do You Do What You Do?
- Dreamseekers: Photographer Reveals Helper’s Journeys from Indonesia to HK.
- Dreamy Infra-red Shots of Hong Kong.
- Elite: Michael Chan’s Commentary on Education & Poverty.
- Fan Ho, Part I: HK’s Boom Years.
- Fan Ho, Part II: Street Scenes in Dreamy Colour 1954-2004.
- Food Choices on the Hong Kong Poverty Line.
- Glitch the Matrix: Old & New Hong Kong Blended Together.
- Grainne Quinlan’s ‘Jimmy Shoe’ Lamma Island Project.
- Grainne Quinlan’s Stunning Portraits of HK’s Helper Community.
- Grit, Grime and Crime: KC Kwan’s Hong Kong.
- HangGraffiti’s Unexpected Hong Kong.
- Harold de Puymorin’s Surreal HK ‘Inception’ Series.
- HK’s ‘Gloomy Summer’ by Akif Hakan Celebi.
- Hedda Morrison’s Hong Kong: Photos from 1942, Beautifully Restored
- Home Street Home: Homelessness in HK by Lei Jih-sheng.
- Hong Kong Above the Clouds.
- Hong Kong in the Rain By Christophe Jacrot.
- Hong Kong Through a Crystal Ball.
- Hong Kong Through the Eyes of NatGeo’s Mark Leong.
- Hong Kong’s Elderly Tai Chi Enthusiasts.
- Hong Kong’s Invisible Caged Poor: Mini Sculptures by Kwong Chi Kit.
- Honkey Kong: HK Photographed as a 2-D Platform Game.
- Igor Sinitsin’s Surreal Take on High Density Hong Kong.
- Jeff Tam’s HDR & Street Photography.
- Joel Odesser’s Hong Kong: ‘Behind the Scenes’.
- Kris Vervaeke’s Supernatural Shots of HK’s Fortune Tellers.
- ‘Legography’: Ric Tse’s Lego Hong Kong Scenes.
- Life in the Gutter of Asia’s World City, by Charlie Eady.
- Little Planet Hong Kong: A New Perspective.
- Lonely Metropolis: More Colourful Shots by Brian Yen.
- Michael Wolf’s ‘Architecture of Density’.
- Michael Wolf’s ‘Window Watching’ Invasive or Curious?
- Michael Wolf’s 100 Photos of 100 Rooms of 100sq ft.
- Michael Wolf’s Hong Kong Cornerhouses.
- Neon Pink and Blue – Thomas Birke’s HK Shots.
- One Year in Hong Kong by Brian Yen.
- Photographs of Hong Kong’s Rooftop Slums.
- Pictures of Hong Kong in 1972.
- Poverty & Property: The Claustrophobic Reality of HK Shoeboxes.
- Poverty, Age & Loneliness in HK: by Brian Yen.
- Rare Shots from Inside the Old Kowloon Walled City.
- Russians Climb Hong Kong’s Skyscrapers. See also: More Shots from The Russian Climbers In HK.
- Sean Creamer’s Hong Kong.
- Spooky MTR Levitation Photography.
- Superheroes Working in Hong Kong.
- The Part of Hong Kong Foreigners Never See, by Joanathan Van Smit’.
- The Peak Tram in 1908 & More Unseen Vintage Photos.
- Tom Carter’s China: Exclusive Shots of HK & Macau.
- Vertical Horizon: Amazing Photos HK Skyscrapers.
- Vintage Photos of Old Hong Kong.
- World Press Photo 2012 at the HK Design Institute.
Places to see off-the-beaten-track and attractions to visit across the city…
- Beautiful Bride’s Pool Waterfalls.
- Causeway Bay’s Cat Cafe.
- Chi Lin Nunnery & Nan Lian Gardens.
- Escape Hong Kong at ‘Freeing HK’, Mongkok.
- Exploring the Abandoned ‘Haunted’ TV Studios in Ho Chung.
- Fung Hang Abandoned Village.
- HK’s Best Beach, Tai Long Wan (Big Wave Bay), Sai Kung.
- HK’s Wild South West: Shek Pik to Tai O.
- Hong Kong’s Abandoned ‘Ghost Island’, Yim Tin Tsai.
- How to See Fireflies in Hong Kong.
- Kuk Po Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.
- Lai Chi Wo: The Semi-Abandoned Hakka Walled Village in Plover Cove.
- Luk Keng Chan Uk Semi-Abandoned Village.
- Lion Rock & Beacon Hill.
- Ma Wan Abandoned Town Part 1, Part 2.
- Mongkok’s Japanese Maid Cafe.
- Motocross Dirt Biking in Sheung Shui.
- Official Map of Hong Kong Island’s New Hos.
- Peng Chau: HK’s Least Loved Island?
- Shing Mun Redoubt, HK’s Secret WWII Tunnels.
- So Lo Pun: HK’s Ancient ‘Haunted’ Abandoned Village.
- Sunrise on Hong Kong’s Farthest Flung & Wildest Island.
- Tai She Wan’s Abandoned Holiday Resort Part 1, Part 2.
- Tap Mun (Grass Island).
- The Cattle Depot Artist Village.
- The Hakka Walled Village of Tsang Tai Uk, Sha Tin.
- Tung Ping Chau Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.
- Yung Shue Au & Sam A Tsuen Ghost Villages.
The front lines: Political actions in which Hong Wrong was directly involved…
- 24-hr Anonymous Guerrilla Art Installation, 2010.
- Anniversary of the Tibetan Occupation, 2009.
- Anniversary of the Tibetan Occupation, 2010.
- Annual Democracy Rally, 2009. See also: 2008.
- Buy Nothing Day, 2008.
- China Human Rights Protest, 2008.
- Depraved HK Newspaper Needn’t Fear HK’s Media Watchdogs, 2012. See also: Media Ethics Complaint Against Oriental Daily Upheld.
- Edward Snowden Seeks Refuge in HK, 2013. More on the Hong Wrong-organised ‘Support Snowden’ rally: Part I: Preparations, Part II: Global media coverage, Part III: Photos, Part IV: Videos.
- Gaza Rally 2012. See also: Gaza Rally, 2009 and Gaza Flotilla Rally, 2010.
- Giant Dog Shit is Re-dedicated to Politician Chan Kam-Lam, 2013.
- HK’s Luxury Malls Mistreating Their Staff? Join the Mini-Campaign.
- HK-GZ High Speed Rail Link Protests, 2010.
- Lantau Incinerator Protest, 2012.
- LGBT Anti-Discrimination Rally, 2012. See also: Gay Pride Parade, 2012.
- Maxim Magazine ‘International Action’ Feature, 2006.
- Minimum Wage Protest, 2006.
- National Education ‘Scholarism’ Protests, 2012.
- Occupy Hong Kong, 2011. See also: Occupy Hong Kong a Bit Embarrassing, Asked to Leave, Occupy HK Refuse to Speak to Media and Occupy Hong Kong Evicted (pictures).
- Olympic Torch Relay, 2008 See also: Olympic Countdown and Civil Liberties Legal Case, 2008.
- Slutwalk Protests Victim Blaming & Rape Myths, 2013.
- Tiananmen Massacre ‘6-4’ Vigil 2013. See also: Preview of 2013, 2012, 2009 and 2008.
- Why I Attempted to Arrest Tony Blair, 2012. See also: £2420 ‘Arrest Blair’ Bounty Awarded.
- Worker’s Rights in Education, 2006.
Reinterpreting major local news events in English for foreign readers and expats…
- Full Lowdown: 2 New Reports Slam Hong Kong Media Self-Censorship.
- Full Lowdown: 2012 Election Aftermath. Protests Continue, Albert Ho Quits & Racist Candidate Loses.
- Full Lowdown: Battle of the Bullshit – Falun Gong Edition.
- Full Lowdown: HK Lamma Ferry Disaster 2012.
- Full Lowdown: HK Political Shit-storm Ahead of July 1st, 2012. See also: Full Lowdown of Handover Weekend 2012: Protest Minimised, Reporter Removed.
- Full Lowdown: HK’s 2012 National Education Protests. See also: Full Lowdown: Small Victory for Scholarism as 170,000+ Protest National Education.
- Full Lowdown: HK’s Tiananmen Vigil & Protests 2012.
- Full Lowdown: July 1st Pro-Democracy March, 2013. See also: The coolest, most inspiring shots from the 2013 July 1st Rally.
- Full Lowdown: Time Hong Kong Moved on from the Manila Bus Crisis.
- Full Lowdown: Thousands of Bigoted Christian Homophobes Gather for Demo.
- Full Lowdown: US Whistleblower Edward Snowden Seeks Refuge in Free Speech HK.
Archive of news and politics stories…
- 500th Blog Post – An Appeal for The Philippines. See also: Blog Readers Raise $8000.
- A Tour of the Famous Greenpeace Ship, Rainbow Warrior III.
- A Very Hong Wrong 2013: Year in Review.
- Airpocalypse: Hong Kong Edition.
- An American Warship in Hong Kong.
- Average Salaries of Those Who Serve Us.
- Bumbling Boris Johnson Surveying Hong Kong Sparks Photoshop Battle.
- Child Abduction Rumours Are Textbook Scarelore.
- Citizens Left to Clean Beaches Still Brimming with Plastic Pellets.
- Container Ship Runs Aground in Pokfulam.
- CY Leung Humiliated at Ceremony Ahead of July 1st March.
- Documentary Follows Scholarism’s Joshua Wong.
- Election 2012 as Popvote.hk is Hacked.
- Elizabeth Quat: The Hong Kong Politician With 3 “Fake” Degrees.
- Fake Monks Targeting Westerners on the Rise.
- Food Choices on the Hong Kong Poverty Line.
- Henry Tang’s Daughter’s Artwork.
- Hidden Agenda Raided Again Over the Weekend.
- HK’s ‘Last Governor’ Mobbed as ‘Fans’ Blare British National Anthem.
- Hong Kong 3rd Best for Human Freedom? The Truth About ‘That Survey’.
- Hong Kong Goes Completely Insane For Big Yellow Duck’s Arrival.
- Hong Kong is World’s Most Racist State. See also: Hong Kong NOT World’s Most Racist State After All.
- Hong Kong Makes Tacocopter Internet Meme a Reality.
- Hong Kong Mildly Inconvenienced as Typhoon Usagi Passes Through.
- Hong Kong’s Feral Monkey Problem.
- Hong Kong’s Invisible Caged Poor: Mini Sculptures by Kwong Chi Kit.
- Hong Kong’s Rooftop Slums.
- Hong Kong’s Stormageddon.
- Hong Kong’s Shame – More Squalid Slums Discovered in the New Territories.
- How Hong Kong Would Look With The All Lights Out.
- How Mitt Romney Raised $Millions in HK & Macau.
- Illegal Monkey Mountain Feeding Continues – Photos.
- Indonesian Maids Rally in Support of Abused Domestic Helper.
- Inside a Bitcoin Mining Operation in Hong Kong – Photos.
- International No Pants Subway Day 2013. See also: No Pants Day 2014 Photos.
- Judges Approve Transsexual Marriage as LGBT Event Planned for Weekend.
- Kevin Zervos Makes Victim Blaming Comments.
- Kim Jong-Un Hired to Protest Kim Jon-Un in Wanchai.
- Kim Jong-Un Impersonator Wows Hong Kongers.
- Lantau Incinerator a Load of Old Rubbish.
- Left 21 Anti-Poverty Halloween Rally, 2013.
- Lufsig-Mania Continues as HK Takes to Photoshop and the Shops.
- Mainland Tourists Clear HK Banks & Jewellers of Bling.
- Manila Bus Crisis – Mourning Sickness.
- Memo an Affront to HK’s Autonomy as New HK Ai Wei Wei Piece Revealed.
- More Clueless Sexual Assault Comments, Now From HK’s Chief Prosecutor.
- New HK PSA: Shut Up and Love China.
- Nick Cage’s Macau Microphone Menagerie Sparks Photoshop Battle.
- No Gays! Says HK’s International Christian School (And It’s Legal!).
- No Sex Please, We’re Hong Kongers.
- Offensive or Hilarious? Hong Kong’s Most Confusing Anti-Mainlander Protest.
- Paul Mooney’s SCMP Whistle-blower Article.
- Photographer Michael Wolf May Be Legal Trouble Over ‘Window Watching’.
- Poverty & Property: The Claustrophobic Reality of HK Shoeboxes.
- Pro-Beijing DAB Party Campaigning Against Club Triple X.
- Professional’ Smuggling Tunnel Linking HK to China Discovered.
- Profit, Protection & Public Interest: Why is SCMP ‘Drip-feeding’ Snowden Revelations?
- Revealed: CY Leung Met Tony Blair in Secretive June Meeting
- Sai Kung Country Park Trashed as ‘HK Clean Up’ Kicks off.
- Salaries of Those Who Serve Us.
- Security Chief Tells Women: ‘Reduce Drinking’ to Get Raped Less.
- Serious Crime Unit Arrests Graffiti Artist as US Criticises HK Human Rights.
- Shark Spotted in Sai Kung.
- South China Morning Post Buys Out HK Magazine.
- Squalor in Fanling: Slum Dwellings Return to Hong Kong (Photos).
- Tasteless Campaign from HK’s Society for Abandoned Animals.
- Teacup Storm Over HK Magazine Crap Rape Joke.
- Tens of Thousands Surround Gov’t HQ Protesting Rejected HKTV Bid.
- The HK Standard: Ignorant at Best, Racist at Worst.
- The KONY 2012 HK ‘Night Sweep’.
- The McQueue of Shame?
- They Can’t Kill Us All: Protesters Unite for Press Freedom.
- Time Out/Hemlock Tycoons Feature.
- Two HK School Children Demand GovHK Burn Ivory Stockpile.
- Viral Colonial Flag Olympic Hoax as Hong Kong Chillier Than Sochi.
- Weird Propaganda Sign on Hong Kong Soil.
- Why Are Hong Kongers are Going Crazy for ‘Lufsig’ the Toy Wolf?
- Why Does Jackie Chan Hate Hong Kong?
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Posts related to Hong Kong’s hidden poor; a city that is home to the widest poverty gap in the developed world…
- Cages, Hookers, Tattoos – HK’s Grim Underbelly.
- Can an Elevator Be Racist?
- Elite: Michael Chan’s Commentary on Education & Poverty.
- Food Choices on the Hong Kong Poverty Line.
- Home Street Home: Homelessness in HK by Lei Jih-sheng.
- Hong Kong Coffin Homes by Ko Chung Ming.
- Hong Kong’s Invisible Caged Poor: Mini Sculptures by Kwong Chi Kit.
- Hong Kong’s Rooftop Slums.
- Hong Kong’s Shame – More Squalid Slums Discovered in the New Territories.
- Life in the Gutter of Asia’s World City, by Charlie Eady.
- Lonely Metropolis: More Colourful Shots by Brian Yen.
- Michael Wolf’s ‘Architecture of Density‘. See also 100×100.
- Political Art of Winnie Davies.
- Poverty, Age & Loneliness in HK, by Brian Yen.
- Sub-divided Flats – Photography by Benny Lam.
- The Heart-Warming Kindness of Hong Kong’s Heroes.
- The Part of Hong Kong Foreigners Never See, by Joanathan Van Smit’.
Breaking news bullshit from the Hong Wrong Sub-Standard (satire)…
- China Apologises Unreservedly to Tiananmen Victims; Offers Compensation.
- Colgate to Relaunch Racist Toothpaste ‘Darkie’.
- CY Launches Anti-Corruption Agency to Monitor Anti-Corruption Agency.
- Eddie Snowden ‘Dreadful to Live With’ says Relieved Safehouse Flatmate.
- Giant Duck Contracts Lung Cancer in Harbour; has Existential Crisis.
- HK Gov’t to Adapt Tsim Sha Tsui to Mainland Tourist Influx.
- Hong Kong Announces Bid for 2022 Winter Olympics Amidst Cold Snap.
- New Harbour Crossing as Island & Kowloon To Be Linked by Cable Car.
- Philippines Demands Formal Apology and Compensation from Beijing.
- Robotic CY Leung Recharge Pod Sessions to Increase.
- The Standard vs. The Sub-Standard: Battle of the Logos.
- Update: Giant Duck Finally Succumbs to Lung Cancer.
External video links and original clips relating to HK…
- 20-minutes ‘Sleeping Dogs’ Police Chase Ends in Arrest.
- Aerial Drone Camera Montages of Hong Kong.
- Artist’s Virtual Pop-Up Tour of HK.
- Euphoric English Advert for HK’s Noah’s Ark.
- Every Day is Black Friday in Hong Kong.
- Extreme Urban Sports Videos in HK.
- Happy: Hong Kong’s Own Version of the Pharrell Video.
- HK International Pillow Fight Day Compilation 2011.
- HK International Pillow Fight Day Compilation 2012.
- HK International Pillow Fight Day Compilation 2013.
- HK’s Most Quaint & Delightful Public Service Ads from the 80s.
- Hollywood Destroys the Bank of China Building.
- Hong Kong Ephemeral (Kowloon Hong Kong by The Reynettes.
- Hong Kong Food Music Video.
- Hong Kong Hyperlapse 2013.
- Hong Kong SantaCon 2012.
- Hong Kong’s Weirdest Public Service Ads.
- Interview with the Only Resident of Kuk Po Ghost Village.
- Is this Hong Kong? The Naturescape Beyond the Metropolis.
- Life of a Hong Kong Tai Tai.
- Louis Vuitton’s Pretentious Corporate Claptrap.
- Maid Wars: The Plight of HK’s Domestic Workers.
- National Geographic’s 1978 HK Family Profile.
- No Room at the Cemetery? Turn Loved Ones Into Jewellery!
- Press Video Coverage of HK’s Third Pillow Fight Day.
- Six Spectacular Hong Kong Time Lapse Videos.
- Snowden Hong Kong: The Movie.
- The Birth of the MTR (Documentary).
- The Ecology & Politics of Tung Ping Chau.
- The Plight of Tin Shui Wai’s Hawkers in the ‘City of Despair’.
- The Prostitute-Busting Policewomen of 1960s Hong Kong.
- The Tiny HK Apartment With 24 Rooms in 1.
- Time-Lapse of Hong Kong by Edwin Lee.
- Video Goes Viral As Woman Arrested for Slapping Kneeling Boyfriend. See also: Slapping Video: The Sequel
- Why Is Hong Kong Not a Country? A 5-Minute Dummy’s Guide