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Chungking Mansions

Firefighters rescue residents of New Lucky House on Wednesday. Five people died in the blaze. Photo: Jelly Tse

Safety orders from 2008 not obeyed at Hong Kong building where fire erupted

Buildings Department says fire safety orders issued in 2008, but owners’ corporation had still not met requirements.

11 Apr 2024 - 6:35PMvideocam

How Wong Kar-wai’s Chungking Express made Faye Wong a movie star

30 Apr 2023 - 4:15AMvideocam

14-year-old boy found dead in man’s room in Hong Kong’s Chungking Mansions

19 Dec 2022 - 12:01AM

Did Anthony Bourdain’s life begin to unravel in Hong Kong?

Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography reveals how the Hong Kong episode of his travel series Parts Unknown, directed by girlfriend Asia Argento, created deep rifts within the crew.

18 Nov 2021 - 6:24PM

Anthony Bourdain and Asia Argento at the 2017 Creative Arts Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on September 9, 2017. A new audiobook reveals how the Hong Kong episode of Bourdain’s travel series Parts Unknown, which Argento directed, could have been the point where his life began to unravel. Photo: FilmMagic

An insider’s guide to some of the best meals in Chungking Mansions

From a rice dish that West Africans fight over to his go-to Indian restaurant, banker Innocent Mutanga returns again and again to eat at Chungking Mansions, where he first stayed when he arrived in Hong Kong in 2013.

15 Oct 2021 - 8:20AM

Food tour: Hong Kong's Chungking Mansions

15 Oct 2021 - 7:00AM

Cantopop diva Faye Wong’s 18 best songs

From Cantopop to grunge, Chungking Express to Final Fantasy VIII – these career-defining MVs prove Wong was Hong Kong’s ultimate 90s diva

7 Aug 2020 - 5:04PMvideocam

Letters | George Floyd protests must inspire Hong Kong to tackle its own racism

Hongkongers have shown great community spirit in fighting injustice, but the city has a lingering problem with discrimination against members of ethnic minority communities.

21 Jun 2020 - 11:56AMvideocam

About 20 arrivals at Hong Kong airport sent to hospital with fever

About a dozen incoming travellers declared on their declaration form that they had symptoms, a spokesman for the Department of Health said.

17 Mar 2020 - 9:19AMvideocam

How Hong Kong protests have affected one of the city’s busiest districts

District’s image hurt as unrest takes a toll on tourism and the cultural and retail scenes.

14 Dec 2019 - 7:08PMvideocam

The Avenue of Stars, a major tourist attraction in Tsim Sha Tsui. Photo: Dickson Lee

Singalong to support ethnic minority communities after mosque spraying

Event in Tsim Sha Tsui comes as tensions ease among ethnic minority communities after ‘accidental’ police spraying of Kowloon Mosque on Sunday.

24 Oct 2019 - 9:43AM

Anti-government protesters during a singalong protest in solidarity with the local ethnic minority community at Chungking Mansions, Tsim Sha Tsui. Photo: Dickson Lee

Former Vietnamese refugee returns to give back to city of her childhood

Farah Dang, 38, has been volunteering with an NGO and came back a decade ago after leaving for Britain in 1992. She has never forgotten how others helped her, and has come to terms with her refugee identity.

6 Apr 2019 - 2:44PM

From wayward teenager to Hong Kong’s first ethnic minority social worker

Saved by a social worker as a troubled teenager, Jeffrey Andrews now wants to make a difference for others.

23 Feb 2019 - 3:39PM

Woman found in pool of blood after incident at Chungking Mansions

Female suspect arrested at scene after victim suffers neck and chest wounds.

18 Oct 2018 - 5:17AM

Emergency personnel were sent to Chungking Mansions after the victim called for help. Photo: Handout

Don’t swallow the lies about Chungking Mansions – try the curry

Star of a Wong Kar-wai movie and an icon of urban Hong Kong, Chungking Mansions is too often portrayed as unsafe and a den of vice. Don’t believe a word of it – or you’ll be missing out on some of the city’s best Indian food

27 Jul 2018 - 12:59PMvideocam

Video | Video: freerunners leap across roofs 17 storeys up in Tsim Sha Tsui

Storror, British group whose first videos of Hong Kong freerunning went viral in 2016, release film of members evading security guard as they jump and somersault obstacles and shin along pipes between buildings in Kowloon

2 Feb 2018 - 6:03PM

Chungking Express director joins ranks of Scorsese, Tarantino with film award

Director of films such as Chungking Express and In the Mood for Love becomes first Hong Kong filmmaker to win ‘Nobel Prize for cinema’

3 Jan 2018 - 11:55AM

Dying breed: the last Hong Kong traders in Chungking Mansions

16 Sep 2017 - 4:31PMvideocam

Nelson Tse Shiu-ho has worked full time since he was just 13 years old. Photo: Nora Tam

Gang robs man of HK$400,000 next to Chungking Mansions

28 May 2017 - 9:51PM

Slump shuts shops at Hong Kong’s Chungking Mansions

7 Nov 2016 - 8:02AMvideocam

Filmmaker Christopher Doyle’s guide to Hong Kong’s Chungking Mansions

Doyle, who was cinematographer on Wong Kar-wai’s Chungking Express, looks for the locations in the high-rise where he filmed the award-winning Hong Kong classic and its sequel

13 Sep 2016 - 9:44AM

Hong Kong-based Australian cinematographer Christopher Doyle in Chungking Mansions. Photos: Kylie Knott

Seven injured as solvent falls from height in busy Hong Kong shopping district

Seven pedestrians were slightly injured after being splashed with an unknown solution which fell from a height in a busy shopping district in Hong Kong today, according to police.

1 Oct 2015 - 4:58AM

Police officers at the scene of the incident outside Chungking Mansions in Tsim Sha Tsui. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Welcome to Hong Kong: German visitors left bruised and battered by robbers outside Chungking Mansions

30 Sep 2015 - 5:53PMvideocam

Meet the 75-year-old woman running Hong Kong’s notorious Chungking Mansions

Salina Lam has transformed the Kowloon block once known as a ‘rough, shady place' during her 22 years as owners’ committee chairwoman.

30 Sep 2015 - 5:53PMvideocam

How Hong Kong's iconic Chungking Mansions became what it is today

8 Sep 2016 - 9:14AM

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Video | Hong Kong policeman punched nine times in Chungking Mansions attack caught on CCTV

A vicious attack in which a policeman was punched repeatedly in the face and head was captured by CCTV in Tsim Sha Tsui on Tuesday.

30 Sep 2015 - 5:53PMvideocam

The attack was caught on CCTV. Photo: SCMP Pictures

Update | Nigerian staying at Hong Kong's Chungking Mansions tests negative for Ebola

The deadliest Ebola epidemic in history continued its spread, as a brief scare in Hong Kong highlighted the risk of an outbreak in the city.

30 Sep 2015 - 5:53PMvideocam

Chungking Express: what makes Wong Kar-wai's 1994 film great

Shot over two months with writer-director Wong Kar-wai penning the script as he went along, Chungking Express is one of the most romantic films ever made in Hong Kong - and certainly the coolest.

27 Jan 2022 - 3:09PM

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Chungking Mansions

To Time magazine, it’s ‘Asia’s best example of globalisation in action’; to others it’s a scary den of drug dealers, illegal immigrants and dubious restaurants. Chungking Mansions in Nathan Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, is a warren of shops, cheap guesthouses and places to eat spread across five blocks of 17 storeys each. A popular destination for visitors on a budget, the mansions famously featured in Wong Kar-wai’s 1994 film Chungking Express.

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9 September, 2024