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Chungking Mansions

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.
Garance Marillier has been called the next big thing in French cinema. On her first visit to Hong Kong, she sat down with the Post to talk about inspirations, upcoming projects and trying to “make the world better”. Photo: Jonathan Wong
European cinema

Why this French film star just had to visit Hong Kong’s Chungking Mansions

In town for the Hong Kong French Film Festival, Garance Marillier discusses her ‘must visit’ list and acting with Angelina Jolie in Couture.

My Life

How social worker Jeffrey Andrews went from gangs to grass-roots leadership

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Video | Infamous and misunderstood: Hong Kong’s Chungking Mansions

Architecture and design

How a run-down flat in Hong Kong’s Chungking Mansions became a Diversity Hub

Offering a comfortable space for the marginalised, repurposed flat the Diversity Hub has everything from hot food to language lessons.

Diversity Hub, a multifunctional space in Chungking Mansions in Hong Kong run by Christian Charity, includes glass panels that can be used to create distinct rooms such as a kitchen and exhibition area. Photo: Jocelyn Tam
Hong Kong economy

Hong Kong logs more than 24,000 arrivals on New Year’s Eve

But several mainland visitors tell the Post they will return home after the countdown due to pricey hotels, extended border opening hours.

Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

3 things that helped make 1994’s Chungking Express a classic film

Wong Kar-wai film’s cinematography, soundtrack and use of Hong Kong locations for shooting produced a defining moment in Hong Kong cinema.

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Accidents and personal safety

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.

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

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

Filmed in six weeks, Chungking Express has an improvisatory feel. It features a memorable turn by singer Faye Wong, in her first film, and won Tony Leung Chiu-wai best actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards.

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Crime in Hong Kong

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

Police arrest a 56-year-old tenant on suspicion of child negligence.

Food and Drinks

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.

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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
Ethnic minorities in Hong Kong

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.

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Mutton curry from Sher-E-Punjab. Photo: Xiaomei Chen
Food & Drink

Video | Food tour: Hong Kong's Chungking Mansions

K-pop, Mandopop, other Asian pop

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

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George Floyd protests

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.

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A protester stands in front of Hong Kong’s largest mosque, Kowloon Mosque, and holds a banner to show support for members of ethnic minority communities on October 20, 2019. Photo: Raquel Carvalho
Coronavirus pandemic

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.

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Some travellers at the airport declared that they had symptoms. Photo: Bloomberg
Hong Kong protests

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.

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Hong Kong protests

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.

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City Weekend

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.

Former Vietnamese refugee Farah Dang. Photo: Xiaomei Chen
City Weekend

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.

Crime in Hong Kong

Woman found in pool of blood after incident at Chungking Mansions

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

Food and Drinks

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

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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
Asia travel

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

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
Chinese language cinema

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’

City Weekend

Dying breed: the last Hong Kong traders in Chungking Mansions

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

The attack happened outside Chungking Mansions, Tsim Sha Tsui. Photo: David Wong
Ethnic minorities in Hong Kong

Slump shuts shops at Hong Kong’s Chungking Mansions

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Business has slowed and many shops are vacant at Chungking Mansions. Photo: Xiaomei Chen

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

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.

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