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- Miniature fire trucks and ambulances
- Inspecting the Tsing Ma Bridge
- One way tolls on the road to Lantau Island
- Revisited: rail accidents in Hong Kong
- ‘Ghost’ island off the Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge
- Crossing the border on the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge
- Australia and the Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests
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Monthly Archives: August 2012
Skyscrapers on a stick
The shores of Hong Kong Island are lined with massive skyscrapers, and one that stands apart from the others due to the unusual design is the ‘Chinese People’s Liberation Army Forces Hong Kong Building’. So is it a one off?