Between the 1950s and mid-'90s, tens of thousands of immigrants constructed a towering community 12 stories high across a 6.4-acre lot in Hong Kong. It was called the Kowloon Walled City. With a ...

Far & Away,fromNational GeographicandThe Wall Street Journal. Before it was demolished in the mid-90s, Hong Kong’s Kowloon Walled City was the most densely populated place on the planet, with some ...

HONG KONG, June 10, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Known for its maze-like architecture and lawless atmosphere, Kowloon Walled City has long captured the imagination of filmmakers, historians and curious ...

(CNN) — It was the summer of 1989. Hong Kong’s humidity – already oppressive – was intensified in the dark, maze-like alleyways of an unruly enclave known as Kowloon Walled City. Then the most densely ...

At its height circa 1989, Kowloon Walled City was the most densely populated place on Earth. More than 35,000 people lived in ...

Part 1: The “Kowloon Walled City: A Cinematic Journey” Movie Set Exhibition began on May 24th and will run for three years. It was expected that the exhibition would help to promote Hong Kong and ...

Kowloon Walled City was a settlement in Hong Kong under British rule. It was both a hell and a utopia, formed by intertwined streets, aged buildings, dazzling neon lights and dark narrow alleys. In ...

Since its local release in May, Soi Cheang’s action sensation Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In has become Hong Kong’s second-biggest domestic hit ever, earning $13.7 million in a city of just 7.2 ...