How About a Huge Picture of Hong Kong

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Here's an even bigger one.. And when I say "huge", I mean this one is REALLY HUGE.

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The Ingenious China-Hong Kong Flipper Bridge

One of the most vexing aspects of traveling between mainland China and Hong Kong is the car travel: People in the former drive on the right side of the road; people in the latter drive on the left (a vestige of the British empire).

So to quell confusion at the border and, more importantly, to keep cars from smashing into each other, the Dutch firm NL Architects proposed a brilliant, simple solution, the Flipper bridge.

The bridge does exactly what the name suggests: It flips traffic around. The key here is separating the two sides of traffic, using a figure-eight shape. One side of the road dips under the other, funneling cars that were traveling on the left to the right (and vice versa), without forcing them to encounter head-on traffic at an intersection. The bridge makes what should be a disorienting switch exquisitely easy.

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KFC employees caught serving food from trash (Hong Kong)

Cellphone video taken by a deliveryman at the KFC in Yuen Long Plaza in Hong Kong.

The deliveryman told Hong Kong's Next Magazine that in order to get off work on time, staff turn off the ovens, throw away the unsold food, and start cleaning up. During this time if a customer walks in, employees will pick up the food from the trash and serve it to customers. The restaurant's manager apparently More..allows this to save money.

The outrageous behaviour is said to have been the combined result of young workers, low wages, and the shop management's demand to make their branch an 'A grade' one by saving costs.