This incredible city, established in 1898, grew to become home to 35,000 people as more storeys were added to buildings in ...

An American collector is said to have bought the 'unseemly bed' featured in Edwin Drood ... at least — even boasted the original of the opium den described in The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

The four-poster bed in the master bedroom ... and picked old-school furniture because these places used to be opium dens”. Animals carved out of brass and stone, which he selected based on their ...

This two-bedroom Brooklyn apartment is a perfect example of how you ... used to say that she wants to live in an opium den and that he wants to live in a spaceship. “Eventually we settled on what we ...

In all, there are four environments, from the country chic downstairs dining area to the seduction of an opium den. The menus are on pages inside old English books, according to Leach.

One product that the British could access in large quantities was opium grown in territories under their colonial control. The British response to address the trade imbalance was to flood the ...

It's been over 30 years since the world's most densely populated city was demolished. Kowloon Walled City was a large and lawless enclave of 35,000 residents squeezed into a territory of 26,000 ...

PROF. ZHENG YANGWEN:'By the 1820s, opium addiction became visible socially.' Which means opium dens on the street, people dying off, dozing off on the street, it's becoming a social problem.

Only the previous day, I had seen Fortune’s name in Lucy Inglis’s fascinating book Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium. I checked back and there was just this one reference to “the ...

Are you looking to get the most out of your bedroom space? These gadgets will help turn your bedroom into the zen den you ...

After topping the box office with its sequel Den of Thieves 2: Pantera, the Den of Thieves series will now continue to a third chapter. Via Variety, we’ve learned that a Den of Thieves 3 movie ...

In the murky depths of the walled city, triad gangs such as 14K and Sun Yee dominated the criminal underworld, gaining power over brothels, gaming parlours and opium dens in the complex.