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Bangkok’s “David Beckham Temple”: one of the world’s weirdest religious buildings

Flair, Shanghai On the 58th floor of Shanghai’s IFC tower, Flair is the rooftop bar of the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Pudong. On warm days the outdoor terrace heaves with guests, tourists and locals admiring a view that takes in the Bund, the Pearl Tower and the surrounding city

San Francisco Chinatown Cramped and colourful, San Francisco’s Chinatown covers 24 square blocks and houses the second biggest Chinese community outside Asia. There are exotic emporia, temples, tea houses, restaurants, Chinese banks, schools, law offices, bookstores, laundries and factories recalling the sweatshops of earlier times.