Hong Kong's Troubling Shortage of Men

Hong Kong's shortage of men has forced women to turn to desperate measures to find a mate. (bryangeek/Flickr)China’s just-loosened one-child policy has warped the country’s gender ratio over the past 34 years to the extent that by 2020 there may be almost 24 million men unable to find a partner. But in the special administrative region of Hong Kong, a jurisdiction not subject to the mainland’s laws, the landscape is startlingly different.