Sino Centre

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Sino Centre (Chinese: 信和中心) is a shopping centre at Nathan Road in Mong Kok, Hong Kong. The shops in the centre mainly sell comics, Japanese magazines, records, sports gears, watches, and other good favoured by youths.

In the early 1990s, the centre was full of shops selling photographs of pop stars. The number of photographs of a pop star sold is the indicator of one's popularity.^{[citation needed]}

In the late 1990s, the shops that sold pirated and pornographic CDs and VCDs prospered wildly until 2004 when major crackdown operations were begun by the police and customs.

Even though of the heavy crackdown of piracy in past years, it has resurfaced recently with stores selling pirated Chinese, Japanese, and Korean TV dramas and anime DVDs. Each set was priced around $100 HKD each. These temporary stores opened at random times and closed down without warning .Buyers from theses stores would have trouble getting an exchange for the often defected DVDs they purchased.