'We're not going anywhere'

Despite offers of compensation and a new eviction deadline the defiant owners of the reputed "nail-house" in Chongqing still refuse to budge.

On Friday, the couple, Yang Wu and Wu Ping had ignored the final March 29 deadline, and their house remains the only one standing in a massive 10-metre-deep construction pit.

For more than two years, Yang, 51, and Wu, 49, have resisted attempts by real estate developers to take control of their patch, even though all 280 of their neighbors have moved out.