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I was shocked to hear from the news that the Hong Kong Canto pop song “At the foothill of the Lion Mountain” (獅子山下) was named the most well known “national affair song”(國情歌) in a survey among secondary students. How was it possible that the song is about national affair when the song, as every Hong Kong adult knows, is the theme song of a very popular TV series in the 70s about the lives of Hong Kong people? It is a song about Hong Kong, a city, not China, the whole country.

Okay, I feel sorry for those bankers in Hong Kong who worked for Lehman before, but now that they loose their jobs some high end luxury homes will be empty. Grap Your money and head to Hong Kong and grab some nice luxury flats for cheap.

2007 in review - A quick examination of how Hong Kong's air quality has deteriorated since the Hong Kong Observatory started collecting full data in 2000.

On April 23rd Hong Kong’s legislature passed the Mainland Judgements (Reciprocal Enforcement) Bill, which will allow for reciprocal enforcement of judgments of commercial cases in Hong Kong and China, provided that certain requirements are met, which are roughly as follows:

The easiest and fastest way to travel to Shenzhen from Hong Kong is by taking the train operated by Hong Kong MTR.

Hong Kong reminded me much of the west when it came to one important aspect: customer service. After finding service even at higher end Beijing and Shanghai establishments to be disappointing, Hong Kong was a breath of fresh air. What surprised me was the level of customer service in Macau. I expected Hong Kong. I was wrong.

On March 20, 2007, the Asian Film Awards held its inaugural Awards Gala in Hong Kong. Organized by the Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF) and held in conjunction with the territory's third Entertainment Expo - the umbrella event name for the HKIFF, the Hong Kong International Film & TV Market (FILMART), and the Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) - the Asian Film Awards (AFA) is certainly an unprecedented affair.

Just as the country is itself emerging as one of the major players in the global economy, Mainland Chinese cinema is growing in international stature and recognition. Whilst in the past the film factory that is Hong Kong had dominated Chinese cinema, at least in export terms, in recent years many of the key productions which have earned worldwide release have in fact come from the Mainland, such as Zhang Yimou's Curse of the Golden Flower.

7 humbling days in Hong Kong - Asia's wealthiest city - a tragic comedy starring a dusty, perpetually insolvent backpacker.