Hong Kong

Hong Kong topped the World Economic Forum’s 2011 index of financial market development, supplanting the U.S. and U.K. from the highest rankings for the first time.

Many a hotel has used the prospect of a breathtaking view, whether of a pretty stretch of seafront, an urban skyline or towards rolling hills, to boost its appeal to would-be guests – only for said guests to find themselves staring at the kitchen bins or the fire escape. But anyone checking in to the new Ritz-Carlton in Hong Kong is unlikely to be disappointed by the panorama visible from the window of their suite.

Hong Kong's Department of Health's Public Health Laboratory Services Branch (PHLSB) Monday announced that a strain of A/H1N1 influenza virus which is resistant to anti-virus drug oseltamivir (Tamiflu) was detected.

HONG Kong has topped the 60 largest economies in the world in terms of globalization, according to a survey released Monday by Ernst & Young and the Economist Intelligence Unit.

Eight people - including current and former Hong Kong airport employees - have been arrested in the case of a young Asian man who disguised himself as an elderly passenger on a flight from Hong Kong to Vancouver, according to a news report.