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/ 25 October 2006
With a whir and a flash of lights, a robot whizzes to the restaurant table and takes a customer’s order, while a second races to another table to deliver plates of steaming food. This isn’t a scene from a science-fiction novel. Rather, it’s the daily routine at a new diner in a suburban Hong Kong shopping centre.
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/ 16 January 2006
He’s among an elite coterie of chefs who command the sort of respect usually accorded royalty, but when Thierry Marx comes to Hong Kong there’s only one place you’ll find him searching for a meal. "I hit the street as soon as I come here," says an excited Marx. "There is nothing like street food, especially in Asia.
Hong Kong’s high-end hotel sector just got more luxurious with a spate of new openings and refurbishments designed to cash in on the Chinese city’s newfound position as a top travel destination. Spurred by a strong economic recovery from almost seven years of decline the city got its first new hotels in 15 years this autumn.
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/ 19 September 2005
From private cabins with designer fabrics and en suite bathrooms in first class to on-screen virtual air attendants taking orders in economy, the future of air travel is going high-tech and high-style. Modern technology has made it possible for airline interior designers to fit jets with more gadgets in the expensive seats and still add vital centimetres to leg room in the cheaper rows.
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/ 9 September 2005
Roy Hardy’s task was simple when he was hired in 2002 to market Hong Kong Disneyland: make Mickey, Donald and company as familiar to families in China as they are in the West. To kids in the United States and Europe, where for three generations Disney’s cartoons and movies have been a part of growing up, it may seem a no-brainer.
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/ 7 September 2005
She appeared from nowhere on a rain-tossed morning, sitting naked on a Hong Kong shoreline, unable to speak. Now she sits in a hospital bed, staring into space, mute and expressionless, her charts naming her simply as "Unknown". The mysterious appearance of the Western woman has put Hong Kong authorities in a bind.