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Hong Kong restaurant boasts robot staff

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.…

Star French chef hits Asia’s streets

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…

Luxury checks in at new Hong Kong hotels

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…

Sizing up the future of air travel

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…

Disney bets that it’s a small world after all

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…

Mystery woman baffles Hong Kong authorities

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…