The International Commerce Centre rises above the city skyline to 484m and is the tallest skyscraper in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong is a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, which means that it enjoys greater political and social autonomy than mainland China, separate administrative and legal systems (based on British common law) and a separate currency (the Hong Kong Dollar, HKD$).

The name 'Hong Kong' is Cantonese for 'fragrance harbor'.

Hong Kong consists of three main territories - Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and New Territories - plus more than 260 smaller (and mostly uninhabited) islands, located where the Pearl river meets the South China Sea.

Hong Kong had been under the British Crown rule for 155 years, from 1842 untill 1997.

Both Chinese and English are the official languages in Hong Kong. English is widely used in the Government and by the legal, professional and business sectors.

HK ranks #1 among the cities with the most number of skyscrapers in the world.

Victoria Peak or commonly known as 'The Peak' is the highest point on Hong Kong Island and offers a breathtaking view over Victoria Harbor.

Snake soup is a Chinese delicacy that contains as many as five different types of snake meat. Boiled with ingredients such as pork bones, chicken, and spices, this thick and flavorful soup is especially popular in Hong Kong during the winter months.

'Big Buddha' is a 34m tall statue located on a Lantau Island. It is the second-largest outdoor sitting Buddha in the world.

In 2008 'The Dark Knight' came to HK to film a scene in which the caped crusader captures mob accountant Lau. The building in question is Two International Financial Centre, over 400m tall and at the time the tallest in the city.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.

If you polish things too much, it loses the feeling.

In Mars, we've been given a wonderful set of moons... where we can send continuous numbers of people.

Everybody's family has different values.

I think the American public can accept the fact if you tell them that every time you pick up the phone it's going to be recorded and it goes to the government. I think the public can understand that.

Sure, President Bush can say that the U.S. government won't fund stem cell research, but believe me, Japan is applauding. Because they will just do it first and get all the patents.

Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink.

Somebody's got to be last. Somebody's going to be first.

When mermaids sleep in oceans deep inside their coral caves, they lay their hweads on seaweed beds, rocked softly by the waves.

Believing hath a core of unbelieving.

We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.

Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism.

Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point.

Mum, who had been a dancer with a small ballet company before she got married, was full of encouragement. She didn't say, 'This is really good, you should do this', She just encouraged us to do whatever we liked.

I have the same skin-care routine morning and night, although I'm not one of those people who always uses the same products. My skin changes with the weather.

The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security.

I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course.

The more that we choose not to talk about domestic violence the more we shy away from the issue the more we lose.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

China's many nationalities need only to be transformed into the Chinese nation and to make it a highly civilized nation; then the nationalization process will be completed.

I like fantasy.

To this day, with all of these muscle-bound guys, nobody hit the ball further than Mickey Mantle, with his natural strength.

It's quite amazing to me, as I walk around a supermarket or a health food shop, to observe the number of Fairtrade choices: not just staples such as coffee, tea, fresh fruits and rice, but cocoa and chocolate, herbs and spices, honey, ice cream, and jams.