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.

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.

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

A sister is both your mirror – and your opposite.

Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one can teach you how to be attentive. If any system teaches you how to be attentive, then you are attentive to the system, and that is not attention.

I share a very good rapport with Shah Rukh, so I was at ease working with him, and Imtiaz is a dream director for any actor.

I would do away with super PACs. I think it's a cancer.

I've never used Sybase in my life. How would I make an intelligent decision about this versus that with a Sybase extension?

Some friends of mine had parents who made school a treat, a gift - not something to be endured.

When the vain speaker has sat down, and the people say 'what a good speech,' it still takes an ounce to balance an ounce.

Writing is always a process of discovery "I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There's a constant interplay between the imagining and shaping of the story.

I think the world is a place for oddballs and freaks. I'm only interested in oddballs and freaks as characters.

I go off and make movies; I come home, and I'm a dad and I hang with my girls.

The trade deficit is the capital surplus and don't ever think of having a capital surplus as being a bad thing for our country.

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

As a daughter of the king of kings your purpose is not to turn heads but to turn hearts toward our Heavenly Father.

I'm so not perfect.

To live according to the spirit is to love according to the spirit.

I am not the candidate of career politicians in Washington.

Pity is a benign form of abuse.

I believe a lot in destiny and I think that if something didn't happen, it was for a reason.

I received a lot of complaints from parents who wrote and told me that their kids wouldn't go to sleep until our show was over. So I went on the air and told all the children watching to 'listen to their Uncle Miltie and go to bed right after the show.'

Follow the fellow who follows a dream.

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head.

My mother once told me, when you have to make a decision, imagine the person you want to become someday. Ask yourself, what would that person do?

I do not support driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.