For Hong Kong poodle Cream, grooming goes way beyond a brush and toe-clip — her deluxe once-a-month pampering includes lavender oxygen therapy and a milk bath. As the city welcomes the Year of the Dog,…
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#Travel: Kenya Airways suspends flight to Hong Kong and Hanoi
Kenya Airways has released a new Winter Schedule, and it no longer includes the destinations Hong Kong and Hanoi, Vietnam. In the new schedule, Kenya Airways has discontinued flights to Hong Kong and Hanoi, Vietnam,…
#Conservation: Hong Kong launches ivory ban bill
Hong Kong launched a landmark bill to ban its ivory trade Wednesday, describing it as an effort to “eradicate” the illegal poaching of elephants. The southern Chinese city is a major hub for ivory sales…
World’s oldest giant panda in captivity dies in Hong Kong
The world’s oldest ever giant panda in captivity died on Sunday aged 38 at a Hong Kong theme park, officials said. Jia Jia was put down after her health rapidly deteriorated over the last two…
#Travel: Hong Kong becomes world’s costliest city for expats
Hong Kong has overtaken Angola’s capital to become the costliest city in the world for expats, Mercer’s annual survey said Wednesday. After topping the Cost of Living report for three consecutive years, Luanda was pipped…
#WorldRecord: First ant map launched in Hong Kong
The world’s first ever ant map showing the distribution of the tiny industrious creature around the globe was launched Thursday by the University of Hong Kong in a bid to shed more light on the…
#LuxuryLiving: Where do the World’s wealthiest live?
The latest results from Global Cities Survey by Knight Frank, which monitors the cities that matter to the world’s wealthiest, unveils the top 40 global cities. For 2015, Africa’s Johannesburg and Cape Town finished 28th…
Victoria Beckham plans to open store in Hong Kong
Victoria Beckham has said that she will open her next fashion boutique in Hong Kong, after visiting the city for a major art fair and star-studded AIDS benefit gala. The British designer and former Spice…
#Travel: Watch what it’s really like to land a commercial airplane
For those that have flown in an airplane before, take-off and landing seem to be only a few seconds when the world zips by through the small passenger window. In actuality, landing, takes many minutes…
New luxury cruise terminal launches in Hong Kong
Hong Kong opened a $1.1 billion cruise terminal at the site of its former airport on Wednesday in a bid to become Asia’s hub for luxury liners. The new terminal, built on the runway of…