Quotes of The Week
The closer you are to officials, the fewer favours you get ... I absolutely will not return to the government. I never liked politics.
Former civil servant and Kowloon Motor Bus chief John Chan Cho-chak, complaining about government bureaucracy
We wondered if at 78 yuan (HK$86) a cup, Yeasun Coffee Shop could be entered into the Guinness book of records as offering the most expensive cup of coffee in China.
Traveller Alan Bell, commenting on the price of a cup of coffee at a Xiamen airport cafe. He turned out to be wrong because Caprice at the Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong offers a cup of Kopi Luwak at HK$220, billed as the world's best
When people's minds are full of those images, they will find the two fleshy tongues disturbing. The disembodiment of body parts is very scary and vulgar, especially to children.
Annisa Lee Lai Chun-hing, a Chinese University journalism professor, referring to a new Coca-Cola television ad featuring vivid animation of human organs - an eye ball, two tongues, a finger and a brain - acting and arguing like human beings, which has attracted 178 complaints to the Broadcasting Authority
[The question] is a bit too imaginative. Nobody knows what the future is.
Outgoing immigration chief Lai Tung-kwok, who is rumoured to be in line to be appointed secretary for security
We have a lack of experience and a lot of money. That is trouble.
China Investment Corp chief risk officer Jesse Wang Jianxi, referring to losses that China's sovereign investment fund has incurred overseas
