Thanks to its geographical location, Hong Kong enjoys a fascinating twist: half of the world's population lies within a five-hour direct flight.
All the superlatives apply to the marine salvage operation about to unfold off the Italian island of Giglio - it's the largest, the most expensive and the most complicated. And it's the first of its kind.
The UN Food and Agricuture Organisation has just published a report on the promotion of entomophagy - the consumption
Kowloon Walled City, located not far from the former Kai Tak Airport, was a remarkable high-rise squatter camp that by the 1980s had 50,000 residents.
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