Nineteen tourists from the territory have been stranded in Thailand after their passports were stolen at Bangkok airport when they were getting ready to board a flight home.
The 19 included a tour guide from Wing On Travel and 18 tourists on a five-day trip to Thailand starting last Thursday.
They were supposed to take a returning flight at 2 pm on Monday.
The company's assistant general manager, Leung Kong-lan, said: 'The passports were stolen just as our Thailand staff had completed the check-in procedures and was ready to return the documents to the tourists.
'The Hong Kong tour guide was taking care of the tourists at that time.' She said they had reported the case to the police and the British embassy in Bangkok to arrange for emergency travel documents.
A Thai tourist police officer said a member of the group called the station to report the missing documents, but the conversations lasted no longer than a few minutes.
'As soon as we questioned whether they were really stolen and said they must come in, they stopped talking and now we don't know what happened,' the officer said.