An informant tells us one reason Secretary for Financial Services Frederick Ma Si-hang might have been reluctant to race back to Hong Kong following the penny-stock fiasco in July. We already knew he had been in England for his daughter's graduation.
Mr Ma, who has since been rated Hong Kong's least popular politician, fell under the hypnotic spell of the English countryside.
Apparently he was improving his golf, archery and falcon-handling skills at the Stapleford Park Country House Hotel in Leicestershire: 'one of the best country-house hotels in the world,' according to its Web site.
State rooms at the Spa, Golf and Sporting Estate hotel run from GBP265 (about HK$3,243) to GBP505 and dogs are welcome, as long as they are 'well behaved'.
Stay an extra day or two in luxurious surroundings amid the peace and quiet of a Victorian-style country house or head straight back to face the anger of thousands of penny-stock investors? What would you do?
Degrees in sophism: A true test of a university's reputation: blue-chip corporate executives are caught out claiming non-existent qualifications from your institution. Stanford University stands out in this regard.
