QUOTES OF THE WEEK

'The most valuable part of the clock tower is the collective memory.'

Deputy Secretary for Housing, Planning and Lands Robin Ip Man-fai, explaining why the old Star Ferry clock must make way for a road and shopping mall

'There are lawyers in Thailand.'

Deposed Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra on a short visit to Hong Kong, who was asked by reporters if he was looking for legal counsel after being spotted leaving Central's Edinburgh Tower, where many law firms reside

'I had no idea these truffles were so prized and in fact I don't really like the smell of them.'

Tycoon Gordon Wu Ying-sheung, after paying HK$1.25 million for the year's biggest Alba white truffle - for charity