BEING labelled a high-flyer in the Government these days has taken on a new dimension - and one more in line with getting places in style and comfort rather than being on the fast track to promotion.
On a recent trip to the United States to gather evidence in a complicated money laundering trial, two Hong Kong lawyers working on the case decided to forgo slumming it with the plebs in economy on the return trip to New York.
Instead, they forked out an extra $10,000 or so for a round-the-world flight, including a quick blast across the North Atlantic between the Big Apple and London in the height of luxury travel - on Concorde.
But we are told there is no need to ring the graft-busters in the Murray Road car park building to investigate another example of civil servants claiming illegitimate expenses.
According to a Legal Department spokesman, the pair dug into their own pockets to pay for the supersonic flight, with the characteristic boom as it breaks the sound barrier, and covered all costs above and beyond what they clearly consider to be inadequate allowances.
SPORT-LOVING Central District police were able to get in on the Hong Kong Sixes hype with one of their periodic licensing raids in the Lan Kwai Fong area a couple of days before the big cricket event.