HONG KONG is in the news and seems to have put the problems associated with the Chinese takeover and SARS well behind it.
From an air travel point of view, Qantas has just introduced daily through flights from London to Melbourne and new airline Oasis Air has moved a step forward towards a launch before the end of the year with the acquisition of a pair of Boeing 747-400 from SIA, due to arrive in July.
The world famous Mandarin Oriental Hotel, on Connaught Road, closed at the beginning of the year, will reopen this autumn following a £10m renovation.
Now 40 years old, it will actually lose rooms, the accommodation reducing from 541 to 503.
Asian Aerospace, long established in Singapore, moves in 2007 to a new purpose-built exhibition centre, AsiaWorld-Expo, adjacent to the Chek Lap Kok International Airport.
If your other half does not like air shows, also just opened, Hong Kong”s new Disneyworld is very close by.
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