The central banks of several Asian countries that are fearful of the impact a weak dollar will have on their exports, intervened in the markets on Thursday to buy the troubled U.S. currency.

Stephen Green, Chairman of one of the world's largest banking groups HSBC, has spoken of how the banking world owes what he calls the "real world" an apology.

A providential coincidence of modern Chinese history may have aligned the strategic interests of two profoundly important but different groups of persecuted Chinese nationals who have suffered the same unhappy fate.

Vegemite is the Australian yeast extract spread that terrifies foreigners and prevents taking American chat shows too seriously. Recently Kraft, the owner of Vegemite, decided on a new Vegemite-inspired snack, and held a naming competition.

The new movie 2012 will be premiering worldwide on November 13. On Oct. 1 the film's marketing launched in the biggest blitz in film history, surpassing even the Super Bowl.

The international aid agency Oxfam has launched a £9.5 million ($15 million) emergency appeal for East Africa as 23 million people in the region find their lives under threat from hunger.

Economic forecaster of the current global financial crisis and publisher of Gloom Boom Doom Marc Faber delivered a speech in Hong Kong on Friday and took on nobel-prize winner Paul Krugman's latest article "How Did Economists Get it So Wrong?"

In recognition of the growing financial might of Asia, HSBC bank, the largest company in the U.K and one of the largest banks in the world, is moving the main office of its Chief Executive Michael Geoghegan from London to Hong Kong.

Hong Kong was the scene of hundreds of demonstrators protesting the police brutality against journalists covering unrest in Xinjiang on Sunday.

An accident in Hong Kong has left six people dead. The cleaning staff, who were working in a skyscraper, fell down 17 storeys.