Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Essential Information
Practicalities
Metric System
The metric system is officially used, but traditional Chinese weights and measures persist at local
markets, including
leung
(37.8g) and
gan
(catty; about 605g). There are 16
leung
to the
gan
.
Newspapers & Magazines
The local English-language newspapers are the
South China Morning Post
(
www.scmp.com
)
, published daily ($7), and the
Standard
(
www.thestandard.com.hk
)
, published Monday to
Saturday ($6). The Beijing mouthpiece
China Daily
(
www.chinadaily.com.cn
)
prints a Hong Kong English-lan-
guage edition ($6).
Radio
Popular English-language stations in Hong Kong are RTHK Radio 3 (current affairs and talk radio; 567AM,
1584AM, 97.9FM and 106.8FM), RTHK Radio 4 (classical music; 97.6FM-98.9FM), RTHK Radio 6 (BBC World
Service relays; 675AM), AM 864 (hit parade; 864AM) and Metro Plus (news; 1044AM).
Time
Hong Kong Standard Time is eight hours ahead of GMT; there is no daylight saving time in summer.
TV
The two English-language terrestrial stations are TVB Pearl and ATV World.
Business Hours
Top Tip
Banks and post offices are closed on Sundays.
Exceptions to the following hours are noted in listings.
Restaurants
Smaller eateries from 7am or 8am to 11pm; formal restaurants from 11am to
at least 10pm
Shops
10am or 11am to 9pm or 10pm
Customs Regulations
›
The duty-free allowance for visitors arriving in Hong Kong (including those coming from
Macau and mainland China) is 19 cigarettes (or 1 cigar or 25g of tobacco) and 1L of spirits.
Apart from these limits there are few other import taxes.
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