Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
The livelier and slightly punchier tabloid
Hong Kong Standard
(
www.thestandard.com.hk
)
,
published Monday to Saturday (weekend edition), is harder to find.
The Běijīng mouthpiece
China Daily
(
www.chinadaily.com.cn
) also prints a Hong Kong
English-language edition of its paper.
Hong Kong has its share of English-language periodicals, including a slew of homegrown
(and Asian-focused) business-related magazines.
Time, Newsweek
and the
Economist
are all
available in their current editions.
Opening Hours
The following list summarises standard opening hours:
Banks
9am to 4.30pm or 5.30pm Monday to Friday, 9am to 12.30pm Saturday
Offices
9am to 5.30pm or 6pm Monday to Friday (lunch hour 1pm to 2pm)
Museums
10am to between 5pm and 9pm; closed Monday, Tuesday or Thursday
Restaurants
11am to 3pm and 6pm to 11pm
Shops
Usually 10am to 8pm
Post
Hong Kong Post
( 2921 2222;
www.hongkongpost.com
) is generally excellent; local letters
are often delivered the same day they are sent and there is Saturday delivery. The staff at
most post offices speak English, and the green mail boxes are clearly marked in English.
Receiving Mail
If a letter is addressed c/o Poste Restante, GPO Hong Kong, it will go to the GPO on Hong
Kong Island. Pick it up at counter No 29 from 8am to 6pm Monday to Saturday only. If you
want your letters to go to Kowloon, have them addressed as follows: c/o Poste Restante,
Tsim Sha Tsui Post Office, 10 Middle Rd, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon. Overseas mail is nor-
mally held for two months and local mail for two weeks.
Sending Mail
8am-6pm Mon-Sat, 9am-5pm Sun) is just east of the Hong Kong station. In Kowloon, the
