Hong Kong - Israeli diplomats in China have raised concerns over a national business awards contest with a logo that looks similar to the Nazi SS insignia, a news report said Monday.

Billboard posters for the China Top Brand awards scheme have appeared in Hong Kong with an logo that looks similar to the lightning-strike style insignia used by the German SS, a powerful paramilitary organization, responsible for many of the Nazi's worst crimes.

Hong Kong  - The wife of Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has been granted diplomatic immunity over an alleged attack on a newspaper photographer in Hong Kong, officials said Sunday.

The city's Department of Justice decided 43-year-old Grace Mugabe is entitled to immunity despite a police investigation that concluded there was enough evidence to prosecute her over the January 15 incident.

Hong Kong  - A motorcyclist was injured Saturday in a collision with a monkey on a road in Hong Kong in which the monkey was killed, police said.

The motorcyclist, who told officers the monkey ran out into the road in front of him in the city's rural Tai Po district, was treated for minor injuries in hospital, a police spokesman said.

Hong Kong is home to a booming population of more than 2,000 grey macaque monkeys that live mostly in countryside areas near the former British colony's border with China.

Hong Kong - More than 1,600 Hong Kong companies filed for bankruptcy in February, the highest monthly figure since 2004, the government announced Friday.

The figure is more than double the number that filed for bankruptcy in January and highlights the growing impact of the global recession on the wealthy city of 7 million.

Hong Kong - Life would be meaningless and not worth living without the internet, nearly one in seven Hong Kong youngsters said in a survey released Friday.

Just under 14 per cent of 1,800 respondents aged 12 to 25 insisted they could not live without the internet while 80 per cent described it as essential.

One-quarter of respondents in the high-rise, high-tech city of 7 million, where 77 per cent of households have broadband access, said they used the internet for more than four hours a day.

Hong Kong  - Twelve passengers were injured Friday when a commuter ferry collided with a ship as heavy fog enveloped waters around Hong Kong.

The ferry was travelling from the outlying island of Cheung Chau to Hong Kong when the accident took place about 20 minutes before the ferry was due to dock at the city centre.

Visibility was low at the time of the dawn accident on a second day of heavy fog in the high-rise city, which on Thursday saw visibility reduced to around 500 metres.