Hong Kong - When Helen left her native Zimbabwe and travelled across the world to a new life in Hong Kong, the last person she would have chosen to follow her was the man she blamed unequivocally for the ruin of her homeland: Robert Mugabe.

Her peace of mind was shattered when a report surfaced earlier this month that the African country's 85-year-old president, who
30-year stranglehold on power may be loosening as Zimbabwe sinks deeper into economic and political chaos, has bought a home in the city worth 5 million US dollars.

Hong Kong - A police report into an alleged assault by the wife of Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe on a Hong Kong photographer has been sent to the city's Department of Justice to decide whether she should be prosecuted, police said Sunday.

Hong Kong police are understood to believe they have sufficient evidence to prosecute after two vital witnesses were traced following the incident involving Zimbabwe's First Lady Grace Mugabe on January 15, according to a source familiar with the case.

Hong Kong  - It must rank as one of the most public temper tantrums of all time.

By Sunday morning, nearly 4.5 million people worldwide had gone online to see video of a middle-aged woman have an emotional meltdown after missing a flight out of Hong Kong.

The video clip of the unidentified passenger screaming and throwing herself to ground after arriving at the departure gate at Hong Kong International Airport too late to board a San Francisco-bound flight has clocked up new viewers at the rate of more than 600,000 a day.

Hong Kong  - Two men were questioned Friday by police in Hong Kong in connection with a plot to rig big money races by shooting poison darts at horses.

The men were arrested Thursday evening after being seen acting suspiciously by security guards on a public jogging track that goes around the Happy Valley racecourse.

Hong Kong  - Around 66,000 people fell out of the Hong-Kong- dollar millionaire bracket in 2008 as shares prices plunged because of the global economic meltdown, according to a survey published Friday.

The number of people in the affluent former British colony with 1 million Hong Kong dollars (129,000 US dollars) in liquid assets fell from 414,000 in 2007 to 348,000 in 2008, the survey found.