Hong Kong - Police in Hong Kong were Sunday seeking a slightly built prostitute in connection with the death of a Hong Kong man weighing over 100 kilograms.

The 54-year-old man was found naked early Saturday on the floor of a "love hotel" in Hong Kong's Tsim Sha Tsui district where rooms are rented by the hour, a police spokesman said.

He had checked in hours earlier with a woman aged around 30 who police believe was a mainland Chinese prostitute. She raised the alarm then fled the hotel before police could interview her.

Hong Kong - Hong Kong's government is spending hundreds of thousands of US dollars looking for a new logo to replace its current moniker of "Asia's World City," a news report said Sunday.

The former British colony's government has spent 160,000 US dollars hiring the public relations' firm Fleishmann-Hillard to supervise the task, the Sunday Morning Post reported.

Another 64,000 US dollars is now being spent setting up a website for people to put forward their ideas on a new logo and image for the city of 6.9 million.

Hong Kong - Hong Kong's government is spending hundreds of thousands of US dollars looking for a new slogan to replace the current boast of "Asia's World City," a news report said Sunday.

The former British colony's government has spent 160,000 US dollars hiring multi-national communications company Fleishmann- Hillard to supervise the task, the Sunday Morning Post reported.

Hong Kong - Hong Kong shares slid back a further 3 per cent Thursday as investors sold off stocks on concerns over the state of the global economy.

The Hang Seng Index fell 611.06 points, or 3.09 per cent, to close the day at 19,388.72 points, just one day after tumbling back through the 20,000 barrier. Turnover was 
69.59 billion Hong Kong dollars (8.9 billion US dollars).

Hong Kong - China can expect a post-Olympics boom in visitor numbers from some of the millions who were dazzled watching the Beijing games on TV, a survey released in Hong Kong indicated Thursday.

The survey of audiences in 16 worldwide markets found that while 45 per cent of viewers intended to one day visit China before the games started, 51 per cent said they would visit after seeing the closing ceremony.

Meanwhile, the number of viewers saying they had no interest in visiting China dropped from one third to around one quarter between the opening and closing ceremonies.

Hong Kong - A Las Vegas casino is suing the estate of a Hong Kong businessman who leapt to his death after running up a casino bill of almost 800,000 US dollars, a news report said Thursday.

Wynn Las Vegas filed the suit in Hong Kong's High Court alleging that Alvin Lau Chiu-leung failed to pay back 782,000 dollars of a 2005 credit advanced by the casino, the South China Morning Post reported.