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The Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) has conveniently located branches offering brochures and advice. There is also a website and multilingual visitor hotline.

HKTB’s website (see directory) is a good starting point. Others include theSouth China Morning Post ’swww.scmp.comandwww.totallyhk.com. For directory services go towww.hkt.com.

The broadsheet dailySouth China Morning Post provides extensive coverage of local, Chinese and world news. The tabloidi-mail offers less comprehensive coverage and an irreverent spin.

HK Magazine (free) is a weekly listings magazine with eating, drinking and going out tips.BC Magazine (also free) is a clubbing-heavy, twice-monthly guide with listings. Both are available from bars and restaurants.

ATV World and TVB Pearl are Hong Kong’s two terrestrial English-language channels. RTHK is Hong Kong’s publicly funded but editorially independent radio broadcaster. RTHK 3 (567 AM, 1584AM) has mainly news, finance and current affairs; RTHK 4 (96.7–98.9FM) plays Western and Chinese classical music, RTHK 6 (675AM) broadcasts BBC World Service programming.

The HKTB has free maps of central Hong Kong and free booklets includingA Guide to Quality Merchants ,Hong Kong Access Guide for Disabled Visitors andExploring Hong Kong’s Countryside , available in several languages. Good maps (theCountryside Series ) are available from Government Publications Centres.

The Hong Kong Trade Development Council (www.tdc.org.hk) offers useful information.

The government website,www.info.gov. hk, with links to all its departments, is a good starting point for facts and figures. The CIA’s online World Factbook offers raw statistics on Hong Kong and China at:www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

Hong Kong Observatory’s phoneline and website offer daily and three-day forecasts. The Weather Underground site,www. underground.org.hk, andSouth China Morning Post athttp://weather. scmp.comalso have local weather and air pollution information.

Hong Kong: A Guide to Recent Architecture by Juanita Cheng and Andrew Yeoh is a useful pocket guide.A History of Hong Kong by Frank Welsh starts from the time of British rule.Travellers’ Tales Guides: Hong Kong includes some excellent writing from Jan Morris, Bruce Chatwin and Charles Jennings.