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.

Hong Kong - Hong Kong's leading English-language newspaper was protesting Thursday to officials in neighbouring Macau after one of its photographers was refused entry to the territory.

Felix Wong of the South China Morning Post was detained and then sent back on a ferry to Hong Kong when he attempted to travel to Macau to cover a corruption case involving a former transport secretary.

Wong had been given a Macau government permit to cover the trial but claims he was sent back to Hong Kong after being made to sign papers saying he had been denied entry under internal security laws.

Hong Kong  - A Hong Kong chef on Thursday began a 20-month jail sentence for attacking a woman diner with a meat cleaver after she complained about his food.

Cheng Chi-wai, 50, hit the 47-year-old woman on the head with the cleaver after she grumbled about the meal she was served in the seafood restaurant in the city's Wan Chai district.

He ran into the kitchen and emerged with two meat cleavers after she remarked on the poor quality of his cooking and hit the woman on the forehead with the blunt side of one of the cleavers.