Hong Kong ABCs (28): Hong Kong Jockey Club

Horse racing has been a feature of Hong Kong life for more than 170 years. Today, it is Hong Kong’s most popular spectator sport, attracting a total attendance of 2.07 million in 2014-15, including many tourists.

Hong Kong ABCs (29): Sports venues

Hong Kong Stadium is the territory’s largest outdoor sports venue, with seating for 40,000 people.

Hong Kong ABCs (30): Public order

The Police Force’s commitment to maintaining law and order helps ensure Hong Kong remains one of the world’s safest and most stable cities.

Hong Kong ABCs (31): Banking

Hong Kong maintains three tiers of deposit-taking institutions: licensed banks (LBs), restricted license banks (RLBs) and deposit-taking companies (DTCs).

Hong Kong ABCs (32): Fund exchange

Exchange fund’s primary statutory role under the Exchange Fund Ordinance is to affect the exchange value of the Hong Kogn Dollar.

Hong Kong ABCs (33): Civil service

The civil service is a permanent, honest, meritocratic, professional and politically neutral institution responsible to the chief executive.

Hong Kong ABCs(34):Ombudsman & Audit Commission

The Ombudsman (established under The Ombudsman Ordinance) is the city’s independent watchdog of public administration.

Hong Kong ABCs (35): Must eat

Chinese tea culture features strongly in Hong Kong but the local milk tea is a more recent concoction, having only come on the scene in the 1950s.

Hong Kong ABCs(36): The Peak

The view is what makes The Peak one of the most popular attractions in Hong Kong. By day your eyes stretch across sparkling skyscrapers and Victoria Harbor all the way to the green hills of the New Territories.