Hong Kong also sports the most convenient airport in Asia and the up-to-date tech zones Cyberport and Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks, though both have taken a while to catch on even as new hang-outs spring up in more central locations such as Cocoon.

FORBES: Can A Startup Culture Take Hold in Hong Kong?

The Bank of Japan expanded its asset purchases this spring and a number of other central banks have cut interest rates, including the European Central Bank and Reserve Bank of Australia.

FORBES: FOCUS: Gold Sideways; ETF Outflows, Stocks Hurt; Physical Demand, Accommodation Help

With politicians clamouring for the central bank to buy shares, the scheduled replacement next spring of Masaru Hayami, the Bank's governor, also weighed on a few officials' minds.

ECONOMIST: The Bank of Japan

Spring has arrived: the wooded hills and ravines of central Kosovo provide plenty of cover.

ECONOMIST: Kosovo

Some analysts, looking at a recently released Chinese central bank report, think the Chinese will adjust the currency's value in the spring or the summer, but the evidence of the intention to do so is ambiguous at best.

FORBES: New Asia

Some of the best birding spots turn out to be smack in the middle of the most peopled places, like Philadelphia's Fairmount Park, San Francisco's Golden Gate Park and New York's Central Park, where well over 200 of America's 750 bird species pass each spring and fall as they migrate.

FORBES: Wings of Desire