If people have overloaded their bins, we shan't be sending the police or the heavy brigade round.

BBC: Row of rubbish bins

The flight was carrying 71 people, including 48 foreign passengers, from the city of Mandalay to Heho airport in Shan State, the gateway to a popular tourist destination, Inle Lake, Air Bagan said in a statement Tuesday evening that revised earlier figures.

MSN: Plane crash-lands on Myanmar road, 2 killed

Wayne Kong Yuk-shan, a branch officer at an Aeon office in the Central business district, says some 100 people, a number of them male, queued every day to apply for the pastel-pink card - and choose their free gift from a selection of Hello Kitty appliances. (These days, the giveaways are Kitty cup noodles and a cushion.) "Hong Kong people are very influenced by Japanese culture, so they like Kitty, " says Kong.

CNN: PRETTY IN PINK SLUMP

"Both in terms of policy and people's sentiments, opportunities are coming to fruition, " says bestselling Beijing author Wang Shan.

CNN: Money for Influence?