Hong Kong – Optimum Performance Studio might look like any other gym, but it doesn’t act like one.  It doesn’t have salesmen pushing expensive annual memberships, and if you ask to join, its owner will say you can’t.  What’s more, in this gym, no-one is allowed to work out alone.

Hong Kong — Tianjin Teda grabbed a 5-3 victory in a penalty shoot-out to take footballing honours in this year’s Lunar New Cup, the first mainland team to win the crown since the tournament was opened up to international challengers in 1983.