DIARY: HK bars make headlines with Time and NatGeo lookalikes

Grim economic times can often make for some unusual bedfellows, but these two marriages of convenience certainly took Diary by surprise.

Never ones to shy from controversy, local Hong Kong bars Joe Bananas and Mad Dogs are making headlines with their latest advertising stunt.

Amid the plethora of World Cup images in entertainment magazines across Hong Kong, the bar group has traded in its standard visuals of well-endowed women for the covers of Time and NatGeo clones in an apparent bid to lure more worldly drinkers during the World Cup. But Diary can't help wondering what the media owners in question would have to say about this.