JOHN WOO spent all of Monday night staring out his hotel room window. 'I have a lot of memories,' he said. 'I couldn't sleep all night. I miss Hong Kong a lot.' Still, it's been 21/2 years since this A-list Hollywood director last visited his home town, and even then it was only for a three-day promotional tour. This time, he stayed in the territory for just one day and has no plans to return.

'I am too busy,' he said.

Woo, 47, is running on nervous energy. Always a chain-smoker, he's more edgy and fidgety than ever before.

US Central Command reported that the stealth fighter was forced to make an emergency landing during a combat mission over Iran on Thursday.

“We are aware of reports that a US F-35 aircraft conducted an emergency landing at a regional US airbase after flying a combat mission over Iran,” spokesman Captain Tim Hawkins said in a statement.

It would mark the first trip to the city by a sitting US senator since the Covid-19 pandemic.

Daines would meet American business leaders in Hong Kong on March 30, the sources said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to comment publicly on the matter.