- HONG KONG
HEADNOTE Hong Kong's Composite Society Offers Conveniences to Firms Worldwide Being composite characterizes the society of Hong Kong. Hong Kong society simultaneously exhibits diversified facets of its characteristics: a Chinese society in which 90% of the population is Chinese; the society of Chinese merchants residing abroad; an Anglo-Saxon heritage because ......
- Hong Kong, China in transition.
Hong Kong, China's transparent and rules-based approach to economic policymaking has encouraged its rapid growth over the past decade and a half. How has this approach been applied in practice, and how can Hong Kong maintain its impressive performance? Over the past 15 years, Hong Kong, China, has seen dramatic ......
- Hong Kong's function dispersing
HEADNOTE HONG KONG HEADNOTE Special Feature HEADNOTE The role that Hong Kong once played in the apparel trade has started to disperse to Eastern China, mainly Shanghai and to Northern China such as Qingdao. In Shanghai, there are large-sized textile firms which are targeting the market within China. In contrast, ......
- Hong Kong proves its versatility
HEADNOTE WORLD WATCH HEADNOTE DESPITE COMPETITION FROM CITIES IN MAINLAND CHINA, THE FORMER BRITISH COLONY REMAINS A PRIMARY GATEWAY FOR THE WORLD'S COMMERCE. IMAGE PHOTOGRAPH 4 CASUAL READERS OF THE NEWSPAPERS IN HONG KONG WOULD BE ENTItled to think the world's 10th largest economy was in some kind of financial, ......
- Hong Kong
HEADNOTE Textile Business Hub Connecting the World Hong Kong has expanded its business by effectively utilizing its special geographical advantage and global connections. Many sourcing offices of European and U.S. apparel firms as well as a high degree of freedom in Hong Kong have made favorable impressions. Since its hand-over ......
- New Hong Kong Hotels Expected To Open Despite SARS
Despite the intense scrutiny the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome has caused in Asia, high profile hotel projects already in late-stage development in Hong Kong are moving forward. Hong Kong and the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have been identified closely with the rise of the recently identified disease.
- Poised for growth
HEADNOTE THE PEARL RIVER DELTA BUILDS UP INFRASTRUCTURE FOR AN EXPECTED INDUSTRIAL BOOM. BY MARK GRAHAM In the coming decades the Pearl River Delta region-the huge swath of land that includes Hong Kong, Macau, and the southern part of communist China's most prosperous province-- should be one of the mightiest ......