Further expansion of port | * Threats from Mainland ports overcoming Hong Kong importance * Slowdown of global economy * Increasing maritime transportation costs due to high petrol price | Strenghts Hong Kong deep-water harbour and ideal location at the intersection of global and regional shipping lanes. More than 80 shipping lines are operating in HIT. Proximity of fastest growing region in China. The Hong Kong HIT has been noted for its excellence in high end services‚ range of shipping
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1) What is the Disney Difference and how will it affect the company’s corporate‚ competitive and functional strategies? The Disney differences are “high-quality creative content‚ backed up by a clear strategy for maximizing that content`s value across platforms and markets”. Not only that‚ it also it is the undisputed long-lasting champion of all vacation destinations in general‚ and theme parks in particular. That reason is that they do it all right‚ and no one else comes close. For sure‚ Disney
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Insider dealing in Hong Kong Although insider dealing has been a criminal offence under section 291 of Chapter 571‚ Securities and Futures Ordinance (SFO) in Hong Kong since 2003‚ the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) was initially slow to prosecute offenders‚ commencing its first criminal insider dealing prosecution only in January 2008. Factors to be considered to commence criminal proceedings In deciding whether to commence criminal proceedings against an alleged insider dealer
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have partly met the problems of urbanization. Hong Kong’s steep increase in urbanization has caused problems in housing. As Chaffey (1994) points out‚ Hong Kong‚ despite of being an affluent city has many dilapidated buildings and most of it have lots of occupants and have no available space for their basic facilities. The sudden increase of their population was due to the inflow of refugees from mainland China and Vietnam. As a result Hong Kong has experienced a scarcity in housing and lack
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Comparing to the near area‚like Singapore‚Hong Kong’s Gini coefficient is more higher and ranked top in the world.Even the wealth gap is not common in western societies‚however‚it is no doubt that wealth gap has threatened the Hong Kong most. With the change of economic mode in Hong Kong ‚it trend to knowledge-based economy rather than manufacturing industry so that a large number of worker are unemployed immediately‚in the other hand‚a lot of high-class people are benefited by the new mode economy
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CLP Power HK Limited is one of the two power suppliers in Hong Kong. It established in 1901 which has over a century experience for providing power and serving to Hong Kong people. The 3 categories of CLP business are electricity generation by using renewables‚ natural gas and coal‚ electricity transmission and electricity supply to over 5.5 million people in its supply area. The CLP is successfully expanding the business developments into Chinese Mainland‚ Australia‚ India‚ Southeast Asia and Taiwan;
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Lee offers land for super-size elderly home Tuesday‚ November 19‚ 2013 Tycoon Lee Shau-kee has donated to Pok Oi Hospital land in Tuen Mun for a 2‚000-bed home for the elderly. The home‚ if approved by authorities‚ would be equivalent to 20 standard facilities for the elderly and shorten waiting time for such services. Henderson Land revealed that as the land is a gift from its chairman‚ he will pay the company its estimated value of HK$107 million. It is now listed as farm land though used
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there is no determinate definition for cities‚ they are varied in our cultural imaginary instead. In this paper‚ Healy’s ideas of “cultural imaginary” of cities would be examined by looking into the the urban characteristics of an Asian city – Hong Kong‚ where mediatisation and technology play main roles in everyday life. Real life examples would be cited to illustrate how these imaginaries take material forms in our daily life. Cities consist of both cultural imaginaries and lived cultural experiences
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Editor Nursing Issues in Hong Kong Steven L. Baumann‚ RN; PhD Associate Professor‚ Hunter College of the City University of New York‚ New York Changes in nursing in Hong Kong over the past decade have had more to do with the changes in the world and the region’s economy and population than the changes instituted by the Republic of China. Hong Kong’s nearly 7 million people’s health is‚ like in other places‚ threatened by a shortage of skilled and experienced nurses. Hong Kong’s three major university-based
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Air pollution in Hong Kong is often so bad that it is impossible to see across Victoria Harbor due to all the haze and smog. The government did endeavor to modify the air quality but‚ sadly‚ it still deteriorates continually. Even worse‚ the Air Pollution Index recently hit a record high‚ which suggests that the air quality in Hong Kong is far lower than the international standard. It all shows that air pollution is just a growing problem and I’m writing to raise several concerns about air pollution
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