tourism. Considering its proximity to mainland China‚ Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) has all the benefits to gain with the increasing demand by mainland Chinese for travelling abroad and for shopping. To enhance Hong Kong as a first choice for mainland Chinese tourists‚ the Hong Kong government successfully sealed a joint venture with Walt Disney Company for the establishment of a HK Disneyland Park. However‚ the Hong Kong government also gave Ocean Park‚ its local theme park
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Bandag Inc. on the basis of the analysis done by Gerald Borenstein decided to expand their operations to Hong Kong. This move proved to be favourable for Borenstein until the economic downturn‚ something he had no control over. There were signs along the way of the turning economy‚ but‚ there was no possible way for Borenstein to stop or change the inevitable. Borenstein tried to continue operating as he saw best‚ but stronger competition and the loss of his contacts‚ other factors he had no control
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Imagine that you are the Chief Executive of Hong Kong‚ what will you plan to do in order to reduce the health impact of earthquake? Among all natural disasters‚ earthquake has perhaps caused the highest death toll and financial loss. Being unpredictable and undetectable‚ alleviation as well as evacuation have become even more difficult. The Hanshin-Awaji earthquake in 1995 caused a property loss of over US$60 billion and a lost of more than US$100 billion in capital (Sawada‚ 2008‚ p.463)‚ whereas
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In 1983‚ Hong Kong implemented Fixed-linkage System to US currency because of the reason that Hong Kong currency was very unstable. This Fixed-linkage System is a fixed exchange rate system that fixes the exchange rate of Hong Kong Dollar and United State Dollar to a ratio of 7.8: 1 Hong Kong Monetary Authority does not need to stable exchange market by controlling the supply and demand of HKD. It can be stabilized by Fixed-linkage System. In the past 15 years‚ Hong Kong interest rates and exchange
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to avoid some of the problems in Hong Kong since the business environment is different between Euro and China. In 2007‚ the visitors of Hong Kong Disneyland dropped nearly 30 percent. Customers complained about the size of Hong Kong Disneyland and they are unfamiliar with Disney’s characters. First of all‚ the reason of low acceptance of Disney in China is different from that in France. When the Disneyland opened in France‚ it was not welcomed by the local people; they saw it as an invading of American
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Is the Say of ‘Hong Kong Media Good; Mainland Media Bad’ Completely True? Although the rank of freedom of Hong Kong media is much higher than that of China‚ there are some exceptions to the general rule which states Hong Kong media are free whereas the mainland media are not free. On 6 June 12‚ a Tianamen Square dissident‚ Li Wangyang was found to commit suicide by hanging himself in the Hunan hospital without leaving any note. The suspect of Li’s death evokes all Hong Kong media to report
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Abstract Nowadays‚ many problems induce some affect to the social welfare system in Hong Kong. In this article‚ we defined that aging population; widening income inequality and economic downturn are the problems induce affect. In this article‚ we are going to use the current and future situation of social welfare system to have a compare to show how the problems associated with the social welfare system in Hong Kong. In the following‚ we highlight the issues that what the problems cause‚ then
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Research Proposal Project Title: Code-mixing among University students in Hong Kong within the school’s context TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT 1 1. INTRODUCTION 2 1.1 Background 2 1.2 Objective 3 2. LITERATURE REVIEW 4 2.1 Studies form the societal language pattern 4 2.2 Studies form the ubiquity of mixed code within school context 4 2.2.1 Notice or advertising within school context 4 2.2.2 Student informal conversation within school context 5 3. PROJECT
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Venue Management Evaluation of the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center Introduction Hong Kong‚ which has a good geographical location‚ a well-developed infrastructure system‚ and adequate supply of hotel rooms‚ is a good place for developing convention and exhibition market. Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center (HKCEC) was established in 1988 after which Hong Kong exhibition industry experienced rapid growth leading Hong Kong to establish its position as Asia’s trade fair
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Research on repositioning of the Hong Kong Ocean Park Corporation – Revised Graduation Proposal ofto 50346885 Research on repositioning of the Hong Kong Ocean Park Corporation Revised Graduation Proposal School of Creative Media‚ City University of Hong Kong Student Name: Student No.: Principal Advisor: Second Advisor: Date: To‚ On Fun 50346885 Mr. Philip Lee Miss Jacqueline Liu 31 October‚ 2003. 1 Research on repositioning of the Hong Kong Ocean Park Corporation – Revised Graduation
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