HONG KONG

“Proudly international yet unmistakably local”

As recently as last November, Bloomberg was comparing debt levels in the Hong Kong property market to the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997-98. That was then. By early January, in between major transactions and a continuing run of IPOs boosting demand for high-quality office space, the mood shift was palpable, and the turnaround has come…

In 1985, HSBC stunned the architectural world with its $1 billion headquarters building, a steel suspended structure so bold, experimental and expensive that it was an immediate lightning rod for controversy. Designed by a then little-known British architect, Norman Foster, it was seen as a statement of commitment to Hong Kong’s future, soon after the…

Loron Orris gives the lowdown on the nexus between sports and Hong Kong

How the SPCA is unleashing Hong Kong’s pet economy

Hong Kong’s Northern Metropolis is the subject of intense planning with the resumption of land on a huge scale to build effectively a new central business district adjacent to mega-city Shenzhen. Ryan Ip explains that there are still gaps in coordination and financing to take the Northern Metropolis from blueprint to reality.

A tour of Kai Tak Sports Park and its spectacular main stadium with Lead Architect Richard Breslin, Senior Principal & APAC Managing Director, Populous

Catherine Kwai said when she opened her gallery in 1991, she had “less respect than opening a flower shop”

This summary of the February 14 panel discussion is by Edith Terry, editor of AmCham HK e-Magazine. Individual speakers are identified only as ‘panelists’ or ‘audience.’

by Tony Miller

by Paul French

Q&A with Michael J. Enright

“What can one person do?” Samantha Power

by Krish Sundaresan

A conversation with Kin Chan

by Edith Terry

by Stephen Roach

by Lincoln Innes

by Edith Terry

AmCham HK Input and Response