Past Issues

MAY/JUNE 2026 ISSUE

PRESIDENT MESSAGE

COVER STORY

Global geopolitics

Global geopolitics: who’s winning and who’s losing?

CEO INTERVIEW

Joanne Hon

Joanne Hon, managing director, Hong Kong, Equinix

Joanne Hon got into the China business in the late 1990s, when it was considered a minor part of asset management. Her career has led her through a varied range of industries, and now many of them are her customers at Equinix, the world’s largest co-location and interconnection provider, with record first-quarter gross bookings, the largest in the company’s history on an annualized basis. 

BUSINESS

Uber Hong Kong’s “epic journey”

BUSINESS

Hong Kong moonshot

Hong Kong’s moonshot

PEOPLE

Beyond Art Basel

Beyond Art Basel

ECONOMICS

De Kai talks about 'raising AI'

De Kai talks about ‘raising AI’ – and how he was raised

De Kai was born in St. Louis, Missouri, coming to Hong Kong to join the faculty of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in its founding year in 1992. There, he built on his PhD thesis at the University of California, Berkeley. Its forbidding title was Automatic Inference: A Probabilistic Basis for Natural Language Interpretation, but its impact was revolutionary. It provided one of the earliest mathematical frameworks for using machine learning to translate English to Chinese and vice versa, which he developed in 1995 well before the launch of Google Translate for simplified Chinese in 2006 and traditional Chinese in 2007. He trained the model by having it read back copies of bilingual Hong Kong Legislative Council reports. In 2011, De Kai became one of the first 17 founding fellows appointed by the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), the computing equivalent of the Nobel Prize.

US-CHINA

Accuracy Gap in US-China relations

The accuracy gap in US-China relations

Zhengyu ‘Z’ Huang’s new book, Rethinking China, opens with an ominous episode from his tenure as president of the Committee of 100, an influential organization of Chinese Americans. Senior United States State Department officials tell him that the US is engaged in “an existential struggle between democracy and autocracy, our way of life and theirs. As Chinese Americans, you must take a stand.” Huang took a deep breath and began to reflect on the assumptions behind the rhetoric and on the importance of evidence-based analysis in addressing the most consequential geopolitical relationship of the 21st century. In this commentary, he previews several themes from Rethinking China.

CHAMBER

Tracking US-China summit meetings

MARCH/APRIL 2026 ISSUE

PRESIDENT MESSAGE

COVER STORY

A story of West Kowloon

CEO INTERVIEW

Aveline San, CEO and Banking Head, Citi Hong Kong

At the age of 15, she wanted to be a classical pianist, and then she felt an urge to dive into Cantopo and began writing music. Some of Hong Kong’s most famous Cantopop artists have recorded her songs. Nearly three decades later, Aveline San heads banking operations in Hong Kong for Citigroup at a time when decentralised finance (DeFi), based on 24/7 blockchains and tokenised assets is disrupting traditional finance (TradFi) and rapidly converging with Artificial Intelligence (AI). 

HONG KONG

Behind the scenes at the Hong Kong Arts Festival

BUSINESS

Fashion forward

CHINA

The China market in transition

ECONOMICS

Can Hong Kong adopt a Five-Year Plan?

The idea of a Five-Year Plan for Hong Kong may be shocking at first sight. Here one of Hong Kong’s leading political economists explains why the Chinese model of five-year guidelines is distant from its obsolete Soviet prototype, and why it could be a good thing for Hong Kong to develop long-term policy, more closely aligned with national objectives than its current one-year model embedded in the Chief Executive’s policy address.

CHAMBER

Annual business sentiment survey shows 92% intend to stay in Hong Kong

The American Chamber’s annual survey showed a striking return of confidence among participants, with 92% saying they had no intention to move their headquarters from Hong Kong in the next three years. That represented a sharp turnaround from the survey in 2024 and 2025, when 78% and 79% said they had no plans to leave Hong Kong. In 2024, 7% said that they had plans to leave, while in 2025, the number had dropped to 2%.

CHAMBER

2026 “Future Proof” gala concludes with awards for Women of Influence

ADVERTORIAL

JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2026 ISSUE

PRESIDENT MESSAGE

COVER STORY

Four new governors join AmCham board

CEO INTERVIEW

Belinda Au, President of Chubb Life Hong Kong and Head of North Asia

Insurance is not only one of the world’s oldest industries, at 4,000 years, give or take, but also among the largest, with roughly USD 9 trillion in premiums written in 2024. It is also an industry infused with life’s changes. 

CHINA

In search of the soul of the Greater Bay Area

PEOPLE

The accidental director

HONG KONG

Property roars back

HONG KONG

The city’s glamorous new office towers (and a groundscraper)

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 Sino-British agreement to return Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty in 1997. 

PEOPLE

Billie Tsien, architect: Hong Kong felt like “these are my people”

As one of the principal architects behind the Asia Society Hong Kong Center, Billie Tsien has left an indelible mark on a city that, under other circumstances, might have been her home. The Center itself, which opened in 2012, is by now familiar, both for its lively programming and for the beautifully restrained horizontal slab of a building that serves as an entrance and bridge to its barely tamed hillside and the restored colonial structures above, nestled in a profusion of green.

CHINA

The precocious student

By Mehran Gul

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2025 ISSUE

PRESIDENT MESSAGE

COVER STORY

Brave new world

CEO INTERVIEW

“Technology is not nice to have, it’s must have”

You might think you know Google as a search engine or an email provider. “Googling” has, after all, become synonymous with Internet search. But the company’s portfolio is far broader, spanning cloud, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and digital infrastructure to advertising that powers economies. Here, Michael Yue explains how Google is bringing this technology to the city to fulfill its local commitment to “advancing Hong Kong, together”.

CHINA

China’s next Five-Year Plan

BUSINESS

Bringing private healthcare to China, one step at a time

HONG KONG

Why the city is becoming a magnet for sports business

HONG KONG

Who let the dogs out

Dating apps to find your ideal pet companion? Pet influencers who are sought after by pet food brands and more, like @egg_roll328, who has over 180,000 followers on Instagram, or @siu9.2020, with 998,000 followers. Or Google’s original Top Dog, Yoshka, who was the first to visit the café at Google’s Mountain View campus in 2011.

BUSINESS

Engaging and retaining women in the workplace

“If you worked, who would watch the kids?” said by HR head of an organization in Asia 

“Mothers don’t succeed here,” told to a working mother by the HR head of another organization

“What is the point of all this education if you are not going to be working?” asked of a parent considering a career break.

CHAMBER

AmCham visits Chongqing

CHAMBER

Navigating climate policy in a new era

ADVERTORIAL

Hong Kong’s first “university-style” high school

SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2025 ISSUE

PRESIDENT MESSAGE

COVER STORY

HKEX: The right place at the right time

At the beginning of 2024, Hong Kong’s benchmark Hang Seng Index was in a three-year slump. 2023 was the worst year on record, with a 29% loss. Observers resorted to Chinese astrology in a search for optimism. They needn’t have worried. AmChamHK e-Magazine turned to Bonnie Chan Yiting, who became CEO of Hong Kong Exchanges…

CEO INTERVIEW

“Hong Kong is never static”

ECONOMICS

Why Hong Kong’s stock market is booming

Hong Kong’s equity markets are in a steep rally, and AmChamHK e-Magazine turned to one of Hong Kong’s foremost stock experts to find out why. As an investor, Cheah Cheng Hye is legendary. He co-founded and ran Value Partners Group from 1993 until he retired in January 2025. It was the first publicly listed asset…

ECONOMICS

Stablecoins: revolution or dinner party?

US-CHINA

Decoding the summit: A conversation with Scott Kennedy

EDUCATION

How to be a panda parent

Educator, author and journalist Esther Wojcicki – “Woj” for short – is known as the godmother of Silicon Valley for the number of entrepreneurs who passed through her program at Palo Alto High School, where she taught media studies between 1984 to 2020.

CHAMBER

AmCham leadership conducts doorknock in Beijing

On September 8 to 9, a senior delegation from AmCham HK participated in the annual Doorknock to Beijing.  It was a packed two-day schedule, with meetings with Chinese officials, economists, AmCham China, and a visit to the US Embassy.

ADVERTORIAL

The 138th Canton Fair: A global trade feast

JULY/AUGUST 2025 ISSUE

PRESIDENT MESSAGE

COVER STORY

Doing nothing is not an option

Trade expert Sally Peng talks about the impact of the US tariffs and what companies can do about them

CEO INTERVIEW

How to re-invent an icon

TECHNOLOGY

Building a tech ecosystem is like opening a “shopping mall”

Serial entrepreneur Jack Lau uses the analogy of a shopping mall to describe Hong Kong’s growing tech ecosystem because going from one merchant to 100 shops takes a long time. “But after 100 to go to 500 shops, it’s fairly easy,” he says, in conversation with AmChamHK e-Magazine.

HONG KONG

Hong Kong’s northern vision

By Ryan Ip

ENVIRONMENT

Cascale meets Asia-Pacific

US-CHINA

How China is building a new world

In 2025, the trade war that the US began with China in 2018 has adopted many of US President Trump’s trademark transactional tactics of large opening bids followed by negotiation. China, which has faced technology restrictions as well as tariff threats, has adopted its own form of hardball negotiations.

CHAMBER

AmCham’s Mini Business America Camp exposes junior high students to American business

AmCham’s Mini Business America (MBA) Camp had two inaugural sessions from June 16-20 and July 7-11. Leveraging on American companies who are Chamber members, it was designed as a boot camp for eighth and ninth grade students interested in business careers. The participants represented a cross-section of local and international secondary schools.

BUSINESS

China joins the race in world-class logistics

ADVERTORIAL

Redefining learning

MAY/JUNE 2025 ISSUE

PRESIDENT MESSAGE

CEO INTERVIEW

How to become a change maker in a legacy family business

BUSINESS

Shooting the hoops in Asia-Pacific

NBA Asia’s Wayne Chang talks NBA Hoop Parks, the globalization of basketball and the Brooklyn Nets and Phoenix Suns in Macau

HONG KONG

A pioneering art gallerist looks back

US-CHINA

Hong Kong’s new jewel

CHINA

AmCham HK’s annual China conference

Policy heavyweights and China business veterans

HONG KONG

How the Kai Tak Sports Park will transform Hong Kong

by the team at Kai Tak Sports Park

CHAMBER

Hong Kong tourism 2.0

ADVERTORIAL

The business traveller’s ultimate guide to Dallas

MARCH/APRIL 2025 ISSUE

TECHNOLOGY

The DeepSeek effect

HONG KONG

Caught in a trade war

by Tony Miller

HONG KONG

In the foxhole: Navigating the new tariff wars

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.’

PEOPLE

“Asia’s Got Talent”: How a Chinese-American descendent of Mencius became Hong Kong’s cultural doyenne

CHAMBER

Women transforming leadership

JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2025 ISSUE

PRESIDENT MESSAGE

COVER STORY

TTI’s David Butts becomes AmCham’s 52nd chairman

US-CHINA

Why engagement ended

US-CHINA

What “to-do” about China?

PEOPLE

A woman of influence

An interview with Felicity McRobb

CHAMBER

Celebrating excellence

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2024 ISSUE
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2024 ISSUE

PRESIDENT MESSAGE

ENVIRONMENT

Explaining the new global pact on plastic

BUSINESS

Trail Hero: “When I say there’s more we can do, number one is to be more creative.”

by Michael Maddess

CHINA

After the Third Plenum: “They haven’t killed the bird, but they’ve made the cage smaller”

HONG KONG

Hong Kong’s witness to D-Day

“What can one person do?” Samantha Power

PEOPLE

TigerfireShip: An entrepreneur’s journey

JULY/AUGUST 2024 ISSUE

PRESIDENT MESSAGE

CEO INTERVIEW

“It’s a great Hong Kong success story. And I don’t think it could have been done anywhere else but Hong Kong”

HONG KONG

Developing Hong Kong into a highvalue medical treatment hub

CHAMBER

Hong Kong in a thorny situation

US-CHINA

“I owe my future to that experience in Hong Kong”

A profile of Dennis Wilder and the Georgetown University Initiative for US-China Dialogue on Global Issues

BUSINESS

“Our type of drink is a very new concept in Asia”

CHAMBER

AmCham visits Shanghai

MARCH/APRIL 2024 ISSUE

PRESIDENT MESSAGE

COVER STORY

20 years of Women of Influence

CEO INTERVIEW

Helping women join the workforce in India and South Korea

PEOPLE

Splash Foundation

PEOPLE

Women in Sports Empowered (WISE)

CHAMBER

AmCham HK’s 2024 members business sentiment survey

HONG KONG

Where is Hong Kong going?

JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2024 ISSUE

PRESIDENT MESSAGE

CEO INTERVIEW

Sustaining a 218-year-old brand

ECONOMICS

A match of convenience or a match made in heaven?

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2023 ISSUE

PRESIDENT MESSAGE

COVER STORY

Hong Kong as the “cultural hub of Asia”

CEO INTERVIEW

The multi-tasker

CHINA

How serious is China’s economic slowdown?

TECHNOLOGY

Talking about Web3

HONG KONG

Chief Executive’s 2023 Policy Address

CHAMBER

AmCham Ball 2023

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