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Political system at odds
 Hong Kong's convention centre is usually a cathedral of commerce. Buyers and manufacturers flock to this large complex, which hosts trade fairs of every description. A quiet meeting one Sunday in the middle of December had none of the usual hustle-bustle. But the gathering of devotees for the Hong Kong Asia Pacific Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference may have been the most important event of the year ...more
GROWTH:
Trade drives an impressive recovery
Three years after the Asian financial crisis began to unravel, giving modern Hong Kong a rare taste of recession and unemployment, trade has driven an impressive recovery ...more
FINANCE:
An ambitious leap into cyberspace
On the ground floor of the Bank of East Asia's elegant head office a veritable army of cashiers awaits the custom of a few visitors brandishing cheques and lodgement forms ...more
EXCHANGE:
Bolstering its position
It's Big Bang time for Hong Kong's financial markets. As the exchange prepares to end minimum commissions by 2002 and - perhaps earlier - to embrace the wave of consolidation now taking place among stock exchanges worldwide ...more
DESIGN:
Cyberspace clouded by feudal notions of land
In 1997, Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong's chief executive, proposed in his Digital 21 IT Strategy "to make Hong Kong a leader, not a follower, in the information world of tomorrow, in order that Hong Kong could retain its competitive edge ...more
ENTERPRISE:
Dogged by controversy
K.S. Lo, who heads the listing committee of Hong Kong's Nasdaq-style second board, ought to have been basking in glory after the launch of the Growth Enterprise Market late last year ...more
CTI:
Plucky upstart joins the big boys
Ricky Wong, a trendy 38-year-old, seems an unlikely hero for telecommunications liberalisation. Yet in 1992, it was his start-up company that first challenged Hong Kong's then telecoms monopoly ...more
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