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From the Chairman
Inside Legco
From the CEO
Cover Story
Drafting an
e-Commerce Blueprint for SMEs
Special Features
HKGCC Scores High Marks
in Members' Survey
O'Rear's View
Revised
Budget Outlook
Still Needs Work
China Economic Update
China's Auto Industry
Moves into the Fast Lan
Business
HKSAR Firms in
'Optimistic Mood'
The
Air We Breathe
Directing
Customers Your Way
Franchising
Quality
Career
Prospects Still Gloomy
Local Printing Press
Limited
Chamber Programmes
Sino-US Relations
Taiwanese Firms Looking to Benefit from CEPA
IT Applications at Hong Kong Jockey Club
Reviving Our Fragrant Harbour
Chamber Programmes
Luncheon with Liaoning Governor Bo Xilai
Luncheon with
China's First Astronaut Yang Liwei
Cocktail in Honour of Asia Africa Consuls General
Chamber
Happy Hour
Chamber in Action
Moves into the Fast Lan
December 2003 Issue
Drafting an
e-Commerce Blueprint
for SMEs
A recent Chamber campaign examines why Asia's sharpest
entrepreneurs continue to drag their feet when it comes to using the Internet to reduce
costs and do business more efficiently
Hong Kong SMEs have long been bashed for living in the information technology dark ages. Survey after survey puts them behind their South Korean and Singaporean counterparts when it comes to using electronic commerce to boost their business.
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HKSAR Firms in
'Optimistic Mood'
Prospects for businesses in Hong Kong are looking up, reveals HKGCC's annual Business Prospects Survey
The prospects for Hong Kong's economy are at their brightest in years,
according to the Chamber's Annual Business Prospects Survey, unveiled earlier this month.
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HKGCC Scores High Marks
in Members' Survey
Members rate the Chamber's business services highly, but they
would like to see more leisure and social events, a recent survey shows
Sino-US Relations
"C
hina has come a long, long way since I first visited on business in 1974," U.S. Ambassador to China, Clark T Randt, told members at a Chamber Distinguished Speakers Series luncheon on November 11. "Who would have thought that a mere 29 years after my first visit, Beijing would suffer from perpetual urban bumper-to-bumper gridlock; boast of a car-owning, cell phone-toting middle class; have two public stock exchanges; ...membership in the WTO; and successfully launch a man into space." More >>
China's Auto Industry
Moves into the Fast Lane
China's vehicles industry finally switched into high gear in 2002 after several years of sluggish growth. In the first nine months of this year, total vehicle production (cars, vans, lorries, busses, etc) in China jumped 36 percent over the same period last year, while sales rose 30 percent. Production of private cars surged an astounding 87 percent, while sales soared 69 percent. The robust development of the Mainland economy is expected to further push up demand for vehicles, to the extent that Hong Kong businesses really can't afford to ignore it.
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Taiwanese Firms
Looking
to Benefit from CEPA
Taiwanese businesses are carefully examining how they can take advantage of the Hong Kong and Mainland Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement, prominent business leaders said at the joint annual meeting of the Taiwan Federation of Industries and HKGCC on November 20.
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IT Applications at
Hong Kong Jockey Club
With 80 percent of all punters placing their bets at race meetings within five minutes of a horse race starting, the Hong Kong Jockey Club needs to ensure it can accommodate the hundreds of thousands of hopeful gamblers flawlessly. To do this, it employs a small army of IT staff to keep its IT system tuned to perfection.
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Reviving Our Fragrant Harbour
Members on the Environment Committee's
tour of Stonecutters Island Sewage Treatment Works see firsthand how efforts to reduce the
amount of sewage being dumped into Victoria Harbour are progressing
Franchising
Quality
Representatives of national franchise associations from around the
world gathered in Kuala Lumpur in late September to discuss the development of franchising
and to exchange views on improving the quality of practitioners. More >>
Local Printing Press Limited
Wayne
Leung is not your average printer. A banker by profession, a sailor by heart and a
chevalier of the arts, the easy-going managing director switched careers to take up the
reins of Local Printing Press Limited and Ye Olde Printerie three years ago. More >>
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Revised Budget Outlook With no significant reduction in government spending planned for the next five years, the Financial Secretary may need to pull a few rabbits out of his hat if the budget is to be controlled Shortly after Financial Secretary Henry Tang Ying-yen's October 22 speech to the Legislative Council on the SAR's economy and fiscal situation, the government released first-half figures for the budget deficit. The April-September data show that revenues fell 5.6 percent from the same period in 2002, while spending rose 0.7 percent. More >> |
The Air We Breathe Government encourages businesses to improve the indoor air quality of their offices Three million people die each year from air pollution related illnesses, according to the World Health Organisation reports. Given that indoor air can be two to five times more polluted than the outdoor air, indoor air pollution should be a serious concern for us all, as it can cause lethargy, upper respiratory diseases, weaken our immune system, and cause cancer. More >> |
The Chamber's online Hong Kong Business Directory is
a gold mine of information and opportunities. ALFRED CHAN explains how members can get the most benefit from
what is often praised as one of the best business directories in town On an average day, the Chamber's Hong Kong Business Directory gets just under 10,000 hits, making it the most popular section of the Chamber's Web site. More >> |
A recent survey
shows that one in four workers in Hong Kong say they could lose their jobs in the coming
year Despite Hong Kong's economic recovery gaining momentum, and signs that the global economy is also picking up steam, there's still plenty of pessimism flowing across the job front in Hong Kong. More >> |
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