2018/10/11 | Meeting with Prof Pascal Perez, Director of SMART, University of Wollongong, Australia Professor Pascal Perez, Director of the SMART Infrastructure Facility at the University of Wollongong in Australia, visited the Chamber on 11 October where he was received by Behzad Mirzaei, Chairman of the Asia & Africa Committee, and members. Professor Perez discussed his work at SMART, which focuses on applied infrastructure research in areas including transport, water, energy and economics. Participants also discussed the challenges of introducing smart city infrastructure to the Hong Kong and Mainland China markets
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2018/10/09 | Meeting with Hokkaido Vice Governor Yasuhiro Tsuji, Vice Governor of Hokkaido Prefecture, accompanied by Ryoichi Ito, Director-General of JETRO Hong Kong, and other representatives, called on the Chamber on 9 October. The delegation was welcomed by Chamber CEO Shirley Yuen and Chairman of the Asia & Africa Committee Behzad Mirzaei. Tsuji gave an update on the latest developments in Hokkaido, and encouraged the Chamber to send a delegation to the prefecture to explore investment opportunities in tourism, trading, manufacturing and services.
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2018/09/27 | Asia & Africa Committee Meeting - 27 Sep 2018 The Asia and Africa Committee held its Committee meeting on 27 September. Mr Tengku Sirajuzzaman bin Tengku Mohamed Ariffin, Consul-General of Malaysia, shared the latest developments in Malaysia with the members. For the Committee’s next overseas mission, the secretariat mentioned that the mission was supported by the Honorary Consul General of Morocco and the Ghana’s ambassador to China. And the Mission was tentatively scheduled on 24 to 31 March, and it would be structured as four days in Morocco and four days in Ghana.
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