Two large state-owned enterprises are swooping on the Hong Kong market with their long-awaited IPOs almost simultaneously this week‚ and the prospect of two large offerings is likely to cast a pall over the city’s stock market. The decisions by Sinopec Engineering and China Galaxy Securities to launch their roadshows separately came after the two large SOEs‚ tightly controlled by the Chinese government‚ both managed to secure strong support from some key cornerstone investors. Sinopec Engineering
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The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong Community College CCN1005 English for Academic Studies (Business) I Project Title: Why can Samsung and Apple dominate the smartphone market in Hong Kong? Group: A15 Date of Submission: 14 Dec 2012 Student Number | Student Name | Signature | 12670196A | CHAN Lai Ying‚ Catherine | | 12665305A | TONG Yin Ting‚ Charmaine | | 12668914A | YEUNG Sing Keung‚ Shawn | | Oligopoly is a ubiquitous phenomenon in most‚ if not all‚ free market
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Introduction Teenagers ’ violence is one of the biggest problems facing our society in the new millennium. There are many reasons behind and many people blame that it is mostly due to the overload of violent mass media. Many researches have been done on this topic trying to answer this question. Contributing factors to the problem include violent television programs‚ movies‚ comics and online video games [Chilton: 1999]. A recent research done by four national American health organizations namely
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discuss the stakeholder’s concerns relative to the significance of perceived performance criteria and the related performance outcomes in a construction sector environment located in Hong Kong. The key participants to this study consisted of clients‚ designers‚ consultants and contractors. Using a one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA)‚ the research established nine performance criteria namely profitability‚ care for environmental protection‚ timeliness of project delivery‚ quality of life‚ safety
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Topic: Challenges of Hong Kong’s full service airlines facing today This essay examines the challenges faced by Hong Kong’s full service airlines nowadays. Air transportation serves not only to encourage trade and growth in the tourism industry in Hong Kong‚ but also to improve people ’s mobility and to form a modern society. In this essay‚ full service airline is defined as traditional airline that provides services such as allocated seat‚ transfer of baggage between flights‚ blankets and meals
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John Woo: from Hong Kong to Hollywood‚ The Killer and Face/Off John Woo and his "heroic bloodshed" have revolutionized and rejuvenated the action genre‚ combining melodrama with action to create the male melodrama‚ in which he explores the codes of masculinity while redefining them. Robert Hanke says that "explosive pyrotechnics seem to be privileged over plot‚ narrative or character" (Hanke 41) and yet notes that Jillian Sandell maintains the opinion that Woo does not "celebrate this violence
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An investigation of Occupational accidents at Vinci Park Services Hong Kong Limited BY Lam Wing Shan Kennis 02006251 Human Resources Management Option An Honours Degree Project Submitted to the School of Business in Partial Fulfilment of the Graduation Requirement for the Degree of Bachelor of Business Administration (Honours) Hong Kong Baptist University Hong Kong April 2005 i ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First and foremost‚ I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my supervisor
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Introduction Hong Kong is famous for the hotel industry‚ and many people want to work in this industry. However‚ what really attract them to work for the hotel? Previous study shows that for the Asian countries such as Hong Kong‚ Japan the money is their primary goals for working. (Lam 2001 p.157). In different culture‚ they have different goal they are aim. As the Asian have a higher expect for the money as their concern‚ it is normal‚ because in Asia‚ their income and their expense are never get
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A Study on leisure facilities‚ service and activities are suitable and enough for elderly in Hong Kong? Introduction A small-scale city of China‚ Hong Kong‚ there is estimated 7‚008‚900 people by the end of Year 2008. And more than 13% of it will be the elderly. In view of the older population growing up at full pelt in Hong Kong‚ and for quickly promoting educational and economic capability‚ the demands of elderly leisure facilities and services increase every year. Nowadays the leisure
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(2005) 539–548 Relationship between tourism and cultural heritage management: evidence from Hong Kong$ Bob McKerchera‚*‚ Pamela S. Y. Hoa‚ Hilary du Crosb b a School of Hotel and Tourism Management‚ The Hong Kong Polytechnic University‚ Hung Hom‚ Kowloon‚ Hong Kong Department of Geography‚ The University of Hong Kong/School of Hotel and Tourism Management‚ The Hong Kong Polytechnic University‚ Hong Kong Received 24 November 2003; accepted 4 February 2004 Abstract This paper examines the nature
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