“Sound economic fundamentals coupled with a number of positive factors have partially offset the psychological impact of rising interest rates in Hong Kong.” SoundInterestNumbersEconomicFundamentalsImpactRatePsychologicalFactorsRisingInterest RateHong Kong Author:Li Ka-shing
“Ten years before Matrix, ten years before Crouching Tiger - I wanted to do a Hong Kong action movie.” YearsActionWantedTenTigersAction MovieHong Kong Author:Robert Mark Kamen
“Whether I'm in London, Sydney or Hong Kong, it makes no difference. There is always someone who knows me. I must be one of the most unloneliest people in the world!” PeopleKnowsWorldDifferencesLondonKnow MeSydneyHong Kong Author:Roy Orbison
“We have got a CIA station just up the road – the consulate here in Hong Kong – and I am sure they are going to be busy for the next week. And that is a concern I will live with for the rest of my life, however long that happens to be.” LongHappensNextWeekConcernBusyStationsCiaNext WeekHong KongGovernment Spying Author:Edward Snowden
“Rising sea levels will result in tens to hundreds of millions more people flooded each year with a warming of 3 or 4°C. There will be serious risks and increasing pressures for coastal protection in South East Asia (Bangladesh and Vietnam), small islands in the Caribbean and the Pacific, and large coastal cities, such as Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Calcutta, Karachi, Buenos Aires, St. Petersburg, New York, Miami and London.” PeopleYearsLevelsResultsCitiesMillionsRiskSeaNew YorkSeriousPressureSouthProtectionEastLondonIslandsRisingVietnamAsiaPacificMiamiCaribbeanHong KongCalcuttaTokyoBangladeshGlaciersCoastalMumbaiShanghaiEast AsiaBuenos Aires Author:Nicholas Stern
“You will miss out on some near soul mates. This goes for friendships, too. There will be unforgettable people with whom you have shared an excellent evening or a few days. Now they live in Hong Kong, and you will never see them again. That’s just how life is.” PeopleSoulLife IsMissingEveningExcellentMatesSoul MateHong KongUnforgettable Author:Pamela Druckerman
“Service to many leads to greatness-great respect, great satisfaction. Success is not having to wait until someone goes to Hong Kong before you get a camera.” WaitingGreatnessCamerasSatisfactionHong KongGreat Respect Author:Jim Rohn
“In a sense, Britain inadvertently, through its actions in Hong Kong, did more to reduce world poverty than all the aid programs that we've undertaken in the last century.” WorldActionLastsPovertyCenturyProgramAidsBritainHong KongWorld Poverty Author:Paul Romer
“'These boat people,' says the government of Hong Kong, 'they all want to go to America.' Well, I swear I don't know why, do you? I mean, take Vietnam. Why would any Vietnamese come to America after what American did to Vietnam? Don't they remember My Lai, napalm, Sylvester Stallone?” PeopleKnowsWantWellsMeanGovernmentAmericaRememberPoliticsBoatVietnamSwearHong KongVietnameseNapalm Author:Linda Ellerbee
“Eclecticism is the degree zero of contemporary general culture: one listens to reggae, watches a western, eats McDonald's food for lunch and local cuisine for dinner, wears Paris perfume in Tokyo and 'retro' clothing in Hong Kong; knowledge is a matter of TV games. It is easy to find a public for eclectic works.” MatterCultureGamesEasyWatchesTvsDegreesClothesWesternDinnerLocalsContemporaryParisZeroLunchPerfumeMcdonaldsCuisineHong KongReggaeEclecticTokyoRetro Author:Jean-Francois Lyotard
“Hong Kong girls have a genius sense of style. I came back to the States thinking no one here has any individuality. Or cute enough socks.” ThinkingStatesEnoughGirlStyleGeniusIndividualityCuteSockHong Kong Author:Camilla Belle
“I remember vividly one distinct memory of arriving in Hong Kong and being the only blonde haired girl in this sea of international students, and thinking, 'Oh, my God. There's no hiding here.” ThinkingRememberGirlMemoriesSeaStudentsInternationalHidingBlondeArrivingHong Kong Author:Adelaide Clemens
“Every case involving cybercrime that I've been involved in, I've never found a master criminal sitting somewhere in Russia or Hong Kong or Beijing. It always ends up that somebody at the company did something they weren't supposed to do. They read an email, went to a website they weren't supposed to.” EndsFoundCompanyCasesMastersInvolvedSittingCriminalsRussiaEmailWebsiteInvolvingHong KongBeijingCybercrime Author:Frank Abagnale
“I would love mainland Chinese to read my book. There is a Chinese translation which I worked on myself, published in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Many copies have gone into China but it is still banned.” StillsBookGoneChinaChineseCopiesTranslationsBannedHong KongTaiwan Author:Jung Chang
“I put together an iPhone app called TrimIt and released that in July 2011. About a month later, the private fund of the Hong Kong billionaire Li-Kashing cold emailed me and expressed an interest to invest, but they didn't realize I was 15. They thought it was a U.K. company with a team.” TogetherInterestRealizingCompanyTeamMonthsColdFundJulyBillionaireIphoneAppsHong KongApps For Iphone Author:Nick D'Aloisio
“Increasingly, the real estate developers can't get bank loans for their project financing in China. They're now going into the Hong Kong market to raise money in the bond market at very, very high rates, as high as 15, 20 percent.” RealProjectsPercentRaisesRateChinaEstatesLoanFinancingHong KongDevelopersBond Market Author:James Chanos
“Making money, it seems, is all about the velocity of moving it around, so that it can exist in Hong Kong one moment and Wall Street a split second later.” MomentsSeemsMovingStreetsWallMaking MoneySplitsHong KongVelocity Author:Richard Dooling
“Because I became a refugee in Macau during 1941, we had this war in Hong Kong, I fought for the government as an air raid warden for 15 days. Our government surrendered, Hong Kong Government surrendered, so I took a junk and came to Macau in 16 hours and I was a refugee, so that's why I was so much indebted to Macau.” WarGovernmentHoursAirRefugeeJunkHong KongIndebtedWardensMacau Author:Stanley Ho