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1. Exports drive country's growth

   Posted Jan 26th 2011, 12:00am by Edward Peters

   ... Chances are that most Hongkongers have, at one time or another, sat down to a lobster dinner or bought some pearls. And chances are that those gems and crustaceans came from Australia. But trade between the Hong Kong and Down Under goes well beyond seafoo ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/736747/exports-drive-countrys-growth
2. BOOK (1974)

   Posted Dec 06th 2009, 12:00am by Edward Peters

   ... The Years of the Hungry Tiger John Gordon Davis (Joseph) To start with a quote from the opening 200-word sentence of John Gordon Davis' The Years of the Hungry Tiger: 'In Hong Kong in the summer-time the sun burns down humid maddening hot on the ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/700398/book-1974
3. Classic investment and a whole lot of fun to boot

   Posted Dec 04th 2009, 12:00am by Edward Peters

   ... Anyone who thought they could pick up a classic car on the cheap in the wake of the global financial downturn is in for a disappointment. Bugattis, Bentleys and similar veteran vehicles simply don't belong in the bargain basement. 'Classic cars ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/700179/classic-investment-and-whole-lot-fun-boot
4. East River Column

   Posted Sep 06th 2009, 12:00am by Edward Peters

   ... East River Column by Chan Sui-jeung Hong Kong University Press HK$250 There is a popular - and erroneous - supposition that as far as Hong Kong is concerned the second world war began with the Japanese assault on December 8, 1941, and ended with the ignom ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/691629/east-river-column
5. Setting the scene

   Posted Sep 04th 2009, 12:00am by Edward Peters

   ... To paraphrase Ralph Waldo Emerson: 'Build a better Mice trap and the world will beat a path to your door.' Those were not the renowned American writer's exact words but the basic principle is one that Hong Kong's two major exhibition v ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/691391/setting-scene
6. Tome raiders

   Posted Jan 18th 2009, 12:00am by Edward Peters

   ... The International Antiquarian Book Fair offers collectors the chance to pick up some rare works, writes Ed Peters In light of the current global economic fiasco there has probably never been a better time to read An Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of t ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/667338/tome-raiders
7. Past masters

   Posted Nov 30th 2008, 12:00am by Edward Peters

   ... In a city that prefers balance sheets to Baudelaire and pays tribute to Mammon rather than Maupassant, Yves Azemar ploughs a lonely literary furrow. From Indosiam, his first-floor antiquarian bookshop in a Hollywood Road tenement, the retired French schoo ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/661946/past-masters
8. Watching Over Hong Kong

   Posted Aug 10th 2008, 12:00am by Edward Peters

   ... after an abortive attempt to capture the steamship Sunning in 1926, who - manacles apart - appear to be taking their ease on deck? How did Edward Lewis come to take up his post of watchman ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/648563/watching-over-hong-kong
9. The Six-Day War of 1899

   Posted Jun 08th 2008, 12:00am by Edward Peters

   ... Ed Peters The Six-Day War of 1899 by Patrick H. Hase Hong Kong University Press, HK$250 Anyone living in the SAR soon forms a mental map of the territory, from Blake Pier and Lockhart Road up to the border via Kadoorie Farm. Similarly, residents compose a ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/640743/six-day-war-1899
10. Business - Companies - LISTINGS

    Control issue clouds Alibaba's Hong Kong IPO

    Posted Aug 16th 2013, 12:00am by George Chen, Ray Chan

    ... basis," said Edward Au, a Deloitte partner specialising in China listings. An agreement between Alibaba and its major investors Yahoo and SoftBank is, however, easier said than done. In 2011, ...

    http://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/1297042/control-issue-clouds-alibabas-hong-kong-ipo

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