White CollarIt is time for Hong Kong’s youth to explore a career path in the Middle East
Former broker Chim Pui-chung may have never travelled to the Middle East, but his 22-year-old grandson Oscar Chim has found a niche in Dubai
Many youth from Hong Kong love to travel the world, but mainly to enjoy the sights and sounds and to indulge in a bit of shopping. Now it is time they try something more adventurous and consider working overseas to gain some real world experience.
Perhaps in a place other than the US or Europe; something exotic like the Middle East.
Oscar Chim, 22, the grandson of the well known broker and former lawmaker Chim Pui-chung, is among the few Hong Kong youth who have shown an interest in developing a career in the Arab world.
While his grandfather has never travelled to the Middle East, the young Chim is now working in Dubai, the heart of Islamic finance in the Middle East.
This should come as no surprise as Chim was interested in learning foreign languages from a very young age and was enrolled at the Middlebury-Monterrey Language Academy in Vermont for intensive summer language immersion programmes. He started with French at 11 and followed it with Arabic a year later.