https://www.scmp.com/rss/2236/feed Peter Wong is chairman of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, and The Hongkong Bank Foundation. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Hong Kong has repeatedly found itself in cycles of change and adaptation. Recent years have struck economic blows and the world we face looks quite different to what it was 10, or even five, years ago. We will come through stronger but there needs to be a focus on talent development and soft skills, such as problem-solving, collaborative working, creativity and cultural intelligence, to enable the city’s connector role which will lead to our collective success. Hong Kong has often been described... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/hong-kong-opinion/article/3268899/tech-knowledge-important-hong-kongs-advantage-soft-skills?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/hong-kong-opinion/article/3268899/tech-knowledge-important-hong-kongs-advantage-soft-skills?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 05 Jul 2024 01:30:08 +0000 It has been wonderful to see the return of Hong Kong’s vibrancy over the past few months. The government has done well to attract investors, businesses and tourists from across the world by launching a range of campaigns around the theme of “Hong Kong is back”. These efforts help retain our city’s status as an international hub for business and a destination for visitors. At this crucial moment, when there is a pressing need to strengthen our rebound by promoting Hong Kong’s unique advantages... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3224043/hong-kongs-young-talent-strength-must-be-strategically-nurtured?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3224043/hong-kongs-young-talent-strength-must-be-strategically-nurtured?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 15 Jun 2023 08:30:07 +0000 Hong Kong is slowly emerging from the fifth wave of the coronavirus pandemic, and the government has committed to relaxing some of the restrictions that have isolated us from the rest of the world. But despite the improved outlook, there is still much to be done. Although we can justifiably hope that we have passed the turning point, many people and businesses are still struggling: their financial and personal resources are exhausted after more than two years of lockdowns and isolation, and they... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3173126/hong-kong-survival-mode-must-also-plan-new-economic-growth?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3173126/hong-kong-survival-mode-must-also-plan-new-economic-growth?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 06 Apr 2022 19:30:26 +0000 In a global economic landscape battered by Covid-19, China’s Greater Bay Area development plan is a beacon of opportunity and growth for all of Asia. And as China forges ahead with the plan to integrate Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau into a globally competitive world-class metropolis, the corridor for trade, investment and innovation is likely to expand between China and Asean. The pandemic and growing regionalisation in recent years has added momentum to the trend of China-based manufacturers... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3135253/how-asean-can-grab-opportunities-offered-greater-bay-area?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3135253/how-asean-can-grab-opportunities-offered-greater-bay-area?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 30 May 2021 10:45:08 +0000 Over the past two decades, technology has altered many industries – music, retail and transport to name but a few. Yet, during this period of technological disruption, financial services have continued to grow. Banking has always been about technology. The 1970s brought us ATMs and credit cards, the 1980s, debit cards, and the 1990s, internet banking and e-commerce. The pace of technological change has accelerated over the past decade or so, with the explosive growth of smartphones and the... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3023810/traditional-banks-fintech-newcomers-offer-opportunities-not-threats?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3023810/traditional-banks-fintech-newcomers-offer-opportunities-not-threats?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 22 Aug 2019 06:00:03 +0000 The Pearl River Delta is at the epicentre of China’s shift towards hi-tech and innovative manufacturing and services, and ranks among the most economically vibrant areas in China – if not the world. Beijing’s unveiling of the “Greater Bay Area” development plan starts the next chapter of this region’s extraordinary story. The vision is both ambitious and sweeping: its goal is to shift this regional economic dynamo up a gear, creating a powerhouse of global significance by strengthening economic... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/hong-kong/article/2188826/how-greater-bay-area-can-supercharge-economic?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/hong-kong/article/2188826/how-greater-bay-area-can-supercharge-economic?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 06 Mar 2019 07:30:48 +0000 Within our lifetimes, China has transformed from an agrarian economy to a world-beating digital and consumption-led powerhouse, driven by smartphone-wallet shoppers. This year marks the 40th anniversary of China’s economic reform and opening. In December 1978, China’s “open door” policy signposted a turning point in its economic management and trajectory. Over the period, the character of China’s economic management has evolved from being strictly centrally planned, export oriented and state led... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/2139778/chinas-four-decade-route-worlds-no-1-economy?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/2139778/chinas-four-decade-route-worlds-no-1-economy?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 31 Mar 2018 15:00:45 +0000 The emergence of an East-East trade and investment corridor, boosted by the significant and largely unexpected economic and political events of 2016, is expected to fundamentally alter the present world order. Throughout history, Asia has accounted for the largest share of the global gross domestic product: the “Great Divergence”, during which countries in the West outstripped the rest of the world economically and technologically, was an anomaly. In the 20th century, the world’s economic centre... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2087687/made-asia-asia-how-rise-its-middle-class-remaking-world?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2087687/made-asia-asia-how-rise-its-middle-class-remaking-world?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 16 Apr 2017 02:00:14 +0000 In the wake of more isolationist political thinking in the West, with many developed economies turning inward, China is reaching out, seeking stronger trade and investment links with its economic partners. China’s “One Belt, One Road” is a prime example of this reaching-out policy. Under the initiative, China aims to trigger demand for materials and goods at home by investing in strategic infrastructure projects abroad, developing economic ties along its old Silk Road to Europe and along newer... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2059916/how-chinas-belt-and-road-transforming-asean?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2059916/how-chinas-belt-and-road-transforming-asean?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 08 Jan 2017 01:00:00 +0000 The success of the “Belt and Road” initiative will not be a solo effort for China – it needs a chorus of supporting partnerships from participating countries. Hong Kong’s strengths in finance, logistics, trade and market infrastructure allow it to play a critical role to give this initiative momentum. “Belt and Road” initiative recipients, for their part, will support infrastructure project development and additional local financing, which in turn will help regional debt market... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1956334/hong-kong-dealmaker-chinas-one-belt-one-road?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1956334/hong-kong-dealmaker-chinas-one-belt-one-road?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 29 May 2016 05:00:45 +0000 In the beginning, it was a tourists’ currency. Then, traders and bankers began using it. Now, the renminbi is about to take another leap forward, into the realms of the world’s central banks. On November 30, the International Monetary Fund announced that the renminbi would be included in its basket of so-called special drawing rights, thus putting the Chinese currency on a par with main reserve currencies such as the US dollar and the euro. The move represents a major step along the renminbi’s... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1887996/renminbis-inclusion-imf-currency-basket-global-financial?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1887996/renminbis-inclusion-imf-currency-basket-global-financial?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 07 Dec 2015 07:00:30 +0000 The Pearl River Delta was once dubbed the "factory floor" of the world. These days, however, it is more accurate to call the area "Silicon Delta" - a hi-tech and innovation hub for the world's second-largest economy. For the past 35 years, Guangdong has been at the forefront of China's economic development and reform efforts. Since the late 1970s, when China began to open its economy to international trade and investment, the cities around the mouth of the Pearl River - Guangzhou, Shenzhen,... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1864553/how-chinas-pearl-river-delta-went-worlds-factory-floor-hi?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1864553/how-chinas-pearl-river-delta-went-worlds-factory-floor-hi?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 06 Oct 2015 09:45:45 +0000 In response to the expected flat growth of world trade and moderating economic activity at home, China is packaging a series of initiatives to help bolster both. Its recently announced "One Belt, One Road" plan embraces twin goals to tackle these challenges. "One Belt" refers to the economic belt along the traditional Silk Road connecting China with Europe. The "One Road" is the new Maritime Silk Road between China, Southeast Asia and Africa. The aim is for China to invest in the infrastructure... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1807071/hong-kongs-strength-financial-services-can-serve-nations?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1807071/hong-kongs-strength-financial-services-can-serve-nations?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 25 May 2015 01:00:45 +0000 The article "Why is Jetstar so keen to become a Hong Kong airline?" (April 9) struck me as a little odd. The purpose of the piece seems to be more of an attempt to instil the notion that the introduction of further home-based low-cost carriers is a "Trojan horse", when, in fact, the opposite is true. Air rights protect the interests of Hong Kong, not those of incumbent airlines. Engaging the public in a high-brow discussion peppered with industry-specific detail is nothing more than a scare... https://www.scmp.com/comment/letters/article/1774225/fears-raised-over-jetstars-market-entry-only-scare-tactic?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/letters/article/1774225/fears-raised-over-jetstars-market-entry-only-scare-tactic?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 23 Apr 2015 05:19:47 +0000 The Swiss National Bank dropped a bombshell last Thursday when it removed the Swiss franc's peg to the euro. In the wake of its announcement, a cacophony of opinions and speculation has emerged on why the bank chose to cut its ties with the euro. These are mostly directed towards its desire to cut loose prior to the European Central Bank's much-anticipated quantitative easing policy. Given that the franc quickly rose 25 per cent against the US dollar and 30 per cent against the euro,... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1688312/dollar-peg-still-right-choice-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1688312/dollar-peg-still-right-choice-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 21 Jan 2015 06:17:57 +0000 The latest data from the International Monetary Fund shows that, in terms of purchasing power parity, China's gross domestic product in 2014 is estimated to have surpassed that of the US. That has made for uncomfortable reading for those long aware of China's rise, but who have prided themselves on America's continued domination. Of course, in terms of nominal GDP, in which exchange rates are taken into account, American output is still higher than China's. And America's per capita GDP remains... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1674169/chinese-economy-will-overtake-americas-thanks-chinese-values?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1674169/chinese-economy-will-overtake-americas-thanks-chinese-values?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 05 Jan 2015 09:30:00 +0000 Guangdong today, like many of China's manufacturing centres, finds itself squeezed between its underperforming rural hinterland and an industrial heartland struggling to cope with rising wages at home and increased competition from abroad. China's manufacturing-heavy provinces suffered the sharpest growth slowdown in the first quarter, and Guangdong was no exception. Guangdong has started to lose its regional top rank in terms of gross domestic product, a position it has held for more than two... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1667755/guangdong-looks-inland-next-growth-spurt?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1667755/guangdong-looks-inland-next-growth-spurt?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 22 Dec 2014 09:45:00 +0000 A discouraging government report released recently says that the number of daily smokers in Hong Kong has increased marginally, while the number of legitimate cigarette sales has gone down. This suggests that, regardless of the tax on tobacco, the government's current smoking policy isn't working. Anti-smoking groups suggest that, if the government were to raise the tax, from 62 to 75 per cent, it would get people to stop smoking. The same argument has been used repeatedly for decades. Yet, with... https://www.scmp.com/article/737241/lifestyle-choices-go-smoke-tax-rises?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/737241/lifestyle-choices-go-smoke-tax-rises?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 30 Jan 2011 16:00:00 +0000 FOR PETER WONG Wai-kwan and Theresa Callejo, it wasn't exactly love at first sight. In fact, Callejo says she rather disliked him. 'He seemed strange to me,' she says. ' I felt uneasy around him.' As for Wong, he can't remember making any connection. In fact, he can hardly remember her at all. Tomorrow, however, like thousands of other couples across Hong Kong, they will spend a romantic Valentine's Day together, taking in a movie before drifting away to a cosy candlelit dinner. Unlike most... https://www.scmp.com/article/444282/paradise-found?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/444282/paradise-found?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 12 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000 If Peter Wong Tung-shun is disappointed not to have a seat on the main board of Standard Chartered Bank, he is doing a good job disguising it. But notwithstanding the cheerful protests to the contrary from Mr Wong - who said the decision was at his own request - questions remain after yesterday's announcement. The decision means the man responsible for delivering a little under half of the group's profits, as well as taking charge of the vital expansion proposed in the China market, will not... https://www.scmp.com/article/370365/one-voice-should-be-heard?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/370365/one-voice-should-be-heard?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 31 Jan 2002 16:00:00 +0000 NEW National People's Congress (NPC) deputies should introduce a more transparent operation, says Peter Wong Man-kong. An incumbent deputy for the Eighth NPC, Mr Wong said new deputies should be more accountable as they were selected by a 424-strong panel in Hong Kong. He envisaged meetings of NPC deputies being gradually opened to the public. 'The meetings of the district boards and the municipal councils are open most of the time,' he said. 'The NPC should also adopt a similar... https://www.scmp.com/article/225243/transparency-call-new-deputies?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/225243/transparency-call-new-deputies?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 03 Jan 1998 16:00:00 +0000 A MOTHER saved her three-year-old son from the jaws of a mongrel at a Yuen Long village yesterday. Fon Cheung Lai-yu, 36, said Fon Chun-lung had been bitten and forced on to the floor by the dog, which belongs to a friend who often visits her. The boy had apparently kicked the animal as it approached him. 'Although my son is naughty, he is very frightened of dogs. I don't understand why he was so brave to kick the dog which he knew was very fierce. Perhaps he wanted to defend himself,'... https://www.scmp.com/article/123788/mongrel-savages-three-year-old?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/123788/mongrel-savages-three-year-old?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 08 Jul 1995 16:00:00 +0000 THE Japanese Prime Minister has no intention of visiting Hong Kong to apologise for war crimes or pay compensation to those who suffered at the hands of invading military forces during World War II. According to Kimihiro Ishikane, consul and head of the Japanese General Affairs Department, Japan already apologised to Hong Kong people two years ago. 'Whether to visit Hong Kong to apologise is of secondary importance. Indeed the policy speech made by the former prime minister, Morihiro Hosokawa,... https://www.scmp.com/article/123690/japan-firm-over-war-crimes-apology?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/123690/japan-firm-over-war-crimes-apology?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 07 Jul 1995 16:00:00 +0000 HONG KONG student Peter Wong King-hang recently became the first Asian student to audition for a music scholarship offered by the University of Warwick. That is not the only way Peter managed to make history: his audition was done via video-conferencing in a studio at the Hongkong Telecom office in Central - another first. Peter, who is finishing his last year at Li Po Chun United World College, played the flute in front of two professors and was congratulated for his fine half-hour... https://www.scmp.com/article/122922/audition-difference?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/122922/audition-difference?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 30 Jun 1995 16:00:00 +0000 SHARK nets erected at three New Territories beaches are no guarantee of safety, a Regional Council shark prevention officer warned yesterday. Chairman of the Regional Council's Ad-hoc Committee on Shark Prevention, Wan Yuet-kau, said the multi-million-dollar nets were still being tested, with results to be determined later this year. The council bought shark nets for Silverstrand Beach and Clear Water Bay Beach at Sai Kung, and Kadoorie Beach at Tuen Mun, in May last year. The... https://www.scmp.com/article/119886/shark-nets-no-safety-guarantee?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/119886/shark-nets-no-safety-guarantee?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 03 Jun 1995 16:00:00 +0000 THE operation to transfer 1,500 Vietnamese from Whitehead Detention Centre to High Island was condemned last night by refugee concern groups, while legislators questioned the heavy-handedness of the police. Refugee Concern spokesman Rob Brook said the use of tear gas on the rioting Vietnamese - and the possibility of bringing in police dogs to track down escapees this morning - was provocative. 'More than 70 per cent of the refugees were women and children,' he said. 'To use tear gas... https://www.scmp.com/article/118440/clashes-convey-wrong-image?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/118440/clashes-convey-wrong-image?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 20 May 1995 16:00:00 +0000 SHOPKEEPERS are still selling software showing nude 'pictures' of Vivian Chow Wai-man, despite High Court action taken by the Canto-pop star. Chow filed a writ claiming damages from the Easyfinder magazine after it published the mock-up pictures taken from floppy diskettes. Several outlets in Mongkok, Tsuen Wan and Shamshuipo said they would not sell the disks, which show Chow's head superimposed on the body of a Japanese model, both clothed and in various states of undress, as they wanted... https://www.scmp.com/article/117555/star-sues-set-record-straight?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/117555/star-sues-set-record-straight?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 13 May 1995 16:00:00 +0000 SINGAPORE has announced it will hang 22-year-old Tong Ching-man on Friday - its third execution of a Hong Kong resident this year. The Singapore Government sent a telegram to Tong's family at Tai Po late on Thursday advising them of the execution date. Tong, convicted of drug trafficking, was 18 when she was arrested at Singapore's Changi airport while travelling from Hong Kong to Brussels in December 1988. She will be the second Hong Kong woman to hang in Singapore this year after... https://www.scmp.com/article/114415/singapore-sets-date-hang-drug-trafficker?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/114415/singapore-sets-date-hang-drug-trafficker?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 15 Apr 1995 16:00:00 +0000 TWO leading pager companies could be on the road to big bucks by offering their clients a novel new service . . . a police speed trap alert. Times Paging and BB Telecom keep tabs on police operations and tell their customers where to beware of cameras and radar guns. And a Sunday Morning Post test drive discovered the system was right on target last week. Times Paging staff said their service included printing out a message in Chinese. The warning coyly advises drivers to 'be careful of'... https://www.scmp.com/article/113566/drivers-get-message?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/113566/drivers-get-message?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 08 Apr 1995 16:00:00 +0000 TRANSPORT administrators claim maverick bus operators are running illegal routes in Kowloon and the New Territories . . . but say there is little they can do to stop them. Small operators are skirting transport laws to run buses on speedy, non-stop routes from Tuen Mun to urban Kowloon. The Transport Department says the operators are using legal loopholes, while others rely on the lack of penalties, to whisk New Territories residents to work faster than the Kowloon Motor Bus (KMB)... https://www.scmp.com/article/112729/illegal-buses-runaway-hit-tuen-mun?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/112729/illegal-buses-runaway-hit-tuen-mun?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 01 Apr 1995 16:00:00 +0000 A TUEN MUN District Board member has admitted helping to arrange overseas tours without a licence and using a district service centre to do so. The Tuen Mun District Service Centre, whose committee members include district board members Willy Ng Wai-cho, Chu Cho-yan and Sung King-fai, has arranged tours in conjunction with the Eternal East Tours travel agency, both sides have confirmed. The Sunday Morning Post signed up at the service centre for a two-day tour to the mainland. The receipt... https://www.scmp.com/article/112753/tuen-mun-officials-offered-illegal-tours?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/112753/tuen-mun-officials-offered-illegal-tours?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 01 Apr 1995 16:00:00 +0000 TUNG WAH hospitals chairman Deborah Kwan Siu Lai-kwan washed away the bitter taste of a week of controversy with champagne . . . while the old people in the group's caged homes struggled through another miserable night. Mrs Kwan rolled up to the Regent Hotel on Friday evening for the group's charity ball in her white and beige Rolls-Royce, arriving early to greet directors and invited guests before taking her place beside Chief Secretary Anson Chan Fang On-sang in the hotel's glittering... https://www.scmp.com/article/107223/caged-charity-champagne?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/107223/caged-charity-champagne?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 18 Feb 1995 16:00:00 +0000 GOVERNMENT staff took more than $5,000 from a man's bank account without notifying him in a mistaken attempt to retrieve welfare payments, it was revealed yesterday. Social Welfare Department (SWD) spokesman Donald Lam Ping-kuen admitted staff had bungled last month when they took the cash from Wilson Leung Tit-fung, who was not on a welfare programme. Insurance underwriter Mr Leung said the officials took $5,408 from his Hongkong Bank account to recoup money paid to his grandmother, who... https://www.scmp.com/article/106420/government-wrongfully-took-cash-account?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/106420/government-wrongfully-took-cash-account?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 11 Feb 1995 16:00:00 +0000 TRAGEDY has turned to happiness for paraplegic Law Ka-man. Just days after thieves robbed him of the cash he was to use to buy a new wheelchair, donors have stepped in to hand over nearly $50,000. Their generosity comes after the Social Welfare Department gave Mr Law a cheque to replace the $30,000 he had borrowed from a friend to buy the chair. Mr Law was robbed at knifepoint by two men outside his Choi Wan Estate home last Thursday. Police are still investigating the case. But the... https://www.scmp.com/article/105645/plight-turns-delight-wheelchair-man?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/105645/plight-turns-delight-wheelchair-man?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 04 Feb 1995 16:00:00 +0000 ANIMAL welfare organisations have condemned the Government for its slow response in raiding a network of unregistered dog farms, after officials turned up to find empty cages and locked, unmanned kennels last week. The operators of the unregistered kennels on the outskirts of Yuen Long acted swiftly to remove the diseased animals before an Agriculture and Fisheries Department (AFD) squad raided the sites last Monday. One week after the Sunday Morning Post revealed the plight of hundreds of... https://www.scmp.com/article/105546/groups-condemn-slow-response-illegal-dog-farms?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/105546/groups-condemn-slow-response-illegal-dog-farms?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 04 Feb 1995 16:00:00 +0000 HONG KONG pager-owners are just not getting the right message, according to disgruntled users who put wrong phone numbers, garbled addresses and week-old Mark Six numbers at the top of their list of paging pains. More than one million subscribers with over 20 companies receive a daily blitzkrieg of bleeps throughout the territory . . . and now they are sending their own less-than-happy messages to the communications giants. Hutchison Paging customer service senior manager May Cheung said... https://www.scmp.com/article/105582/fuming-users-want-pager-firms-get-message?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/105582/fuming-users-want-pager-firms-get-message?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 04 Feb 1995 16:00:00 +0000 HUNDREDS of purebred dogs are being kept in appalling conditions in unregistered New Territories dog farms - one operated by a dog handler with the Correctional Services Department (CSD). About 10 kennels surround the small village of Tin Sum Tsuen, on the outskirts of Yuen Long, and residents say the farms have been breeding and supplying fashionable collies, sheepdogs and German shepherds to mainland buyers. The dogs are crammed into kennels, including some so small the animals barely... https://www.scmp.com/article/105080/diseased-dogs-lives-neglect?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/105080/diseased-dogs-lives-neglect?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 28 Jan 1995 16:00:00 +0000 OPPORTUNISTS are preying on a public car park in San Po Kong, by raising hourly metre fees from $8 to $20, and convincing car owners to park and pay up. At the car park outside the San Po Kong Courts building, the Sunday Morning Post discovered several parking jockeys actively soliciting drivers and urging them to park in designated spaces. Some dusted newly parked vehicles without the car owners' consent before requesting parking fees that were 250 per cent higher than the signposted... https://www.scmp.com/article/103334/jockeys-creaming-parking-fees?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/103334/jockeys-creaming-parking-fees?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 14 Jan 1995 16:00:00 +0000 A HEARTBROKEN father last night blasted the 'lenient' sentence given to the man who killed his wife, son and daughter in a road accident. Wong Kim-fung said driver Cheung San-ting should have been jailed after it was revealed he had been drinking when he ploughed into the family as they sat near their broken-down light goods vehicle beside Tolo Highway at 11 pm on April 12. Tests showed the amount of alcohol in Cheung's blood was twice Britain's drink-driving limit of 80 milligrams per 100... https://www.scmp.com/article/100193/killer-driver-should-go-jail-says-dad?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/100193/killer-driver-should-go-jail-says-dad?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 17 Dec 1994 16:00:00 +0000 TWO men were killed on a Wong Chuk Hang construction site yesterday, prompting new fears about inadequate safety measures in the Hong Kong building industry. Chan Tak-sum, 48, and Chow Sun-cheung, 39, were certified dead on arrival at Queen Mary Hospital after a platform on which they were working collapsed and threw them down a 15-metre lift shaft. They were cleaning debris off the platform at about 3 pm when the accident occurred. Fire Services Department sources suspect they were not... https://www.scmp.com/article/99299/two-workers-perish-lift-shaft-plunge?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/99299/two-workers-perish-lift-shaft-plunge?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 10 Dec 1994 16:00:00 +0000 HONG KONG records were broken yesterday when tickets for Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom Of The Opera, billed as one of the biggest musicals yet to come to the territory, went on sale for the first time. The queues outside the Hong Kong Cultural Centre were the longest yet seen, with people arriving before dawn to ensure they got seats for the show. By the time the box office opened at 9 am there were 600 people waiting outside the doors. By 11 am there were 750 people queuing for tickets... https://www.scmp.com/article/98399/phantom-flying-start-early-early-birds-queue-seats?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/98399/phantom-flying-start-early-early-birds-queue-seats?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 03 Dec 1994 16:00:00 +0000 THE widow of the Korean hostage shot dead during Friday's bloody Aberdeen shootout arrived in the territory last night vowing to sue the police for what she claimed was a botched operation. Kang Choi Soon-ju, 31, wept continuously as she arrived at Kai Tak from Seoul with the dead man's brothers, Kang Sang-young, 46, and Kang Sang-in, 35. Kang Sang-bo died early on Friday during a shootout between police and gunman Cheung Cho-yau, 23, in Aberdeen. But it remains unclear whether Cheung... https://www.scmp.com/article/92296/shootout-widow-vows-sue-police-over-death?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/92296/shootout-widow-vows-sue-police-over-death?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 15 Oct 1994 16:00:00 +0000 A CONSTRUCTION site contractor fell to his death in Shau Kei Wan yesterday when the platform he was working on collapsed, sending him plunging 10 metres to the ground. So Tai, 40, was pouring concrete on the platform which linked a lift shaft to the building at Hing Tun Estate when it gave way at 2.40 pm. The man's body was recovered at 12.20 this morning by firemen and taken to the mortuary, after lying for nearly 10 hours trapped but partially visible under rubble and concrete. Fire... https://www.scmp.com/article/90522/contractor-falls-death-platform?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/90522/contractor-falls-death-platform?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 01 Oct 1994 16:00:00 +0000 THE pilot of a transport plane which plunged into the sea off Kai Tak airport, killing three people and leaving another three missing, claimed yesterday that the crash was caused by engine failure. As experts from Britain and Indonesia arrived in the territory to investigate the accident, the captain of the ill-fated Lockheed L100-30 Hercules, Soeyono Sanardhi, said a turboprop engine on the extreme right of the aircraft cut out with a 'loud bang' seconds after takeoff. The four-engined... https://www.scmp.com/article/89581/pilot-blames-engine-failure?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/89581/pilot-blames-engine-failure?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 24 Sep 1994 16:00:00 +0000 INTIMIDATION and violence, using 'street toughs', are used on a regular basis to retrieve outstanding money, according to the head of a debt recovery agency in Tsim Sha Tsui. The collector, Mr Wong (not his real name), made the claim in an exclusive interview with the Sunday Morning Post. His company specialises in getting back cash owed to mainland companies by Hong Kong entrepreneurs. Mr Wong admitted his business used 'street toughs', and added that even triad bosses were not immune.... https://www.scmp.com/article/88884/call-collect?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/88884/call-collect?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 17 Sep 1994 16:00:00 +0000 ONCE bitten by a loan shark and you are scarred for life. With interest rates soaring to 100 per cent in a day, debtors who have been unable to repay their loan have been held captive and brutally beaten. Now legislators and police are fighting back by pushing for tougher penalties for loan sharking. Meanwhile, after a survey conducted during the first 10 months of last year reveals nine out of 144 victims detected are policemen, the force is working to provide more counselling for members... https://www.scmp.com/article/88883/once-bitten-scarred-life?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/88883/once-bitten-scarred-life?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 17 Sep 1994 16:00:00 +0000 A TEAM of sophisticated mainland pickpockets is preying on tourists who visit The Peak to enjoy the night-time views of the territory. The gang, who pose as members of a Taiwanese tour party, take advantage of the bustle of crowds at the popular beauty spot. Reporters and photographers from the Sunday Morning Post spent several nights watching them in operation and have now passed their findings to the police. The gang, consisting of about 10 men and at least one woman, waits for a tour... https://www.scmp.com/article/88901/tourists-prove-easy-pickings-pickpockets-peak?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/88901/tourists-prove-easy-pickings-pickpockets-peak?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 17 Sep 1994 16:00:00 +0000 THE grieving father of a 15-year-old boy who has lain in a coma for 16 months is considering taking legal action against the hospital which treated his son. Cheng Man has spent countless hours with his son, Wai-tak, travelling two hours to his bedside every day since he suffered a head injury after being attacked by two youths last year. Mr Cheng, 58, claims Wai-tak would have recovered from his injuries had he been treated properly when he was first admitted to the Queen Elizabeth... https://www.scmp.com/article/85481/father-may-sue-hospital-over-comatose-boy?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/85481/father-may-sue-hospital-over-comatose-boy?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 20 Aug 1994 16:00:00 +0000 SEVENTY years ago the Hong Kong and Yaumati Ferry Co Ltd launched its first cross-harbour routes with only 11 steamboats. Over the years, the service has grown and prospered, providing the people of Hong Kong with a comfortable, convenient and economical service. As time passed, the company has pursued the objective of offering a high-quality service at low cost and, despite the challenges of war, technological change and increasing competition from other modes of transport, it has... https://www.scmp.com/article/50528/keeping-pace-growing-territory?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/50528/keeping-pace-growing-territory?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 04 Nov 1993 16:00:00 +0000 THE Government's decision to set up a $7 billion Civil Service Pension Reserve Fund has been greeted with a sigh of relief by concerned parties including 190,000 civil servants. It has ended their long battle for pension payments. Political and economic uncertainty have sparked off the worst confidence crisis among civil servants, aggravated by the Sino-British row. The threat of 1997 looming and the Chek Lap Kok infrastructure building draining local resources have cast long shadows over... https://www.scmp.com/article/48310/pensions-public-finance-timebomb?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/48310/pensions-public-finance-timebomb?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 18 Oct 1993 16:00:00 +0000