{"id":23598,"date":"2018-07-23T10:16:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T03:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/?p=23598"},"modified":"2024-08-16T14:02:50","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T07:02:50","slug":"hong-kong-a-city-of-contrasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/news\/industry-news\/hong-kong-a-city-of-contrasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong = A City of Contrasts"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"23598\" class=\"elementor elementor-23598\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-51b4824 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default tm-col-stretched-none tm-bg-color-over-image\" data-id=\"51b4824\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4cb516b tm-bg-color-over-image\" data-id=\"4cb516b\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-11bb7ba elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"11bb7ba\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.13.3 - 22-05-2023 *\/\r\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<h3><b>Hong Kong = A City of Contrasts&nbsp;<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">23 Jul 2018<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I am writing from my home of 16 years <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8211; <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/resources\/destination-guide\/hong-kong\/\">Hong Kong<\/a>. Hong Kong is a city of amazing contrasts. Perhaps nowhere is it better illustrated than the front cover of this month&#8217;s FIDI Focus. You&#8217;ll notice my new Volkswagen Beetle, state of the art in design and incorporating the latest in fabled German engineering. It has all the creature comforts anyone could ask for including <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">air<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">-conditioning, leather seats, power everything and a stereo system that can really rock.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you look closely, just behind and to the left in that same picture, is one of Hong Kong&#8217;s famous double deck trams. Trams have been in continuous operation in Hong Kong for more than a century, slowly and steadily plying the same routes along Hong Kong Island&#8217;s waterfront. No climate control, no sound system but a <\/span><b>ride <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">from one end to the other, some 13 kilometers, will <\/span><b>set <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">you back a mere US $0.25! I don&#8217;t think I can even start-up my Beetle for that amount of money. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Victoria-Harbour-Addie-Lin_s-825x510-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"825\" height=\"510\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-23599 size-full\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is this kind of contrast that makes Hong Kong such a fascinating place. Take telecommunication: Hong Kong has more cell phones per capita than any other city on earth. All the latest technologies are here and fully six separate groups vied for the much-coveted 3G licenses that were recently awarded by the local government. At the same time, chunky, black, rotary dial phones can occasionally be found in older buildings in the Central business district. It gave me pause when my 13-year-old son asked me the other day: &#8220;Dad, what do they mean when they say &#8216;dial&#8217; a telephone number?&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hong Kong is a feast <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">visual delights. Steep, verdant <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">green <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">mountains rise up from Victoria Harbour and provide a stunning backdrop to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">some <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">world&#8217;s most modern buildings. The work of famed architects I.M. Pei, Sir Norman Foster and Paul Rudolph stand alongside tenements that date back <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">pre-World War II days. Ultra modern, ultra posh hotels such as the Peninsula and the Mandarin provide a stark contrast to street vendors with push carts selling cigarettes, sodas and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ice <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">cream on <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">sidewalk just outside their cavernous marble lobbies.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Victoria Harbour &#8211; Photo <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">by <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Addie Lin @Asian Tigers Hong Kong&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The utter chaos of the open air, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">wet <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">market in Wanchai, where recently cleaned fish, some still gasping for air (or trying to, anyway) clog streets that are full of Mercedes Benz sedans carrying bankers in three piece Armani suits to boardrooms of some of the world&#8217;s most sophisticated companies. It never ceases <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">amaze me and it probably never will.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In our industry, too, there are contrasts<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hong Kong can proudly boast having six <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">FIDI <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">member companies based in this former British colony, now a Special Administrative Region of the People&#8217;s Republic of China. All these companies are FAIM accredited and employ the latest ideas in our industry. Compare that with just a few years back before FAIM became the respected measure that it is, and you can see just how far Hong Kong has come in such a short period of time.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Author: Rob Chipman @Asian Tigers Hong Kong <\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong = A City of Contrasts&nbsp; 23 Jul 2018 I am writing from my home of 16 years &#8211;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Victoria-Harbour-Addie-Lin_s-825x510-1.jpg",825,510,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Victoria-Harbour-Addie-Lin_s-825x510-1.jpg",825,510,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Victoria-Harbour-Addie-Lin_s-825x510-1.jpg",825,510,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Victoria-Harbour-Addie-Lin_s-825x510-1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Victoria-Harbour-Addie-Lin_s-825x510-1-300x185.jpg",300,185,true],"large":["https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Victoria-Harbour-Addie-Lin_s-825x510-1.jpg",825,510,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Victoria-Harbour-Addie-Lin_s-825x510-1.jpg",825,510,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Victoria-Harbour-Addie-Lin_s-825x510-1.jpg",825,510,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Victoria-Harbour-Addie-Lin_s-825x510-1-672x448.jpg",672,448,true],"logixs_wp_thumbnail_height":["https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Victoria-Harbour-Addie-Lin_s-825x510-1-600x510.jpg",600,510,true],"logixs_wp_thumbnail_height_400":["https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Victoria-Harbour-Addie-Lin_s-825x510-1-400x510.jpg",400,510,true],"logixs_wp_square":["https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Victoria-Harbour-Addie-Lin_s-825x510-1-550x510.jpg",550,510,true],"logixs_wp_landscape":["https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Victoria-Harbour-Addie-Lin_s-825x510-1.jpg",825,510,false],"logixs_wp_portrait":["https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Victoria-Harbour-Addie-Lin_s-825x510-1-550x510.jpg",550,510,true],"logixs_wp_huge_square":["https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Victoria-Harbour-Addie-Lin_s-825x510-1.jpg",825,510,false],"logixs_wp_square_150":["https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Victoria-Harbour-Addie-Lin_s-825x510-1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"logixs_wp_small_height":["https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Victoria-Harbour-Addie-Lin_s-825x510-1-150x180.jpg",150,180,true],"qi_addons_for_elementor_image_size_square":["https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Victoria-Harbour-Addie-Lin_s-825x510-1-650x510.jpg",650,510,true],"qi_addons_for_elementor_image_size_landscape":["https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Victoria-Harbour-Addie-Lin_s-825x510-1.jpg",825,510,false],"qi_addons_for_elementor_image_size_portrait":["https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Victoria-Harbour-Addie-Lin_s-825x510-1-650x510.jpg",650,510,true],"qi_addons_for_elementor_image_size_huge-square":["https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Victoria-Harbour-Addie-Lin_s-825x510-1.jpg",825,510,false]},"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"atadmin","author_link":"https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/author\/atadmin\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/asiantigersgroup.com\/category\/news\/industry-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Industry News<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Hong Kong = A City of Contrasts&nbsp; 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