This article examines the significance of the “China factor” in maintaining economics stability and growth in Hong Kong, relative to the role played by the “US dollar peg” exchange rate regime that has been in place since 1983. It shows how, by virtue of the peg, Hong Hong was made subservient to US monetary policy, and how unsynchronized business cycle with the US resulted in spiralling wage a...

H. Yu, C. Wu, D. Wu, and J. Z. Yu Atmospheric, Marine and Coastal Environment Program, Division of Environment, Hong Kong University of Science&Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China Atmospheric Research Center, HKUST Fok Ying Tung Graduate School, Nansha, Guangzhou 511458, China Institute of Tropical and Marine Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, Guangzhou 510058,...

E. S. Hui, J. A. Helpern, and E. X. Wu Laboratory of Biomedical Imaging and Signal Processing, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, People's Republic of, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, People's Republic of, Department of Radiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, United States, Centre for Advanc...

School of Business Administration, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Sichuan, P. R. of China; Business School, Shantou University, Guangdong, P. R. of China; Information Technology Management, School of Business, University at Albany, Albany, NY, U.S.A; Department of Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, P.R. China; Department of Finance and Deci...

1Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong 2 School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6 3Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong 4Key Laboratory of Science and Technology for National Defence of Parallel and Distributed...

This research examined the extent to which organizational subunits of a single organization adapted the organizational culture to different social cultural contexts, and the implications of such adaptations on individual level outcomes. Patterns of observed organizational culture significantly differed in Hong Kong compared to the US and the UK, although most differences were in degree rather t...

The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region has recently announced that a Women’s Commission would be set up in Hong Kong. This is a welcome, albeit long-overdue, development. This issue of the Hong Kong Medical Journal includes articles related to women’s health and one on screening programmes in local private hospitals. Some of the critical issues on women’s health in Hong K...

Authors’ current addresses: H. C. So, Dept. of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong; Y. T. Chan, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7K 5L0; Q. Ma, Wireless Networks, Nortel Networks, Ottawa, Canada; P. C. Ching, Dept. of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of ...

Hong Kong has seen an upheaval in recent years. From the protests over extradition law to National Security Law, these are a response ever-encroaching hand of Beijing on political rights Kong. After Law was implemented, Kong’s freedom almost gone. One by one, pro-democracy protesters, opposition parliament members, and media being targeted repressed. Despite numerous riots, SAR government perse...

Clean development mechanism (CDM) is encountering many uncertainties due to the coming end of the commitment period and critically suggested reformation. As the largest participant in the CDM market, China shoulders the biggest proportion of market risk. Among the studies on CDM in China, few have focused upon the legal aspect of CDM, which is crucial in defending developers’ interests. To fill...