Gesture Economics
UNEASILY perched at the top of the First Secretary's in-tray are the bills for the new airport. The joint liaison group (Chinese and British, supposedly charting the way towards......
City And Suburban
The mandarin who could not fit into Hong Kong's pecking order CHRISTOPHER FILDES T Hong Kong he mightiest mandarin of all has slip- ped through Hong Kong's fingers. This is Sir......
Happy Birthday
THE most profitable British merchant bank? Correct: S.G. Warburg. And the next most? Some grand old name like Hambros, Rothschilds, Schroders, Bar- ings? No. Kleinwort Benson,......
Custom And Practice
LOVERS of incident and variety can always count on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The members of its ruling coun- cil have been trying to assert their droit de seigneur over new......
No Love Lost
THE proverb says that Hong Kong's four powers are Jardine Matheson, the Hong- kong Bank, the Jockey Club and the Governor — in that order. Hong Kong's most open secret is that......
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