Dragonair Welcomes Hong Kong-Australia Air Services Agreement Targets Second Half of 2005 for Launch of Services to Sydney

Dragonair Chief Executive Officer Stanley Hui welcomed the agreement on air services concluded that provides for more flights between Hong Kong and Australia. He said that the airline was aiming to launch services to Sydney in the second half of next year.     

Shanghai Cargo Services Increased to 16 a Week

"There is strong demand in the market for all-cargo services to Shanghai and Dragonair is pleased to be able to offer shippers additional capacity and flexibility with these three new services a week," said Chief Executive Officer Stanley Hui."We have seen continued growth in cargo for Shanghai, both inbound and outbound.     

Dragonair to Fly Government Relief Supplies to Phuket

Dragonair flew a full load of relief supplies from the Hong Kong Government to Phuket on board an Airbus A321 on January 1. The airline waived all fees for the shipment, which included surgical gloves and masks."The relief task facing relief organisations is monumental, and we at Dragonair are doing what we can to facilitate this with the resources available." said Stanley Hui, Chief Executive Officer of Dragonair.     

Dragonair Welcomes Hong Kong - Australia Air Services Agreement：Targets Second Half of 2005 for Launch of Services to Sydney

Dragonair has been voted Best Airline—China for the third consecutive year in the Skytrax passenger survey. Conducted by Skytrax Research of the UK, the world's "largest" passenger survey was undertaken over the 10 months from June 2003 to March 2004, with the number of eligible nominations? for Airline of the Year totalling 10.8 million. "To be voted Best Airline—China for a third consecutive year in the Skytrax survey is a huge compliment by the travelling public to all the staff at Dragonair," said Chief Executive Officer Stanley Hui. "The results reaffirm that Dragonair     

Dragonair Welcomes Conclusion of Air Services Talks

Dragonair has welcomed yesterday's announcement of the successful conclusion of the air services talks between the Hong Kong SAR Government and the General Administration of Civil Aviation of China.     

Best Airline——China for Third Consecutive Year

Dragonair has been voted Best Airline - China for the third consecutive year in the Skytrax passenger survey.Conducted by Skytrax Research of the UK, the world's "largest" passenger survey was undertaken over the 10 months from June 2003 to March 2004, with the number of eligible nominations?for Airline of the Year totalling 10.8 million."To be voted Best Airline - China for a third consecutive year in the Skytrax survey is a huge compliment by the travelling public to all the staff at Dragonair,"said Chief Executive Officer Stanley Hui. "The results reaffirm that Dragonair     

Dragonair Launches Inflight Campaign in Support of Tsunami Relief Efforts

Dragonair is launching an inflight campaign to collect funds in support of tsunami relief efforts by the Red Cross."Funds donated by our passengers throughout our network between January 9 and February 12 will go to the Red Cross, which has been one of the major organisations involved in get-ling supplies, medicine and relevant personnel to the affected areas," said Chief Executive Officer Stanley Hui."This campaign is another way in     

Hang Seng and HSBC Predict Economic Growth in Hong Kong

Following Bank of China (Hong Kong) and Federation of Hong Kong Industries' heightening the predicted economic growth in Hong Kong, on July 1 HangSeng Bank declared that the local GDP of Hong Kong in this year is predictedto raise from 5.5% to 6%, and it further estimated that the economic growthof Hong Kong in the     

What's up in China's VC?

Given three years of back to back growth in venture in- vesting in China,is the trend likely to continue?What sorts of changes are ahead? Earlier in 2005,Francesco Guerrera in Hong Kong and Andrew Yeh in Beijing said of all the industries that could be created by government fiat, venture capitalism looks like an unlikely candidate.Based on the interaction between entrepreneurs with more vision than funds,     

WTO HK meeting to Provide Platform for Doha: Tsang

John Tsang, chairman of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Hong Kong Ministerial Conference (HKMC), said on December 12 that the target of the conference is to build a platform for the Doha Development Agenda negotiations toward a successful conclusion in 2006.     

Dragonair Welcomes Conclusion of Air Services Talks

Dragonair has welcomed yesterday's announcement of the successful conclusion of the air services talks between the Hong Kong SAR Government and the General Administration of Civil Aviation of China.     

WTO HK meeting to Provide Platform for Doha: Tsang

John Tsang, chairman of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Hong Kong Ministerial Conference (HKMC), said on December 12 that the target of the conference is to build a platform for the Doha Development Agenda negotiations toward a successful conclusion in 2006.……     

Egyptian Delegation to Boost Relations

Egypt's biggest ever business delegation to China will begin a visit on Sun- day to enhance economic co-op-eration between the two countries. The 55-strong delegation will take in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Hong Kong during its 10-day trip, said Aly El-Hefny, the Egyptian Ambassador to China. The delegation, organized by the General Authority for Investment and Free Zones in Egypt and the Egyptian Businessmen's     

Pearls in Pearl River Delta

When the Pearls in Pearl River Delta （PRD） is mentioned, Hong Kong will also naturally jump to people＇s mind. It must not only due to PRD＇s proximity with Hong Kong, but also due to Hong Kong＇s special role in the development of this region. Admittedly, Hong Kong really provided strong drive for the takeoff of the PRD Economic Zone. But with the prosperity of PRD, the nearly tailored combinations and complementarity have taken shape between Hong Kong and PRD, pushing the economy in the two areas to grow far more rapidly than otherwise.     

Third Phase of CEPA Agreement Launched

Details of the Supplement II to ＂the Closer Economic Partnership Ar rangement {CEPA） between Hong Kong and the Mainland has been announced. The updated document extends tariff-free access to the Mainland for all Hong Kong origin products and liberalization in existing CEPA service sectors.     

"2004 Tianjin·Hong Kong Week" starts

On October 20, Liang Baorong, Director of Beijing Office of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region(HKSAR) stated at the press conference for the "2004 Tianjin · Hong Kong Week", in order to promote the trade and economic cooperation and exchanges between Tianjin and Hong Kong under the frame of "Closer Economic Partnership Agreement between Mainland China and Hong Kong" (CEPA), to enhance the mutual understanding and     

"Strength With Peace"-Treasure Of Trading Between East and West—Wong Kam Hong (黄锦康)，Depuety Chairman of Midland Holding Ltd

Introduction Since China joined WTO,it has played an increasingly important role in global trade.China has demonstrated its competence in the global trade market.Wong Kam Hong,Deputy Chairman of Midland Holdings Ltd (Hereafter as Midland) believes trading not only exports goods and services,but also encourages cultural exchange.Midland and its subsidiaries is now the largest listed real estate agency in Hong Kong.Wong Kam Hong believes this is not as simple as buying and selling trading between the East and the West.To breed a kind of unique national treasure (国家资产),we need to blend the culture of the East and the West.With reference to Wong Kam Hong's over-30-year experience of living in Hong Kong,an international trading hub,and working in the very sophisticated real estate and finance industries.Through trading process,we can merge Tai Chi,the most powerful national asset of the East with the West's modern business management.     

Hong Kong：10^th Anniversary of Return

In the past months, Hong Kong has warmed up for celebrating the 10th anniversary of its return to the Chinese motherland with all kinds of anniversary-related activities. Concerns from all over China and abroad are mainly focusing on what changes the Hong Kong economy has undergone in the 10 years since the handover and what are the external and internal factors affecting Hong Kong. Authorities from Hong Kong Trade Development Council (TDC) have shared their views with China's Foreign Trade on Hong Kong's economic development in the past 10 years.     

Downgrade of U.S.Credit Rating Rattled Global Market

The Standard & Poor's rating agency announced on August 5 that it has downgraded the U.S.credit rating to AA+ from its top rank of AAA for first time.In response to S&P's move,Asian and Oceania markets saw intense volatility on August 8 as major stock markets in Australia, New Zealand,Japan,South Korea,Singapore, Mainland China,Taiwan and Hong Kong en-     

October Sees New Records Set

A total of 451,644 people flew throughout the Dragonair network in the month, up 8.7% on September."The month started off slowly due to less inbound traffic to Mainland cities during the National Day holidays, but picked up quickly thereafter, bolstered by strong business and leisure traffic," explained Dragonair CEO Stanley Hui."Significantly, we also saw greater demand from individual travellers in the Mainland, which has positive implications for future growth. It is over a year since the Individual Travel Scheme was launched, and the benefits are now gradu-