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Foyer of Chater House, Hong Kong, with bust of Sir Paul Chater. The site was again redeveloped by Hongkong Land when the new Hong Kong International Airport opened in 1998. The building's main tenant, Cathay Pacific , relocated to Cathay City when the airport moved to its new site at Chek Lap Kok , while Swire Group moved to Pacific Place in ...
The Hong Kong Club Building is on the left, and Chater Garden on the right. Foreign domestic helpers gathering on the northern section of Statue Square, viewed from Chater Road in May 2006. Chater Road is a three-lane road in Central , Hong Kong named after Sir Paul Chater .
Hong Kong hosts several high tech and innovation companies, [228] including several multinational companies. [229] [230] Hong Kong is the ninth largest trading entity in exports and eighth largest in imports (2021), [231] [232] trading more goods in value than its gross domestic product.
An Eastern Entrepot: A Collection of Documents Illustrating the History of Hong Kong. Her Majesty's Stationery Office. p. 293. ASIN B0007J07G6. OCLC 632495979. Tsang, Steve (1995). Government and Politics: A Documentary History of Hong Kong. Hong Kong University Press. p. 312. ISBN 962-209-392-2.
Streets of Hong Kong, 1865 Beaconsfield Arcade, Hong Kong, c.1890. The building on the left is the HSBC building (second design) China was the main supplier of its native tea to the British, whose annual domestic consumption reached 30,050,000 pounds (13,600,000 kg) in 1830, an average of 1.04 pounds (0.47 kg) per head of population.
1953 photograph of Central, showing the ground of the Hong Kong Cricket Club behind the Old Supreme Court Building. In the early days of British rule in Hong Kong, the site was part of the Murray Parade Ground. Then in 1851, it was opened as a sports and recreation area and became home to the Hong Kong Cricket Club and its ground.
The Viceroy of Guangdong and Guangxi, ordered four customs stations to be established in waterways surrounding Hong Kong and Kowloon at Fat Tong Chau, Ma Wan, Cheung Chau and Kowloon Walled City. It was so-called "blockade of Hong Kong" by the Hong Kong Government. [2]
The year 1924 was a critical point of aviation history of Hong Kong, when the story of Kai Tak began. The location of Kai Tak belonged to two billionaire friends Ho Kai and Au Tak, who owned the land before the government acquired the land (the land originally did not have a name), which explains the name of the airport. First planned as an ...