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Workshop speakers include the Deputy Chief Executive of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Ltd, Mr Herbert Hui; Managing Director of Salomon Brothers Hong Kong Ltd, Mr Trevor Rowe; Director of Maunsell Consultants Asia Ltd, Mr Richard Garrett; Chairman of Hong Kong Coalition of Services Industries (HKCSI), Mr Brian Stevenson; Chairman of Professional Services Committee, HKCSI, Mr Anthony Griffiths; President of Law Association for Asia and the Pacific, Mr Donald Yap: Senior Assistant Director (Regulatory), Office of the Telecommunications Authority, Mr Anthony Wong; and Chairman of INFA Telecom Group, Mr Peter Tsang.
Apart from business seminars and luncheons, the promotion will also feature a pop concert produced by Television Broadcasts Ltd (TVB) at the Sydney Town Hall on September 24.
Pop singer Frances Yip and an Australian singer will stage a cabaret show at a gala dinner hosted by HKETO on September 23.
For events organised by HKTA, an 18-metre tall lantern, the world's biggest, will be put on display for two weeks in Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, from September 20 to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival.
On September 27, HKTA will launch a Hong Kong Food Festival at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Melbourne.
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New measure to encourage hotel development
The Government has decided to exclude back-of-the-house facilities from plot ratio calculation for hotels, the Director of Buildings, Dr Choi Yu-leuk, announced today (Thursday).
said.
"This is to encourage the development of more new hotels in Hong Kong," he
Under the existing policy, hotels are regarded as non-domestic development with a plot ratio up to 15 times of the site area, depending on the limits set on statutory outline zoning plans.