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Two German magazines specialising in the hotel industry feature an agreement between the Bavarian hotel and catering school and Shandong on an exchange of students. The Germans are, it says, particularly interested in learning Hong Kong gastronomy. A magazine specialising in business trips, Geschäftsreise, reports on the renewal of a management contract for the Meridien Hotel situated at Hong Kong airport.
Miscellaneous
News of an issue of Hong Kong stamps with an historical Chinese motif (Nieuwe Gids, Brussels; Giornale d'Italia, Rome).
Christies' Hong Kong branch ended the year, says Il Sole 24 Ore (Milan), with a sale of Asiatic art objects in the Hilton on 18-19 January.
Geraldine Norman writing in the Rome paper Corriere della Sera highlights the sale of contraband objets d'art of Chinese origin at Christies' and Sotheby's Hong Kong branches.
There is a disturbing article in the Luxemburger Wort on rhinos being in imminent danger of extinction due to poaching. Hong Kong, however, has forbidden the import of rhino horn powder and is only selling "old stock".
A three-page feature appears in the weekend edition of Diario Noticias on the young French climber Isabelle Patissier who was filmed by A2 (French TV) attempting to climb Hong Kong skyscrapers using bamboo frames put up by construction workers.
Other fascinating stories appear in the Cologne paper Kölnische Rundschau which informs its readers of the origin of the name "Hong Kong" the Chinese is "Xiang gang" which means incense harbour.
The Amsterdam paper Elseviers Carrière says that during the first race of the new season, the Hong Kong Jockey Club received HK$312 million worth of bets, ie. HK$60 per capita.
4 February 1988
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