It's a very informative book. Things include practice notes and government instructions really help young property professionals in HK. In addition, this book gives a brief historical background on land admin. in HK. It serves a very good guide to the ppl interested in studying HK's land policies. After all, it is a very concise and easy to read book. Hope u enjoy it.

I found this book a real page-turner; I couldn't put it down. I lived in Hong Kong for 8 years, and I can tell you, this book describes the real Hong Kong, as experienced by expatriate Americans. The characters and settings are realistic. The suspense keeps you moving, and the mystery is beautifully crafted. The book has several layers of meaning, especially regarding mother-child relationships. I highly recommend this book! You'll enjoy it.

Lyric, unsentimental... moving... Kleinzahler demonstrates tremendous virtuoso as a poet, integrating the language of the city and the language of the heart into the pieces.

One of the very few contemporary poets today with a lyrical ear and a vision for a poetry that challenges what he calls the "professional neuroticism" of the neo-confessional poem and the vacant opacity of avant-gard poetics.

These poems hit close to home ... engaged in the city and all of its energy, loneliness, and paradoxes.

The Lonley Planet condensed guide to Hong Kong jumped off the shelf at me as it was bright pink. The colour isn't the only hot thing about it, let me tell you! For a small guide, this product really packs all of the relevant information in to its 128 pages starting with important facts about Hong Kong from history, orientation, environment, culture and society to arts, economy and climate! The text isn't the largest I have ever seen, but this guide is very easy to read, and fits easily in to your top pocket, thus making it the ideal companion for long day trips on foot. Obviously, it is advisable to read from a selection of guide books, but this one is the perfect size to take along with you on the day.

A whistle-stop tour of the highlights of Hong Kong proved particularly interesting and useful to me as I could simply mark off each landmark in order and visit accordingly when I was in Hong Kong. Unlike some other guides, there are also sufficient photographs to help you recognise all the most important landmarks and to give you a bit of insight in to the city before you arrive.

I particularly liked the colour-coded sections for sights & activities, Out and about, Shopping, Places to Eat, Entertainment, Places to Stay and Facts for the visitor. This provided comprehensive information on a variety of activities, sights, tours, restaurants, markets, bars and hotels which were both up to date and objectively remarked upon. Although the guide cannot go in to detail and include every place of interest in Hong Kong, the top places were mentioned, hints and tips given as to where not to miss and a good range of places were written about to accommodate any budget or any interest.

As is always useful in a large, non- western city, good directions are important, and the Lonely Planet condensed guide book certainly provided this. Tram, bus and MRT information was provided for all of the attractions in the guide as well as detailed road and street maps for Central, Causeway Bay, Kowloon, Wan Chai and other parts of Hong Kong Island and the outer lying territories.

Interesting and funny anecdotes also make an interesting read, both preparing the visitor for what you will see and providing a cultural insight in to the more unusual side of life in Hong Kong. I particularly enjoyed the extra information about eating out in Hong Kong - from tea drinking to dim sum culture, vegetarian life in Hong Kong (or lack of it!) and where to eat late at night!

The hotel listings are perhaps the least well covered in this small but sweet offering from Lonely Planet, but there is still a decent enough selection of lodgings from cheap to super delux to suit any budget. Obviously, the reason that the accommodation section is not as comprehensive as other guides is that it focuses more on the real, day to day Hong Kong - emphasising the fact that this is a great guide to keep with you at all times as it is easy to carry and a really useful companion.

Lastly, the travellers facts combine all of the must-know information at the back of the book in an easy look-up section. Getting to and from the airport, travelling in the city, health and safety information, events, public holidays, brief vocabulary section and conversion tables mean that if you are staying for 24 hours or a week, you will have sufficient help to enjoy everything that Hong Kong has to offer. This book really was the best one that I found!!

Well worth the money!

Long Night's Journey Into Day: Prisoners Of War In Hong Kong And Japan, 1941-1945 reveals the plight of Canadian, British, Indian, and Hong Kong POWs captured when Hong Kong fell to the Japanese in December 1941. The grim experiences of American POWs are also represented throughout this seminal military history. Starvation, diphtheria, beriberi, dysentery, tuberculosis, and harsh punitive conditions were endemic among the prisoners. Yet many of the men were able to find ways to improve their bleak existence, sustain their morale, and survive these hostile conditions. Author Charles Roland draws upon hundreds of interviews with former POWs, as well as archival material from around the world to detail and document the extreme conditions that the prisoners were compelled by their captors to endure. Long Night's Journey Into Day is an essential, core title for any serious World War II studies reference collection.

New economy for Hong Kong is coming so quick now.
So, How the Hong Kong government and SME firms can face this rapid changes since year 2000 ?

As we knew that " Knowledge Economy " is the new concepts for e-managing and e-business after Globalization in the coming decade.

But we need to re-fresh your traditional minds and forget all the past in your running history. " Forget your old fashion, re-make and re-design your new fashion with the global trends and colours of management "

Facing the crisis of economy and never give-up your life, so you can learn from the new ways in the e-business models.

Hong Kong is needed to make more co-operation with their Peral Delta economic region, reckon it is the only way to re-build the new structures in the next decade. Hong kong has the well-developed managing culture which is learned from the Britain before 1997.

No doubt, China is their co-competitor in this decade.
Don't make deep reliable with China and also need to run their fastest way to the e-commerce so it can protect the long run business models with their China's partners.

Hong Kong is changing now.
Hong Kong People also is changing their minds now.
Forget the past history and step into the new roads in time.

A collection of Xi Xi's short fiction regarding life in the untamed and fascinating Hong Kong of the 1980s. This work puts you squarely in the middle of Hong Kong during negotiations between the British & Chinese government. In the first half of the 1980's, the Chinese and British governments negotiated Hong Kong's future, inducing fierce soul-searching and intimate scrutiny of society and the general population.

Xi Xi skillfully shows us by contrast and in-depth perception the real and imagined, the new and the ancient, the infringement of Western culture and local traditions; and she has created stupefying narratives telling of the expectations, dreams, desires, hostility and apprehension that the Hong Kong citizens found themselves inextricably snarled in during this climactic time in their history.

Xi Xi has used her text in conjunction with the pictures of Rene Magritte. In doing so, she has blended an interpretation of images Belonging to modern Western tradition with a uniquely contemporary Hong Kong interpretation.

Most other books written posturing and speculating about the handover will be long forgotten after the event occurs. The lovely and particular way with which Xi Xi has written her work will guarantee that it remains a valuable resource in defining the history of Hong Kong for decades to come. Leslie Blanchard

Editor A Writer's Choice Literary Journal

Jack and Jenny are on their third trip to Hong Kong when Jack Carlton and Tim Chen find an envelope with $2,000 in it and a mysterious quote about hot money. It leds them on a great discovery of a counterfeit ring in Hong Kong. Tim's father is seriously hurt in a car accident as he searches for his son. The exciting escape from the warehouse with the evidence of the counterfeiters makes a sensational arrest possible. Strong Christian principles make this wholesome reading and the guarantee that the young reader will not want to put the book down.

I have read the book and it has many intereting pictures especially if you know what Hong Kong looks like now. Also it depicts what life was like. In all a high quality interesting book.

One Country, Two Systems of Hong Kong in the coming year of 2003!
No doubt, it is the very good concept to maintain Hong Kong to have the good demo structure after back to China since 1997.

However, Hong Kong has been changed rapidly in these five years even in political, economical or financial climates. If you are the Hong Kong People, how do you think and run in the next decade. China and Hong Kong are the co-competitor in business and financial development after the WTO and Globalization in 2002.

Hong Kong is still have the business chances or models to compete with Shanghai or other Pearl River Delta (PRD) Regions ? That is the major concerns for every citizens in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong is not the same as before... Don't play back your minds to 1990's.

Thinking on your future, Looking for your new fashions of business models or even need to re-fresh your minds.

Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and China is the Great China Business Region! But how to join them into the one country and four systems business zones, reckon it is also the major question for every business people in globe.

No doubt, Hong Kong is facing the deepest deflation in 2002. And How the Hong Kong People can stand up again in the coming decade? And Can the Hong Kong SAR Government help their citizens to solve all economic crisis in coming Five years?

Hong Kong's major concerns are Freedom, Human Rights and Laws.
Hong Kong is not the China's System. They are standing at the sytem of Capitalism.

Hope Hong Kong's citizens can work hard on every day.
Forget all the past crisis..
Thinking more on positive development in 2003.

Don't be afraid and keep up your warmer's hearts.
Reckon Hong Kong can be lighted up again in Globe and even better than the history in 1990...