Slow or negative growth for many Asian countries in the late 1990’s affected U.S. exports of hardwood lumber to Asia. With many of these economies now on the mend, this study attempted to gain an initial understanding of how this crisis affected hardwood lumber exports to Asia and the extent to which export volumes have recovered. Trade statistics compiled by the U.S. Department of Commerce and...

Junjie Hu, Haiqin Yang, Irwin King, Michael R. Lyu, and Anthony Man-Cho So Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Rich Media Big Data Analytics and Applications Shenzhen Research Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong {jjhu, ...

This paper reports a study of 1,304 Chinese brand names of ten types of products in China. These brand names are content analyzed following a linguistic approach which the authors developed from their earlier studies. The ten types of brand names are presented in three broad categories representing the three different developing stages of the consumer product industry in China: brands of tradit...

Heng Wu; Zhijun Yang; Doris W.T. AU; Baosheng Guo; Zihong Lin; Zhong Liu; Fangyuan Wei; Gang Li; Weimin Liao; Ling Qin; Leungkim Hung; +Lei Wei; +Ge Zhang + Department of Orthopaedics & Traumatology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, School of Chinese Medicine, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong SAR, China, Department of Biology and chemistry, City University of Ho...

The purpose of this research is to study what issues may affect investor adoption of on-line trading in the Hong Kong financial market. The studied system is a system that provides straight-through trading for investors, rather than an order routing system that forwards orders from a broker firm to the appropriate market. One communication infrastructure for on-line trading is the Internet. How...

This study employs the asymmetric threshold cointegration test suggested by Enders and Siklos (2001) and creates EC-EGARCH(1, 1)M model to investigate the pass-through of money market rate to banking retail rates in Taiwan and Hong Kong. It further explores the impact of interest volatility on interest rates. Over the period of February 1988 to December 2004, we find that the interest pass-thou...

Spatial and temporal variations of mercury in sediments from Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong Jian-bo Shi , Carman Ip , Chole Tang , Gan Zhang , Rudolf Wu , Xiang-dong Li 1∗ Department of Civil & Structural Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong State Key Laboratory of Organic Geochemistry, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Gua...

Serologic Characteristics and Clinical Significance of Miltenberger Antibodies among Chinese Patients in Hong Kong C.K. Lin , K.H. Mak , Gregory Cheng , Terence T.H. Lao , Mary H.Y.Tang , C.M.Y.Yuen , N.K. Chan , Jenny Yang a a Hong Kong Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service, b Department of Medicine, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and c Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and d Prenatal ...

er presents the results of an exploratory evaluation of the e-business readiness of operators in Hong Kong. The paper draws upon the web design, e-business, ion systems, and tourism and hospitality management literature to show that an ative evaluation process can be useful in moving towards a framework for the n of the sophistication of the online operations of organisations involved in the ur...