Functional Area:
Economics & Business Policy, Strategy & General Management
Pub. Year: 2006
Hong Kong-based investment banking analyst Steven Chan travelled to the mainland province of Guangdong late in the summer of 2005 to tour new service stations built by a Chinese¡VWestern oil joint vent...
Functional Area:
Economics & Business Policy
Pub. Year: 2006
This case studies a Hong Kong government environmental mandate to replace the territory's diesel-powered taxicab fleet with liquefied petroleum gas powered vehicles. In order to encourage the transiti...
Shareholders of Unocal, a mid-sized American oil and gas firm, watched the value of their stock rise ever since rumours of a takeover surfaced early in 2005. Trading in the low US$40s at the beginning...
Functional Area:
Economics & Business Policy
Pub. Year: 2005
In 2002, the HKEx released a consultation paper with proposals for continued listing eligibility for ¡§penny¡¨ stocks. A panic sell-off ensued as investors believed that they were about to lose both the...
Functional Area:
Economics & Business Policy
Pub. Year: 2004
Kerosene, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), and towngas were the three major forms of heating fuels used in Hong Kong before 1980. Numerous accidents caused by the use of LPG that occurred in the years p...
