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The Swedish diaspora in Hong Kong

Our senior project manager, Ingrid Reinli, who is also a SVIV * representative in Hong Kong has written an article on the Swedish community in Hong Kong. The article covers how many people the community consists of, why they moved to Hong Kong and what they do here. The article was published in SwedishPress, North America's exclusive source for all things Swedish since 1929, available in both digital and print editions. 10 issues per year. SwedishPress provides news and information on contemporary Sweden and follows trends in music, art, design and more. To read the article press here SVIV -…
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Launching YellowEye

Launching YellowEye

We had a fantastic launch party of the Swedish produced spirit YellowEye on Thursday, 8th November at the SoHo bar Shady Acres on Peel street. YellowEye is an organic liqueur with quality in focus. Coffee infused rum liqueur using thoughtfully selected ingredients to deliver the incredible taste that is best enjoyed garnished with a group of really good friends. This was the first introduction of the drink to Hongkongers. The event gathered a huge crowd which resulted in record sales result for the bar. Most guests chose to stand out in the street in the nice and cool evening temperature…
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Europe at a glance

The European Union (EU) currently has 28 member states but Europe as a continent has more countries that are not members of EU. Within EU some countries use the euro as their currency whereas others use their national currency. Some countries have more than one official language. There are regions with highly developed trade activities that are cross-border and there are clusters with considerable grants for supporting research and development. There are clusters for mature or emerging companies, startups, or business incubators in various different industries. European countries and regions have a wide range of clusters. Some of them started…
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Introduction to Hong Kong

Introduction to Hong Kong

Hong Kong has a long tradition as a commerce, trade and financial centre, which makes it a perfect regional hub for European businesses in Asia. Hong Kong is also considered one of the world’s most free markets and provides an international business climate, world class infrastructure, a superb airport, a straightforward tax system, easy company registration process and a strategic and geographically favourable location. Hong Kong is a dynamic city with strong growth prospects; a gateway to opportunities in mainland China and the Greater Bay Area which includes Hong Kong, Macau and 11 cities in the Guangdong province; and unrivalled regional…
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Greater Bay Area (GBA)

In China's national development blueprint a closer cooperation between Hong Kong, Macau and 9 cities in Guangdong Province is the aim to create a globally competitive and world-class city cluster by 2022. A city cluster leading to a more interconnected Pearl River Delta area with Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Macau as the 4 ‘core cities’ to drive the development along with Foshan, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Zhuhai, Huizhou, Jiangmen and Zhaoqing making up the 70 million-population of this city cluster. Hong Kong will play a key role in the development as a venture capital investment and financing hub, create the funding…
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