Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
World-Wide Plaza is the shopping centre on 3 levels on the lower floors of Worldwide House. It is built in an " atrium " style, but without skylight. Its first level is accessible from the Central Elevated Walkway or by escalator from the ground floor of the building.
While Macau is known as the gaming capital of the world and heavily relies on tourism, [11] [12] [13] Hong Kong is the second major source of tourists of Macau. In 2013, 6,766,044 Hongkongers had accounted for near one-fourth of Macau's total visitor arrivals. [ 14 ]
It is the world's 13th tallest building by height, 10th tallest by number of floors, and Hong Kong's tallest, as well as the only building in the city with over 100 storeys. [1] The official height is 484 m (1,588 ft), which includes the 6 m (20 ft) tall parapets on the roof.
At 233 meters (764 ft), the Macau Tower's tethered "skyjump" and Bungee jump by AJ Hackett [1] from the tower's outer rim, is the highest commercial skyjump in the world, and is also the second highest commercial decelerator descent facility in the world, after Vegas' Stratosphere skyjump at 252 meters (827 ft). [2]
The existence of tong lau was a culmination of a series of historic forces including the economic development of Hong Kong, the Second World War, and the influx of Chinese migrants to Hong Kong. [12] In 1898, the government introduced a building and public health ordinance which defined all the buildings including tong lau.
Administered under Highways Department of HKSAR, [39] the Hong Kong Link Road connects the main bridge-tunnel to an artificial island housing the Hong Kong Boundary Crossing Facilities (HKBCF). This section includes a 9.4-kilometre (5.8 mi) bridge construction, a 1-kilometre (0.62 mi) Scenic Hill Tunnel , and a 1.6-kilometre (0.99 mi) at-grade ...
Each floor occupies around 11,000 square feet (1,000 m 2).. The building currently houses the Hong Kong Branch of Public Bank Berhad, The Law Society of Hong Kong, BOC Group Life Insurance and the local Consulate of Ghana as well as offices of Hang Seng Bank, whose old and new headquarters are next to Wing On House.
Hong Kong has full autonomy in the conduct of its external commercial relations. The Basic Law of the Hong Kong provides that it shall be a separate customs territory and may, using the name 'Hong Kong, China', participate in relevant international organisations and international trade agreements, such as the World Trade Organization.