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As at 3 March 2005, Hong Kong House, formerly the Gresham Hotel and Central Hotel, is situated on a prominent site on the corner of York and Druitt Streets forming part of the Town Hall streetscape. It is a five-storey building of Victorian Free Classical Style.
Its head office is located at the Great Eagle Centre, Harbour Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong. The company operates in Hong Kong , North America , Europe and the Asia Pacific region. As at 31 December 2023, the company's hotel portfolio comprised 29 properties, with more than 10,000 rooms.
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After the north wing burned down in 1929, the original part of the hotel, especially the large Gripps Restaurant, continued to be popular with the public, but the hotel eventually closed in 1952. [5] The hotel building was bought by the owner of the 1949 Hong Kong Derby Champion and lead investor of a company which was later renamed Central ...
Henry Tsang OAM, a leading figure in Sydney's Chinese community, a member of Sydney City Council (1991–1999), and the New South Wales Legislative Council (1999–2009), advocated for the establishment of a Chinese garden in Sydney since the 1970s. At that time, overseas Chinese gardens were first established in Hong Kong and Singapore.
QRE Plaza lobby. Hopewell Centre or QRE Plaza is a 25-storey building located at No. 202 Queen's Road East, Wan Chai, Hong Kong, developed by Hopewell Holdings. [1] [2] The plaza was completed in 2007 and contains a shopping centre, restaurants and health clinics.
Charlophobia – the fictional fear of any person named Charlotte or Charlie, mentioned in the comedic book A Duck is Watching Me: Strange and Unusual Phobias (2014), by Bernie Hobbs. The phobia was created to mock name bias , a form of discrimination studied by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Chicago .
Shui On Centre (Chinese: 瑞安中心) is a 35-storey Grade A office building in Wan Chai North, Hong Kong. The building was completed in May 1987. [3] In neighbors the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre and Grand Hyatt Hong Kong. It has the head office of the publisher of the Hong Kong Post. [4]