Hong Kong Goes to the Mountain
The territory’s flailing economy seeks a way to draw shoppers
By: Timothy F. Hamlett
There is a bogus Arab saying, usually attributed to the 17th-century English writer Francis Bacon, which goes, “If the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain.” Some similar sentiment seems to have animated the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, which next month is launching a Hong Kong Shopping Festiva…
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