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John Davies will be focusing on Kowloon office and industrial activity
Property services firm Colliers International released a report on Wednesday saying that the worst is over for Hong Kong’s real estate market and the company backed up that prediction just one day later by announcing a pair of senior hires for its local team.
John Davies is joining Colliers as an executive director tasked with upgrading the firm’s office leasing and investment advisory work in Kowloon and the New Territories, according to the company statement. Former Savills director Terry Shum is coming aboard as a director at Colliers, to leverage his Kowloon office leasing expertise while working together with Davies.
The museum under construction in the West Kowloon Cultural District aims to relate Chinese national treasures to modern life Courtesy of the Hong Kong Palace Museum
The Hong Kong Palace Museum will show some 800 Chinese national treasures when it opens in mid-2022, but it should not be seen as a branch of the world-famous institution in Beijing’s Forbidden City, says its director.
“We have no intention to build a branch… but to use Hong Kong as a platform to give a new interpretation of [the Palace Museum’s] collection,” says Louis Ng, a veteran Hong Kong arts administrator, in an interview with
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Colliers Hong Kong has hired former CBRE veteran Stanley Wong as senior executive director for capital markets and investment services, aiming to accelerate growth and attract new clients to the real estate brokerage.
Wong recently left CBRE, where he had handled more than HK$8 billion ($1 billion) in transactions in nearly nine years with the firm’s capital markets team, where he served most recently as an executive director focusing on trades of en bloc buildings and retail podiums.
Helping to round out Colliers’ investment team are senior director Freddy Wan, director Matthew Cheng and manager Joe Yip, all freshly hired after stints at CBRE.
What better way to celebrate Asia Art Archive’s (AAA) 20th anniversary than throwing a party amid the green environs of the Hong Kong Country Club? As the organisation officially left its teenage years behind, more than 30 works donated by artists, collectors and galleries went under the hammer at a highly anticipated invite-only dinner and live auction. Pieces by Yayoi Kusama, Stanley Wong and Irene Chou were among those up for grabs, with all proceeds going to support AAA’s mission to fund education and research into contemporary art in Asia.
“We are absolutely thrilled to be celebrating 20 years. This is an important milestone for us. We’re equally excited about the continued growth and dynamism of contemporary art in this part of the world and feel privileged to be part of this story,” said Benjamin Cha, co-chair of AAA.