Voluntary environmental reporting and disclosures (VED) in annual reports provide managers with an effective way to manage expectations of the sustainability and risk exposure of the firm. Many studies have documented that VED are fairly common among publicly listed firms. However, in the case...

Third Party Logistics (3PL) service is one of the core logistics services in the local logistics industry nowadays. However, the business operation among the small and medium-sized 3PL facilitators and their trading partners is still manual-based which is inefficient. Hence, there is a need to...

The authors investigated the environmental disaffects of the mixed and intensive land-use (MILU) urban model that are responsible for the high-rise and high-densities cities of Asia. The compact urban form is associated with environmental consequences such as worsen canyon geometry due to close...

This study examines whether the earnings response coefficient (ERC) is conditional on the transparency of corporate governance (CG) in emerging markets. Using 81 of the top 100 Chinese firms that are listed either in mainland China or in Hong Kong, we find that the level of governance...

Over the last decades, many cities have experienced a rapid increase in automobile as a result of continuous population growth and pursuing better quality of living. Vehicle growth and limited space of cities bring a problem of traffic congestion. In coping with this problem, various traffic...

This paper introduces a web-based tourism demand forecasting system (TDFS) that is designed to forecast the demand for Hong Kong tourism, as measured by tourist arrivals, total and sectoral tourist expenditures, and the demand for hotel rooms. The TDFS process comprises three...

This paper is an overview of the social welfare systems of five East Asian countries, namely Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore. It analyses the overall costs of welfare as well as income distribution aspects, based on both aggregate data and a programme-by-programme review of their...