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Encyclopedia > Allan Zeman

Allan Zeman (盛智文) GBS JP is a German-born Jewish businessman doing business in Hong Kong. He is known as Father of Lan Kwai Fong. The modern Hong Kong honours system was created by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) Government after the handover of Hong Kong to China in 1997. ... A Justice of the Peace (JP) is a puisne judicial officer appointed by means of a commission to keep the peace. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination...


Allan Zeman grew up in Montreal, Canada. He started working at 10 and worked for a fashion company at 19. As he frequently travelled to Hong Kong for work in the 1970s, he soon fell in love with the city in and moved to Hong Kong in 1975. Motto: Concordia Salus Coordinates: Country Canada Province Quebec Founded 1642 Established 1832 City Mayor Gérald Tremblay Area    - City 366. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ...


He felt that Hong Kong had no western restaurant that suit his needs. In 1980s, he started a restaurant in Lan Kwai Fong, a narrow street in Central. Later, Lan Kwai Fong developed to become one of the most important bar and night life district in Hong Kong. The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... Lan Kwai Fong in the daytime. ... The night view of the Central as viewed from Tsim Sha Tsui on the opposite side of the Victoria Harbour Central (Chinese: 中環; Jyutping: zung1 waan4; Cantonese IPA: ; Pinyin: Zhōnghuán) is an area located in Central and Western District, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. ... Tourists sit outside a bar in Chiang Mai, Thailand A Depression-era bar in Louisiana. ... Nightlife is the collective term for any entertainment that is available and more popular from the late evening into the early hours of the morning. ...


In 2004, Allan Zeman became the chairman of Ocean Park as invited by the then-Chief Executive of Hong Kong Tung Chee-hwa. He managed to make the park more attractive even after the opening of Hong Kong Disneyland. 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Other Hong Kong topics Culture - Economy Education - Geography - History Hong Kong Portal The Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (Traditional Chinese: , Simplified Chinese: , pinyin: XiānggÇŽng Tèbié XíngzhèngqÅ« Xíngzhèng ZhÇŽngguān; Cantonese Jyutping: hoeng1 gong2 dak6 bit6 hang4 zing3 keoi1... Tung Chee-hwa (Traditional Chinese: 董建華 Simplified Chinese: 董建华 Pinyin: Dǒng Jiànhuá) (born July 7, 1937, or the 29th day of the fifth month in the Chinese calendar) is the first Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People... Hong Kong Disneyland (Traditional Chinese: 香港迪士尼樂園; Cantonese Jyutping: hoeng1 gong2 dik6 si6 nei4 lok6 jyun4; Mandarin Pinyin: XiānggÇŽng Díshìní Lèyuán) is the first theme park inside the Hong Kong Disneyland Resort, which is owned and managed by the Hongkong International Theme Parks, an incorporated company...


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Montreal Mirror : The Kristian Perspective (624 words)
Zeman constantly jets around the planet, to his mansion estate in Phuket, Thailand, his interests in Las Vegas, and he even has money in Romania.
Zeman tells me this from Macao, where he's meeting with a partner to confer about his Las Vegas interests.
Zeman gently grouses that the report fusses that ticket prices could go up after renovations to his Ocean Park theme park.
Mickey News °o° - Hong Kong's Theme-Park Clash (1295 words)
So, Zeman, who took the job at Ocean Park after a request from Hong Kong's then-chief executive Tung Chee-Hwa, decided that he needed to transform Ocean Park into an attraction that could capture some of the overflow from Disney and be what SeaWorld is to Disneyland and Disney World.
Zeman sees a price tag of $700 million, with the whole project completed by 2010, and he's now trying to convince government officials that they should give their blessing and O.K. the spending.
Zeman is banking on getting approval not only for the park proposal but also for another project on his wish list, an extension of the city's subway system to the park's doorstep.
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