Put it this way, they are about the same .. with some mall/hotel in HK, they just set their 電梯 a bit faster ..
Plus, the fact is, it is SO DAMN noisy in HK anyway, so by comparision, everything else is quiet ... people said how come cell phone ring tone is so loud in Canada as well la..
(by the way, this kind of thread .... is very .. Mr. T style wor .. )
i bet that reporter is from ottawa and since there are not a whole of tall buildings in there so its not surprising ...that reporter shuld try to ride some of those in the older buildings in hk