Hong Kong's Hang Seng was up 0.06 percent while Japan's Nikkei gained 0.65 percent in early trade today. China's Shanghai Composite shed 0.28 percent. The US Dow Jones Industrial Average ended 0.03 percent lower on Friday. ( read original story ...)
Crime film Trivisa takes top prize at Hong Kong Film Awards
Hong Kong crime film Trivisa – which is banned in mainland China – scooped the Best Film award at the 36th Hong Kong Film Awards, the city’s answer to the Oscars. It took a total of five awards on Sunday night – the largest number among all ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Property Prices Are Near Their Peak: J.P. Morgan
Hong Kong housing prices are close to their peak and economically “unsustainable,” said Cusson Leung, managing director at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.’s Asia Pacific equity research unit. Price increases in the world’s most expensive home market have ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Concerned About Risks From Developer Mortgages
Hong Kong’s de facto central bank expressed concern about the riskiness of mortgages with high loan-to-value ratios issued by developers, as some analysts are warning that property prices in the city are unsustainable. “The accumulation of these high ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong protester jailed over anti-China clashes
Yeung Ka-lun, 32, was pictured in news footage torching a taxi during the February 2016 unrest, which tapped into fears that Beijing is tightening its grip on Hong Kong. During clashes dubbed the "fishball revolution", police fired warning shots in the air ... ( read original story ...)
A Tale of Two Cities: Hong Kong and Shenzhen Global Entrepreneurship
Kevin Au at the Chinese University of Hong Kong(CUHK) Business School‘s Center for Entrepreneurship(CfE) and his collaborator, Dr. Marta K. Dowejko, former post-doctoral fellow at the CfE and now Research Assistant Professor in Entrepreneurship of the ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Concerned About Some Property Developer Mortgage Risks
Hong Kong’s de facto central bank expressed concern about the riskiness of mortgages with high loan-to-value ratios issued by the territory’s property developers, and said it may ask banks to take additional steps to manage their exposure to the sector. ( read original story ...)
A Filipina rises to McKinsey’s top
with half of the team from Hong Kong. Of utmost importance to Kristine Romano, McKinsey’s first Filipina partner, are the following: “The problems I wanted to solve on my own — economic problems, how to improve schooling, how to balance the budget ... ( read original story ...)
China’s carriers set for biggest profit since 2010 as they bypass Singapore and Hong Kong
a Shanghai-based partner at McKinsey & Co. “Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou are all becoming powerful hubs as well, being able to draw traffic from China to Europe and U.S., increasingly competing with Tokyo, Seoul and Hong Kong.” On Thursday (March 30 ... ( read original story ...)
Alterna CEO Rob Paterson: “Knowledge is not power unless it is shared with others.”
Paterson spent part of his childhood in Paris and Hong Kong, and received a B.A. from University of ... R.P.: Two individuals profoundly impacted my life; they both worked for McKinsey and Co. Dominic Barton and Steve Baer believed and practised that ... ( read original story ...)
China's Big 3 Carriers Post Biggest Profit Since 2010 as Market Expansion Continues
a Shanghai-based partner at McKinsey & Co, said. "Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou are all becoming powerful hubs as well, being able to draw traffic from China to Europe and U.S., increasingly competing with Tokyo, Seoul and Hong Kong." The big three's ... ( read original story ...)
How mahjong is changing with the times in Hong Kong
Where to play The good news is, you don't need to be part of a Hong Kong family to get in on the action. Dim Sum Library-- a new restaurant in the Admiralty District's Pacific Place Mall, near Central -- provides a contemporary atmosphere with cocktails ... ( read original story ...)
Fiji win third consecutive Hong Kong Sevens in style
Fiji beat South Africa 22-0 at the Cathay Pacific / HSBC Hong Kong Sevens to claim their first tournament victory of the 2016-17 series. The Olympic champions scored four tries in the final as a weekend of pulsating rugby came to a thrilling close on Sunday. ( read original story ...)
HK’s affordable homes plan up against wall of Chinese capital
Hong Kong’s homegrown property companies are being edged out of their own market and are looking overseas to do business. Local developer David Chiu, chairman of Far East Consortium International, said he had become increasingly disheartened after seeing ... ( read original story ...)