Li Ka-shing’s strategy to reinvest his lofty returns from Hong Kong and mainland China property investments into stable cash-generating assets in western developed countries is a long known open secret. What has caught some by surprise is the pace and ... ( read original story ...)
China’s Country Garden says it’s back on track in Malaysia. Is it?
Yu said the new deals emphasised just how Malaysia and the Iskandar development region – where Forest City is sited – stood to gain from the private-property venture. The Iskandar zone is three times the size of Hong Kong and has drawn in billions of ... ( read original story ...)
Vision in a time of turbulence: Lessons for a post-Brexit Britain from Hong Kong
This has yet to generate notable ripple effects in Hong Kong, however, with the property market remaining, for the time being, robust and rosy-cheeked. It is even possible that Brexit may offer some solid opportunities for Hong Kong. Richard Graham ... ( read original story ...)
Buyer of Peninsula Hotels stake tries pre-empting takeover talk
HONG KONG -- Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels' new second-largest shareholder ... Underlying profit -- calculated by subtracting the after-tax effects of property revaluation and other items -- rose 19% to HK$181 million. ( read original story ...)
Optimism about a new pact
It also touches on trade in services, investment, intellectual property rights, dispute settlements, horizontal and institutional issues, economic and technical cooperation, and other areas of interest to be mutually agreed upon. In 2015, Hong Kong was ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong landlord to build millennial-friendly offices with running track
(Photo by Jennifer Lo) With more than half of its revenue coming from retail, Hysan's turnover was up modestly by 1.8% to 1.79 billion Hong Kong dollars ($230 million) in the first six months of this year. Its underlying profit, excluding gains on property ... ( read original story ...)
Hot Property: Wait for it
But a Yohai-controlled company that owns the property filed for bankruptcy protection in December, imperiling the venture. Pushed out by high rental prices in Hong Kong, more people are living in tiny illegally subdivided apartments. Nationalgeographic.com ... ( read original story ...)
The conglomerate that troubles China
Another dead end: an apartment that Guan listed as his address in Hong Kong filings. The current tenant ... operator CWT Ltd and the initial public offering of an HNA backed property trust are facing delays, according to people familiar with the matter. ( read original story ...)
Pierre Lemieux: Trump’s ‘fair trade’ messenger is an undercover enemy of free trade
Free unilateral trade — when a country decides to just unilaterally abolish all of its own import barriers, as in Hong Kong or in 19th-century Britain — would produce many if not most of the benefits of multilateral free trade. The fact that America ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong finance chief says calls to loosen purse strings are ‘nothing new’, and he will ‘spend on what should be spent on’
Hong Kong’s finance minister on Saturday said comments made by a former central banker that the city’s “miserly” fiscal philosophy of the past decade should be abandoned were “nothing new”, and he would stick to “spending on things that ... ( read original story ...)
BOC Hong Kong Holdings Ltd (BNKHF) TEMA Picking up Steam
TEMA can also be used as a momentum indicator. This is a momentum indicator that is the inverse of the Fast Stochastic Oscillator. The benefit of the Schaff Trend Cycle is that it is meant to be quicker than the standard macd and stochastic signals. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong e-sports fans go wild as Team Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau slay Team Europe
Hong Kong player and crowd-favourite Toyz drew first blood when xPeKe was caught poorly positioned and without flashes or support. The Spaniard was just asking to get ganked. Team Europe team did look on decent form at the start, but the game quickly ... ( read original story ...)
An Epic failure, but what now for Hong Kong’s MMA family?
When Hong Kong’s Epic MMA Club closed its doors this week ... “It’s like if I said let’s go and build a house but we are going to start with the second floor. It just doesn’t happen. Like, I got my son into jiu-jitsu and he loves it. ( read original story ...)
New ring to reshape how phones are used
The ring, designed by Hong Kong-based start-up Origami Labs, was inspired by Peter Wong, the visually impaired father of the firm's co-founder Kevin Wong. 'As a visual-impaired person, I rely on the software on the smartphone to read the icons, the texts ... ( read original story ...)