Haidilao International Holding, Chinese mainland's biggest hotpot restaurant chain, will kick-start its IPO on Wednesday, planning to raise as much as $1 billion from share sales. The Beijing-based co... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong: HANG SENG INDEX (.HSI) Trade war battering smaller Chinese manufacturers, new data shows
Hong Kong-listed stocks are now 17 per cent cheaper than the mainland’s yuan-traded equities, according to an index compiled by Hang Seng Bank to track the price gap between the two markets. Slowing c... ( read original story ...)
Ticket sales for Hong Kong’s high-speed railway off to bumpy start on first day of sale amid glitches in payment systems
The first buyers booked more than 6,450 tickets in advance for Hong Kong’s new high-speed rail service to mainland China on Monday, amid glitches which the operator played down as “teething problems”. ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong professor accused of killing wife, stuffing body in suitcase
Hong Kong University mechanical engineering associate professor Cheung Kie-chung was taken away by police on Tuesday, according to the South China Morning Post and other news media. Cheung, 53, had re... ( read original story ...)
Bubble tea craze is a super sweet market for inventive Hong Kong entrepreneurs. But could this bubble burst?
They both opened their first stores last month. A guide to the best bubble tea in Hong Kong Heytea, a hugely popular bubble tea business in mainland China whose customers boast on social media of wait... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong bus driver jailed 20 months for driving while ill and killing woman in crash
A Hong Kong bus driver who passed out at the wheel and killed a pedestrian in a crash was on Monday jailed for 20 months and disqualified from driving for five years. The District Court heard KMB driv... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Polytechnic University gets HK$100 million donation from engineer Otto Poon for smart city and sustainable energy research
Top engineer Otto Poon Lok-to has donated HK$100 million (US$12.8 million) to Hong Kong Polytechnic University for smart city and sustainable energy research, the institution announced on Monday eveni... ( read original story ...)
More Hong Kong students taking their own lives, study by Jockey Club suicide research centre finds
The number of Hong Kong youngsters taking their own lives has grown in recent years, a research centre has found, with a marked increase in suicides among full-time students. Some 75 Hongkongers aged ... ( read original story ...)
Malaysian professor in Hong Kong yoga ball murder trial ‘avant-garde’ and ‘well ahead’ of other doctors
A Malaysian professor accused of lethally poisoning his wife and daughter in Hong Kong with a gas-filled yoga ball was on Monday praised in court as an avant-garde anaesthesiologist known for helping ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong-based OneDegree gets $25.5M Series A to make coverage more accessible, starting with pet insurance
OneDegree, a Hong Kong-based insurance technology startup, announced today that it has closed a Series A totaling HKD $200 million (about $25.5 million). Half of that amount was pledged by ... ( read original story ...)
Enact law making Hong Kong property owners pay monthly fee to maintain ageing buildings, Urban Renewal Authority says
A law should be introduced under which property owners must contribute monthly to a building maintenance fund to sustain Hong Kong’s ageing neighbourhoods, the head of the city’s Urban Renewal Authori... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong now has more mega-millionaires than New York City
According to 2017 estimates, one in seven people in Hong Kong is a millionaire. And property prices in the country have increased to reflect the growing wealth of its inhabitants. Hong Kong has broken ... ( read original story ...)
HKZMB not expected to rumble Macau property prices
Realtors on this side of the Pearl River estuary do not believe that the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (HKZMB) will significantly impact local property prices. The perspective follows a report ... ( read original story ...)
Top 8 Richest Women in Hong Kong
8 Chan Tan Ching-Fen Net worth $1.7 Billion Chan Tan Ching-fen sums up as the top eight richest women in Hong Kong with a net worth of about $1.8 billion. She is the wife of the late Chang Tseng-His w... ( read original story ...)