Retired civil servant Rachel Cartland tells Kate Whitehead about being one of few women in the Hong Kong government in the 1970s, experiences remembered the memoir Paper Tigress My roots are in rural ...
Prudential’s first-half profit up 9% on Singapore growth, but onshore China business remains weak
Sales of its Singapore operation grew by 17% in the first 6 months from the same period a year ago. Read more at straitstimes.com.
HSBC share price: 7% dividend yield and new CEO are catalysts
The HSBC share price has done well recently as investors wait for more changes when the new CEO starts working next week.
Hong Kong sales plan for 2024 subsidised flats revealed, but is deal sweet enough to tempt?
The Hong Kong Housing Authority, the city's largest public home provider, on Tuesday approved the Home Ownership Scheme sales arrangement for this year with about 7,132 subsidised homes on offer at a ...
Hong Kong Stock Market Has Flat Lead For Wednesday’s Trade
The Hong Kong stock market has finished higher in two sessions, gathering more than 260 points or 1.5 percent along the way. The Hang ...
What’s at stake as 2 Hong Kong journalists await a verdict in their sedition trial?
Two journalists who led a now-shuttered Hong Kong online news outlet will hear a verdict in their sedition case on Thursday, in a trial that’s seen as an indicator for press freedom in the ...
How will Hong Kong’s coming approval regime for medicines help patients? New, better drugs
Authorities plan to set up Hong Kong Centre for Medical Products Regulation in 2026-27, tasking it with conducting primary drug approvals After eight years of working on new drugs to combat superbugs, ...
Activist in landmark Hong Kong security trial says he has no remorse
The first Hong Kong activist to defend himself in person in a landmark national security trial against 47 pro-democracy campaigners said on Tuesday he had no remorse over the alleged conspiracy.
Revamping Hong Kong’s iconic ‘A Symphony of Lights’
The Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) intends to commission a visionary show curator to reimagine and revitalise the renowned “A Symphony of Lights” (the Show) multimedia light and sound extravaganza.
Hong Kong must rise to critical reform role bestowed by Beijing
Throughout the more than 45 years of China’s era of opening up and reform, Hong Kong has had a central role to play, thanks to its free economy, sophisticated financial markets and common law system.
Bank of East Asia logs HK$2.1b profit for H1
Bank of East Asia (BEA) saw its profit attributable to owners of the parent decline 19.9% year-in-year (YoY) to $269.28m (HK$2.1b) in the first six months of 2024, the bank’s interim results showed.
Spanish retailer Mango snags prime Hong Kong shop at 50% discount amid retail slump
The monthly rent for the 14,000 sq ft space at Asia Standard Tower in Queen’s Road Central is HK$1.25 million (US$160,220), 55 per cent lower than the all-time high in 2012.
Fate of 7 in alleged Hong Kong ‘Dragon Slaying’ bomb plot to kill police in hands of jury
First group charged under UN anti-terrorism law could face life imprisonment if found guilty after four-month trial over alleged plot to kill police in 2019.
Li Ka Shing Foundation funds non-invasive liver cancer treatment for Hong Kong patients
Li Ka Shing Foundation donates Asia's first cutting-edge, non-invasive device for treatment of liver cancer to city's oldest university Hong Kong liver cancer patients can receive a painless treatment ...