Special-purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) have received a cooler than expected response in both Hong Kong and Singapore, with some launches from early in the year fizzling and few new applications ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong PolyU launches fashion challenge
Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has teamed up with local financial services company Hang Seng Bank to co-found the Sustainable Future Challenge in Textiles and Fashion. The competition ... ( read original story ...)
SPACs underwhelm in Hong Kong and Singapore in first year, as listings lapse and applications peter out
Special-purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) have received a cooler than expected response, but market participants still expect the listing mechanism to play a long-term role. ( read original story ...)
CATL’s Battery Rival Starts Gauging Demand for $2 Billion Hong Kong IPO
CALB Co., a local competitor for global battery bellwethers Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. and BYD Co., has started gauging investor demand for its $2 billion Hong Kong initial public offering. M ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s Reopening Hinges on Vaccination, Finance Chief Says
Hong Kong’s full reopening to the outside world hinges on further boosting vaccination levels, Financial Secretary Paul Chan wrote in blog. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong scraps quarantine for air crew
Hong Kong has done away with quarantine requirements for locally-based air crew, the latest step in the city's easing of strict pandemic controls. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong once again ranked as world’s freest economy
In its Economic Freedom of the World 2022 Annual Report, the institute said that Hong Kong continued to rank top in "Freedom to Trade Internationally" and "Regulation". ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong can only fully reopen borders if Covid-19 vaccination rate improves, finance chief says; city logs 9,033 new cases
It has been extremely challenging to strike a balance between curbing the pandemic and facilitating travel, while preserving the economy’, Paul Chan says. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong confronted by bleak outlook, with banks’ record high borrowing costs set to hit property market, economy
The interest rates Hong Kong’s banks charge each other for borrowing money have hit new highs and are expected to drive up their funding costs. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong can only fully reopen borders if city’s Covid-19 vaccination rate improves: Paul Chan
'It has been extremely challenging to strike a balance between curbing the pandemic and facilitating travel, while preserving the economy', Chan says Finance chief's remarks came as the city ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong court sentences speech therapists to 19 months in prison over ‘seditious’ children’s books
A Hong Kong court on Saturday sentenced five speech therapists to 19 months in prison over children's books deemed to be seditious, in a case that rights defenders say marks a major blow to free ... ( read original story ...)
Why Hong Kong still uses bamboo scaffolding in construction
Everything you need to know about a material that is flexible, strong and cheaper than steel and aluminium Bamboo scaffolding doesn't require sophisticated machinery or complex tools to erect, just ... ( read original story ...)
COVID rules cast clouds over Hong Kong schools
Further delays to normal school life could exacerbate youth mental-health problems as well as give more people reason to leave. ( read original story ...)
A Hong Kong sawmill’s last days
From the brine-soaked docks of a ferry pier to the red-painted pillars of a Buddhist temple, many an ageing wooden structure in Hong Kong has found new purpose in the hands of Wong Hung-kuen. ( read original story ...)