The 71-year-old Hong Kong airline is under pressure to combat aggressive state-supported mainland carriers, and to position itself against an "open skies" deal signed last month between China and Australia. Cathay scrapped its second-half profit forecast ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong public and doctors oppose Medical Council’s proposed medical reforms, survey reveals
Polls commissioned by medical sector lawmaker Dr Pierre Chan showed resounding opposition to controversial government reforms making it easier for foreign doctors to practice in Hong Kong. Between November last year and this month, the general public ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong public to be polled on next chief executive
“We are definitely not here to be kingmakers,” Tai, a legal scholar at the University of Hong Kong, said. “We just hope that all Hongkongers can participate in such an important event.” The chief executive race heated up last week after Chief ... ( read original story ...)
Just how do to apply pop culture to Freakonomics: use China’s transition as an example
Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. It’s not easy to joke about economic models based on rational utility maximisation, but I tried by linking similar woes that confront both Hong Kong and the US. Chinese people aren’t fans of irony, but nothing is more ... ( read original story ...)
Time for Hong Kong’s young and old to unite for a better future
there is genuine caring about the people and a desire to put our city at the forefront of scientific and business innovation. It is in the best interests of the city to pull together and stick together, for, in the long run, Hong Kong’s economy and ... ( read original story ...)
New York fuels global ambitions of Hong Kong's Tim Ho Wan
In 2013, facing soaring rents in Hong Kong, the chefs moved the original Tim Ho Wan to a ... they face a similar problem as rising Manhattan rents force restaurants out of business. "We're known as the cheapest Michelin star restaurant [in the U.S ... ( read original story ...)
Trump likely to tap business executive to head Navy: report
According to an online biography, he moved to Hong Kong in 1996 to head up HarbourVest’s Asian branch. He also serves on the Board of Visitors of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and Harvard Business School’s Asia Pacific Advisory Board. ( read original story ...)
Appetite for risk
And Hong Kong to Toronto, where he’s settling into his first Canadian ... so he applied for trainee jobs at banks that were targeting new business graduates and finance greenhorns from other fields. He settled on an offer from New York-based investment ... ( read original story ...)
A.M. Best Affirms Credit Ratings of Hong Leong Insurance (Asia) Limited
HONG KONG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A.M. Best has affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “a-” of Hong Leong Insurance (Asia) Limited (HLIA) (Hong Kong). The outlook of these Credit Ratings (ratings ... ( read original story ...)
China's Dalian Wanda posts 2016 revenue drop, weighed by property business
HONG KONG/BEIJING China's Dalian Wanda Group Co Ltd on Saturday said its revenue for 2016 dropped by 13.9 percent, even as operating income increased 3.4 percent, as a slowdown in the group's commercial property business impacted overall performance. ( read original story ...)
FSC's vice chief to attend financial forum in Hong Kong
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Yonhap) -- A top South Korean financial regulator will attend an international forum in Hong Kong this week to discuss ways to deal with external uncertainties, his office said Sunday. Jeong Eun-bo, vice chairman of the Financial Services ... ( read original story ...)
The importance of being possessive: A run-in with Hang Seng Bank
Personally I have for many years been a customer of the bank with gay lions. But the band banks at the Hang Seng, so while I was in Shatin ... The name on the cheque was “Hong Kong Saint Andrews Pipe Band”, which is our name, or so I supposed. ( read original story ...)
Scotland start with Hong Kong bashing
Scotland thrashed Hong Kong by 24 runs to win the first match of the Desert T20 tournament at the Shaikh Zayed Cricket Stadium in the Capital on Saturday. Scotland elected to bat first and the names that mattered, delivered on the day. Openers George ... ( read original story ...)
Scotland, Afghanistan start with wins
Hong Kong v Scotland Rapid half-centuries from Calum MacLeod and ... Stirling and Stuart Poynter gave Ireland a steady start with a 36-run opening stand in 32 balls but Ireland couldn't switch gears after that. The experienced William Porterfield, Kevin ... ( read original story ...)