Hong Kong's government raised US$3.2 billion via green bonds denominated in US dollars, euros and offshore yuan in the city's latest push to establish itself as a sustainable finance hub and to ...
Hong Kong Pushes For New Stablecoin Legislation
Hong Kong’s monetary authorities are proposing new regulation for fiat stablecoins. What Happened: After a two-month public consultation that concluded in February 2024, 108 submissions from various ...
2 Hong Kong doctors fail to recoup legal costs of abandoned manslaughter case
Court rules Lam Chi-kwan and Chan Siu-kim put themselves under suspicion by neglecting to prescribe antiviral drug to patient who later died.
Cathay passengers lucky they had seat belts on when toilet door fell: Hong Kong experts
Passengers fortunate not to have been hit by toilet door as they were wearing seat belts when fixture fell during take-off, they say.
Social structure, long-term economic transformation lead to Hong Kong’s labor shortage
Hong Kong . On the July 15, the Hong Kong Labor Department announced the launch of the Re-employment Allowance Pilot Scheme, which had immediately began accepting regist
Hong Kong releases stablecoin report with Binance and Circle’s input
Hong Kong has just rolled out a big consultation report on stablecoins, with input from major industry players like Binance and Circle. They’re trying to regulate the stablecoin market, requiring ...
TransThera Seeks Hong Kong IPO To Sustain Cancer Drug Research
Backers also include institutional investors such as Bank of China Capital. The company needs sustained external financing to maintain its drug development, hence its renewed interest in a Hong Kong ...
Hong Kong’s narrative in US too negative to expect better ties ‘any time soon’, delegation told
Hong Kong’s narrative in the United States is too negative to expect improvement in mutual relations “any time soon”, while the city should strengthen its “two systems” characteristics, locally based ...
A spectre looms over Hong Kong’s property market
In Hong Kong’s expensive property market that label can make even the swankiest homes places to avoid. A paper in 2020 by Utpal Bhattacharya of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and fellow academics said ghost-inhabited homes in the city lose a fifth of their value on average;
Hong Kong’s West Kowloon arts hub to sell land parcels in ‘a few years’ time, CEO says
Betty Fung says sales will be in batches and commence in coming years as land earmarked for residential purposes.
Hong Kong digital bank ZA Bank to provide reserve banking services tailored for stablecoin issuers
ZA Bank, Hong Kong’s No.1 Digital Bank1, proudly announces its pioneering role as the first digital bank in Hong Kong to provide reserve banking services tailored for stablecoin issuers. This landmark ...
BeyonCa teams up with CATL, finance firms to accelerate ‘Made in Hong Kong’ EV goal
start-up backed by French carmaker Renault Group and Chinese state-owned Dongfeng Motor Corporation, has signed agreements with supply chain partners and financial institutions to accelerate its aim ...
Hong Kong family office operators plan US$100 million capital-investment migrants fund
Wings Capital has teamed up with other family offices in the city to set up a fund that will invest for CIES applicants, partner Cliff Ip says.
Hong Kong, mainland China weigh on Asia-Pacific office rents amid high vacancy: report
Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Guangzhou had the sharpest declines among 23 cities in the second quarter, consultancy Knight Frank says.