New World Development has partnered with Hong Kong-based biotech start-up Prenetics to donate 200,000 Covid-19 test kits to low-income families, as a record surge in coronavirus infections in the city ... ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus: Hong Kong’s brokers and banks shut branches as financial hub hunkers down for city’s worst coronavirus flare-up yet
Hong Kong confirmed 1,161 new infections today and reported two ... so the new measures would not have any impact on our business," said Hui. Everbright Securities International, formerly known as ... ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus: how this Bill Gates-backed Hong Kong start-up won US FDA approval for its Covid-19 rapid test kit amid strained US-China relations
He relocated its headquarters from California to Hong Kong in 2018. Do you have questions about the ... time was to develop a rapid test kit for the virus because that was our business - we were ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong leader “deeply sorry” for long queues amid COVID surge
HONG KONG, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Hong Kong's leader ... reaching billions of people worldwide every day. Reuters provides business, financial, national and international news to professionals via desktop ... ( read original story ...)
Asia-Based Investors Chase Pre-IPO Startups in the Region
Hello, it’s Vinicy in Hong Kong. In today’s Bloomberg Deals newsletter, I’m doing a deep dive into the pre-IPO market for investing in Asia. Plus, there’s a potential bid for the Denver Broncos from a ... ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus: Indicaid’s rapid test kit production to rise fivefold as Phase Scientific goes into overdrive amid Hong Kong’s fifth Covid-19 wave
... the entire population The Home Affairs Department bought 300,000 kits from the firm ahead of the Lunar New Year Hong Kong biotech start-up Phase Scientific International (PSI) aims to raise its ... ( read original story ...)
Covid-19: Latest Hong Kong limits devised by officials with no ‘worldly concerns’ in further blow to businesses, critics say
The Covid-19 social distancing measure limiting the size of public gatherings to two people is “disproportionate” to the severity of the virus, the Democratic Party spokesperson has said, describing ... ( read original story ...)
Covid Hurts Business At Yum China; Shares Plunge 4.3% In Hong Kong
Spun off from Yum! and run as an independent company since 2016, Yum China is the largest restaurant chain in China with more than 11,000 restaurants across the country as of December. Yum China’s ... ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus: Hong Kong start-up PSI to ramp up Covid-19 rapid test kits output fivefold amid record infections
... the entire population The Home Affairs Department bought 300,000 kits from the firm ahead of the Lunar New Year Hong Kong biotech start-up Phase Scientific International (PSI) aims to raise its ... ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus: Indicaid rapid test kit output to rise fivefold as Phase Scientific goes into overdrive amid Hong Kong’s fifth Covid-19 wave
The biggest customer in the near term is the Hong Kong government, which plans to distribute test kits to the entire population The Home Affairs Department bought 300,000 kits from the firm ahead of ... ( read original story ...)
TripAdvisor’s most reviewed hotel, restaurant and attraction, globally and in Hong Kong, as the travel site hits 1 billion reviews
To mark TripAdvisor’s milestone, Destination’s Known discovers Hong Kong’s most reviewed hotel, restaurant and attraction, and the city’s most prolific reviewer. ( read original story ...)
Conclusion with Policy Suggestions – HKPC x HKU Reindustrialisation Study of Hong Kong
The “big market, small government” non-intervention policy advocated by the Hong Kong Government under the British colonial rule in the 1960s and 1970s might be an appropriate economic policy approach ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong imposes its strictest COVID curbs to date as cases soar
Since the start of its Omicron outbreak in late December, Hong Kong had already closed gyms and bars, while restaurants are only allowed to serve takeout in the evenings. The latest measures aim ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s ‘zero-covid’ policy buckles under the onslaught of omicron – but authorities just won’t let it go
At first, scarred by the 2003 SARS epidemic which killed almost 300 here, Hong Kong residents were quick to mask up and stay indoors at the start of the pandemic. But most of the vaccinated population ... ( read original story ...)