Category: BUSINESS

Beijing’s plans for a drastic overhaul of Hong Kong’s electoral system will start with the Election Committee that selects the chief executive being given considerable powers to nominate all ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong is too important a market to ignore. But so are the city’s emerging business risks. I expect to witness steady erosion of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region’s political ... ( read original story ...)

A Hong Kong court has convicted some of the city’s most senior pro-democracy figures, including media mogul Jimmy Lai, of unauthorised assembly during protests in 2019, in the latest indication of the ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s top 19 wealthiest people have a combined net worth ... Most of them made money starting out in the property business. In an interview this week, Leung Chun-ying, who served as the chief ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong will resume administering the coronavirus vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech on Monday following a 12-day suspension over packaging defects detected in one batch ... ( read original story ...)

Xi’s sweeping overhaul of Hong Kong’s electoral system -- aimed at neutralizing pro-democracy voices -- will curtail the clout of billionaires such as Li Ka-shing and Lee Shau-kee who used to wield ... ( read original story ...)

Prior to the dispatch of Britain’s aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth to the Far East the politicians and military chiefs behind the UK’s “tilt to the Indo-Pacific” could usefully visit Stornoway ... ( read original story ...)

The plan will also fund US manufacturing industries and help the elderly and disabled. The local market was also buoyed by a Hong Kong stock exchange proposal to attract more listings in the city. The ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong's Hang Seng index led gains among the region's major ... The headline large manufacturers index in the Bank of Japan's quarterly tankan business sentiment survey came in at 5, against ... ( read original story ...)

The arrests were part of "repeated actions to restrict the ability of Hong Kong voters to elect their representatives" over the past year, said the report. (Only the headline and picture of this ... ( read original story ...)

"We have a very tight schedule," Hong Kong lawmaker Horace Cheung said with regards to drawing up the legislative work agenda for the coming months. Cheung, the newly-elected deputy chairman of a ... ( read original story ...)

A stable environment is vitally important to the business activities of both local and overseas enterprises in Hong Kong,” he added. US, Japan among those slamming radical overhaul of Hong Kong ... ( read original story ...)

James Smith, the former head of Elliott Management Corp.’s operations in Hong Kong, is preparing to start his own hedge fund as he stages a comeback into the industry. ( read original story ...)

Secretary of State on Wednesday reaffirmed a determination made last year by the Trump administration that and remains undeserving of special treatment by the United States. ( read original story ...)