Hong Kong remains on heightened alert after the number of Covid-19 infections climbed back into triple digits. ( read original story ...)
Finance chief hopeful of Hong Kong’s economic recovery in second half of 2021
Paul Chan, financial secretary of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government, said Tuesday that he is hopeful that Hong Kong's economic recovery will find root in the second half ... ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus: with higher unemployment figures on the horizon, Hong Kong businesses are bracing for a gloomy start to 2021
Industry leaders are predicting almost across the board that unemployment in their sectors will get worse before it gets better. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong has no alternative to ‘laam chau’ and Beijing’s intervention
Legal scholars Chen Duanhong and Benny Tai Yiu-ting may be exact opposites, but both recognise that the city’s social and political crises run so deep that they cannot be resolved by normal legal or c ... ( read original story ...)
Clients of Hong Kong law firm need speedy justice
Closure of one of Hong Kong’s leading conveyancing companies is causing thousands of innocent people financial pain as they desperately try to get their money back from frozen accounts. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s Ocean Park Doesn’t Want to be a Theme Park any More
The Hong Kong government will provide another $361 million (HK$2.8 billion) to rescue city’s troubled Ocean Park, which has seen losses increased by the effect of COVID-19. The venture is to be ... ( read original story ...)
China’s Kuaishou Hong Kong IPO could value firm at about $60bln -sources
Chinese online short video company Kuaishou will open the books for its Hong Kong initial public offering (IPO) next Monday to raise at least $5 billion in a deal that could value the company at ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong fourth wave: restaurants, beauty parlours demand immediate easing of Covid-19 rules to prevent onslaught of closures, lay-offs
Restaurants, beauty parlours plead with Hong Kong government to allow them to open up their premises, after seemingly endless social-distancing curbs. ( read original story ...)
Alibaba Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund Picks Jumpstarter 2021 Top 10 Finalists
Meet the 10 finalists who will vie for two grand prizes totaling US$4 million in investment at the grand finale of its Jumpstarter 2021 competition. ( read original story ...)
How Cyberport start-ups innovate to help Hongkongers adapt to Covid-19 pandemic
Local companies Find Solution AI, Roborn and Bowtie answer needs in education, health management and safety as part of the ‘Braving the Epidemic’ campaign ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s Ocean Park to slash operating expenses with new dining and entertainment zone, individual charges for some attractions
Under the new plan, the struggling park will offer more than half its 1 million sq ft to outside service providers, sources say. ( read original story ...)
In Hong Kong, a new party’s calls for stability only raise suspicions
They are businessmen, born in mainland China, who serve on top advisory committees to Beijing and profess patriotism for the motherland. One recently traveled to an obscure village in southeastern ... ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus: Hong Kong faces new unemployment high, but finance chief warns worse may follow Lunar New Year
I am afraid that more business closures and lay-offs may occur after the Lunar New Year,” he added. In 2020, the number of bankruptcy applications surged 6.6 per cent year on year to nearly 8,700 ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong-listed Chinese restaurant operator Jiumaojiu is betting on younger consumers for growth in 2021
Guangzhou-based restaurants operator Jiumaojiu International Holdings is pivoting to younger consumers, as it emerges from the economic dislocation caused by the coronavirus pandemic. ( read original story ...)