Hong Kong stocks end a volatile 2016 roughly flat

SHANGHAI: Hong Kong shares rose around 1 percent on Friday, but the main indexes ended 2016 near where they started after a volatile 12 months, punctuated by Britain's vote to leave the European Union and Donald Trump's triumph in the U.S. presidential ... ( read original story ...)

Flight Test: Hong Kong to Auckland on Cathay Pacific's A350

If you'd like to see how the 1 per cent fly, then business class on Cathay's new A350 is the way to go. THE AIRLINE Cathay Pacific THE ROUTE Hong Kong to Auckland, New Zealand. THE PLANE Airbus A350-900, the world's newest aircraft. The aircraft carries ... ( read original story ...)

Gigi Chao has a head for business and a heart for LGBT rights

HONG KONG From her 49th-floor office at Central Plaza, Hong Kong's third-tallest building, Gigi Chao juggles three roles as a business executive, philanthropist and one of Asia's most prominent gay rights activists. Although her billionaire father ... ( read original story ...)

Blackouts – the answer's in the tank

Hong Kong startup Ampd Energy has launched an energy storage system called Ampd Silo uses that can store electricity when power is available and use it when there's an outage. The company's system aims to function by connecting with the power grid ... ( read original story ...)

Sequoia Capital's Neil Shen knows how to pick a winner

Among the new tenants in one nondescript industrial building is Hong Kong X-Tech Startup Platform, which Shen created earlier in 2016 to kick-start innovation in the city, partnering with a group of Hong Kong-based professors and the heads of its top three ... ( read original story ...)

The Startup Bringing Insurance To Myanmar

“It’s easier to imagine the benefit insurance will bring to a place like Myanmar, or Cambodia, or the Philippines by thinking about what happens if you remove it from a place like Hong Kong or Singapore,” Mathews said. “The first thing is, families ... ( read original story ...)

Emerging digital solutions to an ‘age-old’ challenge

China in particular is ripe for a revolution in this field, with a poll revealing 20 percent of Chinese used a fitness monitor of some sort.[2] For healthtech startups, Hong Kong is as good as it gets as a launchpad into the Mainland market. ( read original story ...)