“[T]he HMV Retail business in Hong Kong experienced drastic changes during the past few months,” Shiu said. “The HMV Retail business in Canada had closed all its 102 stores last year due to the impact ... ( read original story ...)
HMV winds up Hong Kong retail music business
HMV has announced it will wind up all its retail business in Hong Kong after a 25-year presence in the local music market. HMV Digital China Group Ltd said its indirectly wholly-owned subsidiary HMV R... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong insurers should broaden horizons to tap opportunities in Greater Bay Area
Hong Kong needs to leverage its connection with the Greater Bay Area and develop more insurtech products to compete with regional cities such as Singapore or Shanghai as a life insurance hub, accordin... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong needs cultural change if it’s to catch up with regional tech peers, start-up survey finds
The technology ecosystem in Hong Kong is in dire need of cultural change to catch up with regional peers as the city’s early-stage start-ups still struggle with limited access to private capital and t... ( read original story ...)
Make Hong Kong’s anticorruption laws extraterritorial to win back the confidence of the international business community, says lawmaker Kenneth Leung
A Hong Kong opposition lawmaker has called on the government to adopt a similar approach as the United States to make the city’s anticorruption laws extraterritorial so as to "win back” the confidence ... ( read original story ...)
How McKinsey Has Helped Raise the Stature of Authoritarian Governments
At the time, McKinsey’s client, Ping An, was preparing for an initial public offering in Hong Kong. The Wen family and its business associates became secret shareholders of Ping An, having acquired th... ( read original story ...)
Tanzania eyes Hong Kong money men as it touts itself as place Chinese businesses can use to dodge trade war tariffs
“There’s no way that we can hesitate to attract investment from China and Hong Kong, as a special administrative region,” he said. According to Wu, finding funding for those projects would be conducte... ( read original story ...)
Tips for building a global business from the founder of billion-dollar start-up Klook
Building a business is no easy feat, much less establishing one with ... across 100 countries each month and it ranks as one of the few start-ups born in Hong Kong to reach the much-coveted $1 billion ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong aims to build ILS market
Hong Kong is aiming to create an insurance-linked securities market ... to enable them to manage their expense ratios on reduced margins on the underlying business. “At the same time, there will be mo... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong ‘tycoons’ canteen’, Chinese restaurant Fook Lam Moon, celebrates 70 years in business
Fook Lam Moon, the Hong Kong restaurant known as the tycoons’ canteen, this year marks the 70th anniversary of founder Chui Fook-chuen launching his catering service. To mark the platinum anniversary, ... ( read original story ...)
After Discovery Bay: Hong Kong’s Cha Family Is Ramping Up Other Business Interests
Two of Shanghai's hottest new hotels, Middle House and the Sukhothai, are bundled in spiffy Taikoo Hui. This mall and office complex sprawls nearly 3.5 million square feet and includes a Tesla dealer ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s race with Singapore to be Asia’s data centre hub gets another leg up as final site sells at 45 per cent premium to valuation
Hong Kong’s biggest and last remaining piece of land designated for development into a data centre sold for a higher-than-expected HK$5.45 billion ((US$697 million) to Sunevision Holdings, sharpening ... ( read original story ...)
Investors are still optimistic about Hong Kong despite US-China trade war, says InvestHK director general
The start-ups employed a total of 9,548 people, a 51 per cent rise over 6,320 in 2017. Of the founders, 62 per cent were from Hong Kong, and 35 per cent from outside the city, of whom 17 per cent came ... ( read original story ...)
Want to fight racism in Hong Kong? Start young
Efforts towards the enhanced integration of ethnic minority groups into Hong Kong’s labour force only treat the symptoms but do not cure the disease. I am referring to the policies set forth on integr... ( read original story ...)