Hong Kong and China stocks thumped lower in early going

Hong Kong and mainland Chinese stocks kicked off the final full trading week of the year on a weaker note Monday following a slight retreat for US stocks on Friday. The Hang Seng Index was down 0.7 per cent or 154.14 points to 21,866.61 in early trading ... ( read original story ...)

Seven policy proposals for Hong Kong’s next chief executive

Early in 2012, when it was still unclear whether it would be CY Leung or Henry Tang who would get anointed as the Hong Kong government’s next chief executive, the South China Morning Post offered seven policy proposals for the new guy’s first day in ... ( read original story ...)

Beating inflation? HK people are well-versed

Soaring inflation - the bane of many developed economies, including Hong Kong, in the eighties and early nineties - was licked by globalization. The flood of inexpensive imports involving a vast variety of merchandise from emerging markets has helped ... ( read original story ...)

Chinese buying insurance in HK may face further curbs

SHANGHAI: Chinese residents buying insurance in Hong Kong will no longer be able to swipe their credit cards multiple times to get around previously imposed curbs intended to slow sales, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Purchases of ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong Airlines: business class for premium economy prices?

Hong Kong Airlines, the Chek Lap Kok-based member of the Hainan Airlines family, launched longhaul flights to Auckland in early November, and four weeks later I tried out their cheap business class to see how it was bedding in. Booking five months out, I ... ( read original story ...)

Sigfox is coming to Hong Kong

To learn more and subscribe, please click here. Sigfox and Thinxtra are working together to roll out Sigfox’s networks in Hong Kong, according to IoT Business News. The low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) provider will be leveraging the network operating ... ( read original story ...)

Recognition as tomorrow's entrepreneurs scoop awards

Eleven local entrepreneurs won the Hong Kong Young Entrepreneur Awards on Tuesday, with veteran entrepreneurs encouraging the SAR's younger population to explore business opportunities in Shenzhen and other parts of the Chinese mainland. Edmond Tang ... ( read original story ...)

Renting an office in NZ ten times cheaper than Hong Kong: JLL

"Renting premium office space in our two major business centres is 10 times cheaper than Hong Kong and more than four times cheaper than Shanghai. "In London's West End, you'd be looking at $2,968 per square metre per year, and $2,923 in New York. ( read original story ...)

HSMC Junzi Corporation Awards promotes Five Virtues of Junzi

HONG KONG, Dec. 14, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Hang Seng Management College (HSMC) held "Junzi Corporation Awards Presentation Ceremony 2016 cum Business Ethics Forum", an event with over four hundred guests for promoting the Confucian concept of "Junzi" and its ... ( read original story ...)

Beijing seeks applicants for Hong Kong's worst job

But that statement, however clumsy, reflects the Chinese Communist Party's approach to governing Hong Kong through a leader chosen by a cosy 1,200-person committee dominated by the business elite. Leung may have been a lightning rod, but his replacement ... ( read original story ...)