Category: BUSINESS

Buying of shares in their own companies by Hong Kong directors surged during the holiday-shortened week of February 12 to 15, after falling for three straight weeks, while selling plunged, based on filings to the Hong Kong stock exchange. A total of 18 ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong, the world’s most expensive real estate market, could see home prices rise by another 10 per cent this year after a 14 per cent gain last year, according to the head of sales at one of the city’s largest developers. The projection ... ( read original story ...)

The Director-General of Hong Kong’s investment promotion body is in the country for a five-day visit to engage with local business community and entrepreneurs. Stephen Phillips is the Director-General of Investment Promotion at Invest Hong Kong ... ( read original story ...)

Entersoft co-founder and CEO Mohan Gandhi receives his company's award from Dr Winnie Tang, Honorary Professor at the Department of Computer Science at Hong Kong University A Brisbane-based cyber security provider to the fintech industry has beaten ... ( read original story ...)

Melbourne has been selected as the partner for Business of Design Week 2018, Hong Kong's flagship architecture and design event and exhibition. ArchitectureAU reports on the 2017 program in anticipation of the focus on Melbourne’s creative sector in 2018. ( read original story ...)

SCMP, February 12 They say history repeats itself, and I believe it. Here is what the now defunct Far Eastern Economic Review had to say about the Hong Kong budget 50 years ago: “For the first time in living memory, Hongkong’s Financial Secretary ... ( read original story ...)

When Kuldip Uppal and his older brother Sukwinder were growing up in Jalandhar, in India’s Punjab state, they knew very little about Hong Kong. Their only window on the then British colony was the presents their father, Tarsem Uppal, brought back for ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong has just opened its first government-backed recycling facility for electronic waste as it seeks to lead Asia in tackling a growing global blight that is damaging the environment, threatening human health and lining the pockets of smugglers. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong stocks continued to rebound, enjoying bigger gains on the last full trading day before Lunar New Year. Mainland markets also moved higher. The benchmark Hang Seng Index gained 2.27 per cent, or 676.07 points, to 30,515.6 on Wednesday. ( read original story ...)

SuperCharger does not take any equity and the program gives selected startups access to partner institutions and firms, as well as regulators and legal experts. SuperCharger started in Hong Kong where it sought to leverage on Hong Kong’s traditional ... ( read original story ...)

The legendary Italian design house Pininfarina is famed for producing some of the most stunning and evocative car designs in the world, and now it's working with a Chinese startup business based in Hong Kong called Hybrid Kinetic Group (HKG). The idea is ... ( read original story ...)

The Consul General of Ireland in Hong Kong Peter Ryan said new routes by Cathay Pacific announced in August last year would open up significant regions in China to Ireland for tourism and business. Speaking at a briefing organised by a think tank on Asia ... ( read original story ...)

Women in Hong Kong still have a long way to go before they achieve gender equality in the workplace, despite improvements in the percentage of female workers in high positions over the past year. Just 29 per cent of management positions in Hong Kong are ... ( read original story ...)

The transformation of Hong Kong craft beer company Gweilo Beer, from humble beginnings operating in a spare bedroom to a purpose-built, 1,300-square-metre (14,000-square-foot), US$5 million brewery is almost in the can. Brewing trials began on February 8 ... ( read original story ...)