Category: BUSINESS

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 ...)

Hong Kong and mainland stocks opened slightly higher on Friday, the final trading session of 2016, shrugging off the declines in US equity markets. The Hang Seng Index opened up 0.13 per cent or 28 points at 21,818.91, and the Hang Seng China Enterprises ... ( read original story ...)

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 ...)

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 ...)

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REUTERS/Tyrone Siu BEIJING (Reuters) - Quoting a poem by the founder of Communist China Mao Zedong, China's government said on Wednesday that the efforts by Hong Kong and Taiwan independence supporters to link up were doomed to fail, as they would be ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited and The Stock Exchange ... The Board has been actively exploring other business opportunities in order to diversify the existing business of the Group and to explore new markets with growth potentials. ( read original story ...)

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 ...)

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 will also explore new markets outside of Singapore in 2017, starting with Hong Kong. It originally intended to expand by the end of 2016, but setting up its new facilities and streamlining its processes put those plans temporarily on hold. ( read original story ...)

“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 ...)

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 ...)

Linklaters served as adviser to the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd. on its long ... The Shenzhen bourse also consists of a startup board and a small-and-medium-sized enterprise board where technology companies and software developers tend to list. ( read original story ...)

Led by Hong Kong-listed fintech firm Credit China FinTech Holdings ... The FOF could also invest in startups directly. Xie Sha, a managing partner of the FOF, said the first two billion yuan could be raised very soon. “Despite the venture capital ... ( read original story ...)